Loen , mountain area, valley/river area

Glacier walks on the Bødalsbreen glacier – an exotic experience on the blue ice

Glacier walks on the Bødalsbreen glacier – an exotic experience on the blue ice Photo: Briksdal Breføring

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Glacier walks on the Bødalsbreen glacier – an exotic experience on the blue ice Photo: Briksdal Adventure

Glacier walks on the Bødalsbreen glacier – an exotic experience on the blue ice Photo: Briksdal Brebøring

Glacier walks on the Bødalsbreen glacier – an exotic experience on the blue ice Photo: Briksdal Breføring

Glacier walks on the Bødalsbreen glacier – an exotic experience on the blue ice

Level of difficulty

Medium

Duration

6 hours

Landscape

Mountain
glacier

Guided walk

Season:

June
August - September

Loen

Glacier walks on the Bødalsbreen glacier – an exotic experience on the blue ice

Sande Camping
6789 Loen

+47 57 87 68 05

+47 57 87 68 08

post@briksdalsbre.no

www.briksdal-adventure.com

A fantastic nature experience for the whole family, where you walk through a gentle valley from Bødal summer pasture farm up onto the glacier. On the way to the glacier, you cross a river and streams in virtually untouched nature, and a guide tells you about the landscape and history of the area. This walk is suitable for people in average physical shape from age eight upwards.

All necessary glacier equipment is included. Walkers must bring warm clothes and a packed lunch for a day outdoors. The organisers can supply footwear on request.

The meeting place is at Sande Camping in Lodalen – an approx. 10 to 15-minute drive from Loen up the Lodalen valley – where the walk starts every day at 10.00. Here you meet a guide who provides information about the walk. You then drive to the car park in Bødal in your own vehicles and from there you walk with the guide to the glacier. In some instances, our guides can pick up guests at the Joker shop in Loen, right beside Hotel Alexandra (this must be arranged in advance). The glacier guiding company can organise transport for bigger groups.

Glacier walks are organised every day from 1 June to 30 September, and the trip takes five-six hours in all, with about three hours on the glacier. The routes on the glacier can vary from day to day, depending on how the glacier’s formation changes. In the event of extreme changes in the weather, the walk can be cancelled at short notice, but this is not common. There are 10 to 12 participants per guide/rope team.

There are many accommodation options in Loen and the Lodalen valley – from first-class hotels to holiday houses and simple camping chalets. Sande Camping, the starting point for the trip, is open all year and has cabins, apartments and a campsite. Call the tourist information to book: (+47) 57 87 40 53

Glacier walks, which are organised for minimum two people, must be booked in advance.

Facilities

Season
- august
- june
- september
- christmas
Activities
- guiding
- glacier hiking
Nature and terrain
- hilly
- national park
- glacier
Age limit
- children
Language
- English
- Norwegian
- Swedish
Grading
- medium
Special
- mountain area
- valley/river area
Duration
- 6 hours

Please follow these safety tips when you go hiking and walking 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: 21/05/2013 Source: Reisemål Stryn & Nordfjord

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