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Wanderung zum Talkessel Sorbmegorsa
Tour / hiking / bike / ski / Hiking
Before the gravel road at the end of the flat part of Kåfjorddalen rises steeply into the mountains, there is a large parking lot for hikers. Here, several hiking routes between one and six kilometers in length are offered on a hiking board. With the strains of a 19 km tour still in our bones, we choose a hiking destination only about 2 km away: the Sorbmegorsa basin in the Ørndalen Canyon. It was supposed to be a short but very strenuous tour. Just 100 meters behind the hiking car park - you have just crossed the Kåfjordelva, which is still narrow here, on a wooden bridge and inspected a small rest area with a fireplace - a signpost points to Ankerlia, which is almost 600 meters away. The ruins of an old copper smelter from the beginning of the 20th century, well documented in Norwegian and English and designated as an open-air museum, await us here. In the following, several signposts show the radial branching of the hiking trail network. Sorbmegorsa in Ørndalen is given as one kilometer from here. The path, which now leads through sparse forest with mosses, blueberries and small birches, ends abruptly after 300 meters on a slope of what at first glance appears to be a waterless river bed at the exit of the Ørndalen Canyon. Climbing down onto the large, round-washed stones, you can now clearly hear the gurgling of the water below you. Jumping or balancing from stone to stone, you enter the canyon, the walls of which rise steeply to the left and right. At the beginning, the water sometimes comes out and you have to cross it on stones. Then the boulders become so large that you can no longer see or hear anything about them. The necessary jumps and balancing acts are also getting bigger and bigger. After 700 meters, the gorge widens into a basin. Here we find the sign wedged in stones with the inscription Sorbmegorsa/Ørndalen, which is completely unspectacular. Behind it, a tongue of snow, undercut by the water, blocks the canyon. We still dare to get to it and look at the other end of the valley basin at huge rock faces that come together at the foot to within a few meters. Every now and then you can hear stones rumbling down the rock face in the distance or hitting the valley floor in free fall. Now the meaning of the sign at the beginning of the tour becomes clear to us, which urges caution and advises that any movement off-road will be at your own risk. Reason conquers curiosity and calls for conversion.
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9147 Kåfjorddalen KÃ¥fjorddalsvegen
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Things worth seeing around the starting point
Wanderparkplatz Kåfjorddalen
Great trail parking lot at the end of Kåfjorddalen open January - December [ click for more information ]