Up to the Ice
Norway · Gravel

Up to the Ice

A brutal, beautiful gravel drag to the foot of a hanging glacier.

58 km
Distance
1
Day
1450 m
Climbing
Hard
Grade
Gravel
Surface
Jun–Sep
Best season
All routes

A single brutal, beautiful day: a relentless gravel climb from the fjord to the foot of the Folgefonna glacier, and the strange calm at the top before the long descent home.

Elevation

0 km ▲ 1420 m 58 km

The line

Day by day

Morning

Fjord to the treeline

Switchbacks out of the village; the gradient never really relents.

22 km
Midday

The high traverse

Above the trees, gravel turns rough; the glacier fills the horizon.

14 km
Afternoon

The long descent

Earn it all back in one fast, rattling drop to the sea.

22 km

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