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Gaustatoppen Photo: Stegarud Foto

Gaustatoppen Photo: Ove Bergersen

Gaustatoppen Photo: Espen Halvorsen

Gaustatoppen Photo: Asbjørn Torgersen

Gaustatoppen Photo: Hans-Dieter Fleger

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Effort level

Challenging

Duration

5 hours

Landscape

Mountain

Season:

June - September

Rjukan

Gaustatoppen

Stavsro
3660 Rjukan

+47 35 08 05 50

+47 35 08 05 59

info@visitrjukan.com

www.visitrjukan.com

The best place to start off on a trek up to the top is from Stavsro (1,173 metres). The car park here has a kiosk and toilets.

The trail is well marked with red T's all the way up and it is approx. 4 km one way. It takes most people about two hours to reach the summit and a little less on the way down.

You might find stones with wave patterns on them from when the mountain was at the bottom of a long lost ocean

Facilities

Season
- august
- july
- june
- september
Nature and terrain
- stony
- mountains
Grading
- challenging
Duration
- 5 hours

Please follow these safety tips when you go hiking in Norway.

1. Be prepared
Be sufficiently experienced, fit and equipped for your intended trip.

2. Leave word of your route
Many cabins, hotels and other lodgings have tour notification boxes in which you may put a written notice of your planned route

3. Be weather-wise
You should always be alert to forecasts of bad weather, yet not rely completely on forecasts of good weather.

4. Be equipped for bad weather and frost
Always take a rucksack and proper mountain gear.

5. Learn from the locals
Local people can often tell you about avalanche trails, wind and snow conditions, and the safest routes.

6. Use a map and compass
Always have and know how to use a map and compass.

7. Do not go solo
If you venture out alone, there is nobody to give you first aid or notify a rescue service in an emergency.

8. Turn back in time - sensible retreat is no disgrace
If conditions deteriorate so much that you doubt you can attain your goal, turn around and return.

9. Conserve energy and build a snow shelter if necessary
The stronger the wind, the tougher the walking/skiing. Suit your speed to the weakest member of the party.

Find more detailed safety tips in the Norwegian Mountain Code.

Last updated: 5/15/2013 Source: Visitrjukan AS

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