WalkingWomen very special Walking Week in Norway 2027

SUMMARY

Dates: Friday September 3rd to Friday September 10th 2027  7 nights/8 days

Guides: Wenche B Løfsgaard, our local guide, with a team of guides to offer you Goat 1 to 4 walks. This is a bit of everything holiday and each day you can choose a walk to suit how you feel. You will be briefed each evening before choosing your next day’s walk.

Walking Grade: A bit of everything with Guides offering different Goat level walks. One day you might fancy a Goat 1 , another a Goat 3 – this is a flexible trip.Which ever walk you choose expect to be out all day. We hope for picnic weather!

If you would like to join,but not walk that is ok. Or if your partner/friend would like to join but isn’t a hiker. Then that’s ok. There are plenty of opportunities to simply chill and relax or take part in yoga, aqua aerobics, horse riding or the other activities on offer.

Base: Dalseter Mountain Hotel – a family run mountain hotel with the wonderful Grethe who gives you a warm Norwegian welcome and is a fantastic host. Breakfast is buffet style and gives you a real taste of Norway. All meals are in the hotel restaurant. There is a swimming pool and a sauna to relax in after your long days in the outdoors.

Dalseter is approx 3.5 hours from Oslo Gardermoen Airport. An airport Transfer is arranged for you -a coach to your hotel and return. Arrivals plan for a 15.00 transfer and departures 9am transfer for flights after 14.00.

If you prefer to travel by train it is a lovely journey with the nearest railway station to Dalseter at Vinstra – it is a direct train from Oslo Gardermoen to Lillehammer and then a change to Vinstra. The train service is efficient in Norway and you can book on the VY national railway App NORWAY TRAINS

Arrival: Our airport transfer will leave Oslo Gardermoen airport at 15.00 on Saturday September 3rd. Please book flights to arrive by 14.00. There is a cafe if you arrive earlier where we will gather.

Departure: leave the hotel after breakfast on the 13th to arrive at the airport at 12 noon. Please book flights to depart after 14.00.

If you travel outside the transfer times you can use public transport and we can advise.

We can recommend a stay in Oslo before or afterwards. If you are interested let us know and we can help arrange it and put people together in the same hotel.

Price: £TBC per person fully inclusive:

• Ensuite accommodation with a view
• Breakfast and dinner at the hotel. Picnic lunches made by guests from breakfast. Please bring thermos flasks for tea/coffee/hot juice and sandwich wraps or boxes for salads,sandwiches ..
• Use of pool and sauna
• Local english speaking guiding
• Group Airport transfer by coach from Oslo and return

Not included:

• Travel to Norway
• Additional  drinks from the bar

If you bring a friend/partner and share a room there is £ discount per person. Price per person is £tbc 

Watch our video below to get a taste of this holiday…

DETAILS

We have had many,many holidays at Dalseter over the years and we feel the time is right to have an exclusive WalkingWomen get together at one of our favourite hotels.

The walking is unique as you rarely pass a person. It’s peaceful, it’s beautiful and you can simply put on your boots and walk from the door.

This is the time to experience the wide open spaces, the uncrowded mountains and what Espedalen and the late summer has to offer. It is said that there is nothing better than a holiday in the Norwegian mountains. We are usually the only ones walking in wonderful solitary landscapes – a very special experience.

The highest point is Ruben at 1517 m above sea level. We will hike here to see the fabulous mountain views across the Jotunheimen and Rondane National Parks.

Walks will be full days with plenty of rests. Our guide team is highly experienced and will share their knowledge with you. There are many opportunities to do both long stretching walks and shorter ones – all giving you wonderful views and experiences.

There are also opportunities to get closer to the lake and swim if the weather permits. To swim in the mountain lakes is exhilarating!

If you are a beer lover there is a local brewery in the neighbouring hotel. To sit and drink beer made of alpine herbs and mountain water is something that you cannot do anywhere else in the world. This beer is not exported so you can only drink it here.

This is a one off very special holiday where WalkingWomen has exclusive use of the Dalseter Hoyfellshotell. 

ITINERARY

The itinerary is to give you an idea of some of the walks – walks will be finalised depending on weather and at the discretion of the guides. A more detailed choice of walks will be available in your information brochure and you will have a briefing each day to help you choose the walk right for you.

Day 1 Arrival and settle in 

16.00 Welcome and an introduction to your week.
​19.00 Dinner served.

Some of the walks with more to be offered…

The peak of Rundho at 1268m 6-7 km total,  300m ascent and descent . A gentle introduction through birch forest and easy mountain terrain.

 ​​Bingsbu at 1152 m 11-12 km total,  200 – 400 m ascent and descent to one of the winter warming huts the hotel runs together with their neighbour Ruten Mountain lodge.
There is an option to include the peak of Sprenpiggen (1329 m)

​Storhøliseter (970 m) 11 km total,  200 – 400 m ascent.

We will walk down to the Lake Breidsjøenhike and through the forest up to the old Fredrikseter summer farm. Beautiful scenic views as we pass the small lake at the top and head down to where we are collected with a minibus and transported back to the hotel (appr 45 minutes drive)

Historical walk 13 km total,  200 m ascent and descent

This day we mostly stay in the lower areas and hike around the lake Breidsjøen.  We get closer to local history as we look at Verksodden, where we see Espedalen mountain church (1974) , the unique graveyard and the remains from the mining period. (1850 – 1870’s).  Before returning to Dalseter we will have a short visit to the “Elgtårn” – a unique accommodation tower in Espedalen.

​​Ruten (1 517 m) massif 13 km total,  600 m ascent and descent located between Espedalen and Gudbrandsdalen, and is a popular beginner’s peak hike for both adults and children – a great trip in summer as well as in autumn.
Beautiful views of 360 degrees when we reach the cairn at the top. We take another path back in beautiful landscape down to Bingsbu. Familiar hike from Bingsbu back to Dalseter as this is where we walked up on day 2.

​Heidalsmuen (1 745 m ) 1 hour drive from Dalseter. A gentle walk through forests and open mountain.

Day 7 departure after  approx 9am.