Hard hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: January 16, 2026

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Includes segments that may be dangerous

Parts of this route comprise highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 1.31 km for 1.24 km

After 3.88 km for 36 m

After 5.25 km for 1.24 km

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Parking

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2.19 km

View From Gaustatoppen Ridge

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Fantastic views from Gaustatoppen's broad mountain ridge – on clear days you can see about a sixth of all of Norway! Take a break here and enjoy the spectacular panorama before continuing towards the summit.

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2.47 km

Trail Junction to Gaustatoppen Summit

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From here, you can not only reach the summit, but also the more easily accessible, broad ridge of Gaustatoppen. The view from here also rewards the climb through the scree.

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Gaustatoppen is several hundred meters higher than the surrounding mountains, and during the last ice age the peak rose above the ice sheet like a nunatak. Frost heaving over thousands …

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7.79 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.06 km

2.53 km

141 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

3.09 km

2.53 km

2.00 km

141 m

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