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Route 6
Gloppedalsura and Byrkjedal
The route is defined as extreme
Routes defined as extreme are suitable for people who are familiar with demanding parties and have extensive experience.Tid
5:30 timer
Length
80 km
Popularity
7.5 av 10
On this tour you can experience one of Norway's best salmon rivers, Gloppedalsura, which is Northern Europe's largest stone quarry, and Byrkjedalstunet.
The tour starts in Egersund, where you take RV 44 towards Tengesdal and turn off onto FV 51.
Here you can make a quick stop to see the salmon ladder in one of Norway’s best salmon rivers, Tengselva/Bjerkreimselva.
The tour then continues more or less along the entire salmon river until you reach Vikeså.
After Vikeså, take the RV 503 and cycle towards Byrkjedal.
Here you come to Gloppedalsura, which is worth a little stop.
It is made up of boulders lying on top of an end moraine.
Ura was created 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted away from Gloppedalen.
An old legend says that there used to be a farm in Gloppedalen, but the people there were godless, they drank and fought during the holy days of Christmas.
Then the mountain fell down and buried the whole farm, but for seven full years people could hear a rooster crowing under the rocks.
It had gotten into a grain bin.
Not long after Gloppedalsura, it’s time to take a breather at Byrkjedalstunet.
Here you can enjoy a good cup of coffee and waffles.
After that, it’s all downhill and fast on the way back.
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How can I navigate the route?
This primarily depends on whether you have a GPS installed, navigate by App on your mobile phone or prefer paper printing.
Here we describe the most common workflows:
- Download the GPX file for the route of your choice to your computer
- Import the file to your route planning tool (e.g. Garmin’s Basecamp or Tom Tom’s MyDrive)
- Export the route to your GPS in the usual way
- Check that the route is calculated correctly in your GPS (It is recommended that the GPS is set to select the fastest route and any avoidance is turned off for the route to be calculated as described).
- Have a good trip!
- Download the GPX file for the route of your choice to your mobile phone
- Send/open the file in the app that belongs to your GPS model (e.g. Garmin’s Drive or Tom Tom’s MyDrive)
- Send the route to your GPS (follow instructions that come with your GPS and App)
- Check that the route is calculated correctly in your GPS (It is recommended that the GPS is set to select the fastest route and any avoidance is turned off for the route to be calculated as described).
- Have a good trip!
Many of the routes on Hubriding use the app Ride with GPS app for route planning and navigation of the routes.
You can download a free version or pay for extended use.
Click on the Send to Device link on the map on this page, when the app has started and you see the current route, press Navigate and then just follow the route.
- Click on the link in the map on the page and the map will open in a new window
- Print the map, with or without description
- Have a good trip!
