Sunday, July 9, 2023

09.07.23 Femundsenden - Søre Osen

Final stage of this 4-day ride to the Southern part of Osensjøen, where Jan Henrik has bought a summer house.


A pretty easy ride today, with only two not very steep ascents. Sunny weather.


Following the road south past Engerdal along the beautiful Lake Engeren.

Lake Engeren

Past a small hydro power plant, Hylla from 1945, 2.7MW. Of course I’m over average interested in this, but it illustrates an interesting feature: the highly distributed character of Norwegian power production, compared with few large plants as in most other countries.

Hylla hydropower plant


Firewood is popular here. And necessarily, this is a very cold area in winter

From here, I took provincial road 251 towards Osensjøen.

Wild strawberries in the roadside. Not very good unfortunately.

Rather special power poles in this area, different from other places in Norway. I believe it is 10 kV, less common than 22kV
Finally down Osensjøen, observing wind turbiner for the second time on my 400km trip. Norway is not exactly peppered with these as some claim.

Osensjøen and Raskiftet wind power plant

Finally arriving at Southern Osensjøen. Great trip, although I must admit that this part of Norway is rather monotonous 🙂.

Relaxing evening after a swim in the lake

Statistics: total distance 114km, total time 7:32, cycling time 05:58, average speed 19.2 km/h, total ascent 667m, net descent 215m




2 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/7/23 14:54

    Well done!

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  2. Anonymous16/7/23 07:42

    Jeg leser at du trekker samme konklusjon som Live og jeg gjorde etter å ha syklet Rendalen. Dette er en del av Norge som egner seg best for de som synes trær er det helt store.

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