i Norge - 3. dag

I spent the morning prepping for our trip this weekend to Telemark (reserving the car, the hotel in Vrådel) and next week to Deutschland (just reserving the car for 3 days). But who wants to spend all day in front of a computer!

Hopptårn

Hopped on the train in Mortensrud and headed downtown. It's already 11AM, which is suboptimal. Plan for the day is to get off at Frognersetteren high above Oslo and hike down to the Sognsvann. "Vann" is the Norsk for water and in this case it connotates a lake. I brought my suit along to swim in the lake, although all the pics online are of people in wetsuits.

Kanutte says getting off at Holmenkollen to see the ski jump is a must, so this was the first stop after I switched to 1 line downtown. The Frognersetteren line goes up and up! The houses up here have beautiful views down to the sea. The sign at Holmenkollen says it's 278 moh.

Kanutte was right. Hopptårnet is the sort of insane thing that makes the rest of human endeavor seem dominated by fear. On this thing you can have none. Apparently Tor-Helge climbed it 24 times in row during the summer. It was a competition. I took the easy way and paid $15 for an elevator ride to the top. The views at the top were incredible. Definitely look at the pictures in the link at the top of the page. I was able to transcend fear into exhilaration. After the ride back down I enjoyed a Lakse sandwich at the café and a Huse apple. The fancy makes eating more than just a delay on my journey.

Back on the train to Frognersettern there were a lot more people on the train. I wondered if it was kids out of school, but it was only 2 o'clock. Up, up, up we went. Getting off at Frognersetteren I discovered it must be a biking field trip of some sort.