Last year, I embarked on an ambitious quest.

Lately, I’ve been revisiting the journey and reflecting on it — and I figured I’d share the experience with you all.

The quest was simple in nature.
Travel from Nordkapp to Bergen.
On a mountain bike.

Simple enough, right?

Wrong.

This wasn’t my first time in Norway. A couple of years earlier, I hiked the Jotunheimstien trail from Oslo to Gjendesheim. That trip went well — rough weather in the south during August, but still manageable. And the scenery toward the end? Simply stunning.

At Liomsetra [ a serviced DNT hytta ] we met an elderly man who serviced the hut. We talked for a bit and he told me about a woman, which was traveling from Nordkapp all the way to Oslo.
How? She was running.
And I was like, damn. I wanna do that to. But I ain't much of a runner. But I do like cycling. And I already know what to expect from the famed Norwegian weather.

Oh how arrogant I was. How naive.

August 2024, I was at Nordkapp. The weather was .. well wet and windy. But also sunny and relatively peaceful.
Until I reached Vesteralen and Lofoten that is. That's when I experienced, how Norway looks like most of the year.

That’s also when I began to understand something deeper — how the landscape shapes the people here. It’s a hard land. It makes strong, hard people.

The rest is history.
But if you’ve ever thought about cycling across Norway, maybe this will nudge you in the right direction.
Spoiler alert, be ready to suffer in paradise.

Here are my favorite photos from the trip.
And if you're curious how the whole thing played out, I put together a short video montage of the journey:
https://youtu.be/TMIb7CAyRVk

by salviamasta

12 comments

  1. Fantastic! Ok first, exposed feet in the snow 😭, talk about being strong. How long did it take what were the hardest parts and were you mostly camping along the way?

  2. I wanna do a trip like this once in my life next coming years. Can you tell me around how long the trip took time wise. And how you set up the trip? Like how much money you saved up for this?

  4. I sold my bike to a pastor for 5000, and he actually rode it from Nordkapp to Lindesnes.

    I’m viewing your video now, thanks for sharing.

  6. Wait, hold on. You rode through snow with a hecking sandal?

  7. What in the actual frozen hell is going on with third pic? How long can you bike like that without having to amputate something?

  8. I cycled Kirkenes – Oslo in 2013, one of the greatest experiences of my life. “Suffer in paradise” – couldn’t put it better myself. 🙂 Well done!

  10. What bike brand is that? This would make for a killer ad..

  11. No way! I literally live like 15 minutes away from the seventh photo! I funnily worked in that store behind the cabins ahahaha

  12. Did you manage to get through all the tunnels by bike? Especially the ones with heavy traffic?
    Either way, congratulations to this epic journey!

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