Hike to Bessegen

Hike over and along the Besseggen mountain is one of the popular hikes in Norway. Besseggen is a part of the Jothunheimen mountains, one of the biggest mountain ranges inside Norway. These mountains are surrounded by beaufitul lakes and scenic valleys. The hike along besseggen w/o a stop usually takes about 6 hours. It is a quite a steep hike in parts and long stretches on top of the mountain with great views all around of the mountains, lakes and glaciers. The hike starts from Gjende and ends in memurubu. The mountain itself is between two lakes called Gjende and besvatnet. Its quite a view when you walk along the ridge sticking out between the two lakes. I think it is one of the most interesting hikes I have done in Norway so far. Challenging and tiring, yet satisfying.
Day 1: We had a group of friends who drove to Valdres, where our company has a cabin. We stayed over the night. Cabin experience is something one must really experience in Norway. When you drive along these mountains all you see is tons of cabins everywhere. Its almost as if every Norwegian has a cabin for summer and winter retreats. They are such a nature loving people. Anyway, we woke up early got ready and went to Gjende to take the ferry to memurubu and start our hike back to Gjende. You could do otherway around but we didnt want to risk missing the ferry on the way back. It was steep hike from Memurubu all along to the top and I was the last one left behind trying to catch up with the other fit guys. But i wasnt complaining and everytime I stopped to catch my breath there was always this fantastic views on both side of the mountains. Snow capped Jothunheimen mountain ranges all around and the green color of the Gjende lake was just mesmerizing. However it was very cold that day and windy as well. It became more windy as we reached went closer to the top. Then we came to this small ridge sticking out in between the two lakes and it was so beautiful. Green color of gjende lake due to the glacier runoff containing clay on one side and the blue color of the Besvannet lake on the other side was just beautiful. Then we climbed the rocks and went to the top of the Besseggen mountain and walked the trail along the top. We stopped here and there to take pictures, catch our breaths and to replenish our salts and energy. Finally almost at the day break we reached Gjende, where we caught the ferry. We were so tired at the end of it, but we truly enjoyed the hike. We had a drink in the coffee shop and went back to our cabin for the night. The guys were treated with a fantastic curry for the night, courtesy Yours truly!
Day 2: Since we were done with the tough hike on saturday, we decided to take it easy on sunday so we could have enough time to drive back home. So we decided to go to Bitihorn mountain very close to Beitostolen, a ski resort near Valdres. It was nothing spectacular, but a small mountain with so clearly marked trail. So we had to kinda figure out the directions to the top. We reached in about 2 hours time. Spent some time in the top, ate our packed sandwiches and rested for a while. On the way back, we decided to take a bit of adventuruous route down and started making our own trail down the mountain along the bushes. it was actually nice since we were trying to race each other to see who reached the bottom first. All in all it was quite an interesting hike and best 2 days of hiking.

Check out the photos from the hike.

Some links:
http://www.besseggen.net/engelsk/index.htm

ferry timings
http://www.gjende.no/en/rutetider.htm