Trollstigen

View over the Isterdal of Uitsikten (Panorama )

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The Trollstigen (Norwegian Troll Head ) is one of the most popular tourist routes in Norway, about 20 km south of Åndalsnes.

General

The Trollstigen is part of the provincial road 63 and leads from Isterdal in eleven hairpin bends with about twelve percent incline up to the pass. She overcomes a height difference of 405 m and reached 700 moh. Subsequently, the road reaches an altitude of 850 m. Halfway, the road, which is part of the Golden Route, also has a impressive rushing waterfall, the 320 meter high Stigfossen. The pass road is framed by the mountains Bispen (Eng. "bishop", 1,450 m), Kongen (Eng. "king", 1,614 m) and Dronninga (Ger. "Queen ", 1,701 m). The track is only open in summer weather conditions and can be driven from about mid- May or early June to late September.

The road was released on July 31, 1936, after eight years of construction of King Haakon VII of the traffic. She is still only a few meters wide, sometimes almost one lane, so you have to dodge oncoming vehicles. Because of the rugged terrain, there is little opportunity to stop. Only the top of the beginning of a high valley can sit out on a large parking lot or stop off at the Trollstigen Fjellstue. A walk of a few hundred meters brings the visitor to Utsikten, a vantage point from which you can overlook the entire course of the road.

Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists drive over the Trollstigen ( 529,800 in 2004). A lot of money is invested in the protection against falling rocks and avalanches. In the summer of 2005 after a rock fall a part of the track for 16 million Norwegian kroner (about two million euros ) was renewed. Not only the valley section got a new route, but also some characteristic curves were defused. The overall impression of the road is taken to preserve.

Others

Trollstigen is the set of a section from the ski movie Seven Sunny Days by Matchstick Productions. In the portal object Springer fly wingsuit over the mountain pass.

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