norway in summer, or never leave home without your exposure suit...

a simple ride, about 38 km - hey, this is summer, ok? - so i go in shorts and no more extra gear besides a rain-shell. Suddenly rain starts falling, then pouring. The temperature drops and i begin to feel the hands like in a ski run with no gloves. I look at the temperature and it's 6 degrees! Then it drops even more, and we look on the other side of the lake and we see this:

it's not only raining, it's SNOWING!!! (laugh!)

Cycling in Aalesund...it's Summer - although Summer here is quite erratic, like an old man's mind on a half-forgotten errand. We are at the epicenter of the fjords (forget New Zealand, THIS IS the real thing!), so there are just no bike trails in the real sense of it. There are "paths" which people take walking, with alarming levels of difficulty and most of them just plainly uncyclable. But ...

Here's the first try...

This is the map produced by the gps. As you can see in the graph of the altimeter, changes in altitude can be quite interesting.

the views are much more alarming than the drops of altitude or the rocky path. There is Sea Out There, mottled with little scattered islands. Vikings had to be vikings...not much chance to be anything else...

to be continued