This picture (opens in new window) is showing the gps track of my bike ride today, or at least the most important part which was from where I started at Skillingsfors using my mtb riding forest roads back home to Norway. Skipping the last part which was only boring transport along the road back to Løken. I’ve also added some numbers which I will refer to when commenting the pictures.
1) Just a picture of a random part of the road right after I had left Skillingsfors, nice place.
2) View of Askesjön
3) Askesjön, the sign just before I turned away from the road and headed for the forest.
4) Headed for the forest right next to the car
5) Nice forest road, not that wet, kinda strange considering the heavy rain the days before today.
6) Only part I had to push the bike, a bit to steep and slippery.
7) Flat out…
8) Gravel road almost all the way to the border.
9) Not sure what has happened to the elk, but it was a lot of fur here
10) Stopped by the cabin which is on the edge of Krokvatnet on the Swedish side looking towards north. I need to get up there to cross the border.
10) A bit worried, all the time it is pretty much water in the lake, just look at the floating dock.
10) Not exactly mint conditions for riding my bike, but I only needed to carry it for about 300 meters.
11) Looking cross the border towards Norway.
11) And now I’ve crossed the border and trying to remember Sweden … by taking a picture of the last view of the country
11) If ever coming from Norway and want to follow in my footsteps (bike trail), just look for this tower and take hard left just after you have passed it.
11) The border is in the stream
The forest road in Norway had quite large rocks, making my ride slow going both up and downhill.
The rocks in a much closer view
The forest road ended (or starts, it all depends) just about 7-800 meters after the war memorial along national highway #21 heading for Rømskog.
Find some more tips at Terrengsykkel.no (in Norwegian)