Back down the mountain

Claiming my bunk.

This is where we dry off all our booties and such!

The front room has piles of gear constantly accumulating and then vanishing.

A dedicated room for hang-drying your wet ski clothes.

Shoes off in the lodge, please!

I assume these trails are a lot more popular when it’s summer.

My favorite part of the lodge decoration: The shelf of wooden shoes.

This very lodge, nearly 100 years ago.

A pretty cool place to stay!

A lake called Bøvertonvatnet! Let’s have a closer look.

The edge of a large area of Bøvertonvatnet covered in irregular ice chunks.

A table-sized raft of partially frozen water, near the shore of Bøvertonvatnet.

Shards of semi-frozen lake water on the shore of Bøvertonvatnet.

Inspecting a chunk of semi-frozen lake water from Bøvertonvatnet.

Detail of a chunk of semi-frozen lake water from Bøvertonvatnet.

A chunk of semi-frozen lake water from Bøvertonvatnet.

A chunk of semi-frozen lake water in Bøvertonvatnet.

Closeup of lake ice on the rain cover of the bike.

Lake ice on my rain cover.

It’s Elveseter!! What is this place??

Amusing art under the eaves of Elveseter.

Fancy stained glass in the entrance to the Elveseter main building.

The Elveseter front desk.

Local history and doodads in Elveseter.

Inside Elveseter.

I am amused by that connecting hallway, and that carving on the roof!

Clay artwork of Odin in Elveseter.

Here’s Elveseter, in case you don’t know where you’re standing.

Looks like my bike route took me around the edge of Jotunheimen National Park.