Unsupported Bikepacking through Norwegian highlands and fjords. Roughly 1000 km / 16.000 m
Starting and finishing in Tolga. Accreditation and briefing Saturday 8th July /// Official Start Sunday 9th July /// Time limit Saturday 15th July.
The Bright Midnight is a bikepacking event which shows you a lot of what Norway has to offer. Start and finish in a little mountain city called Tolga. The route then goes through highlands – endless gravel roads in the mountains, conecting all those summer farms up there.
It then eventually leads to the fjords, goes along them, over some mountain passes, visitig some iconic cities like Geiranger and eventually turning back in to highlands through some national parks. It total about 1000 km with about 16 000 meters of elevation gain.
The Bright Midnight in an unsupported bikepacking through 1000km of Norwegian landscapes, woven together with time. Experience the barren tundra, dramatic fjords and mystical forests, climbing over 16,000m under the bright watch of the midnight sun.
The route starts in Tolga, a city nestled on the river Glåma and the doorway to the Forollhogna National Park, iconic in its vast tundra. Gravel paths and fast flowing roads follow the sun west towards the glistening tarmac switchbacks of Trollstigen, where the high mountains and the raw nature of Norway loom ever closer with each pedal stroke.
Time will carry you into the fjordlands, descending steep cliff faces shaped by millenia old glacier journeys. Arriving in the fjord village of Geiranger with painted houses and graphic architecture bordering sea inlets, pause and take a moment to reflect on passes conquered and roads travelled.
The journey must now return east towards the morning sun through Reinheimen and Breheimen National Parks. Transporting weary legs from the coastal waters into mountain rivers bursting with fresh water, and lakes sculpted by a past long since forgotten. Treeless vistas point the way to the final paths into Knutshø returning to the tundra and the source of this journey.
A voyage of past, present and future, intertwined into one connected moment.
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