Rock & Roll Harastølen

If you’re looking to burn off some calories or maybe a little frustration, we have the medicine you need. Route 6 is excellent as a short afternoon session and allows for both speed, good flight and a good portion of technical driving in slightly demanding terrain.

The route is defined as demanding

Routes defined as demanding are suitable for people with experience in demanding parties.

Length
43 km

Popularity
7.5 av 10

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If you're looking to burn off some calories or maybe a little frustration, we have the medicine you need.

Route 6 should be regarded as pure recreation and fun for drivers who have been driving on gravel for a while. The trip goes out along the fjord in nice and festive bends to Luster where you turn onto Steinbakken up in the mountains towards the otherwise well-known sanatorium Harastølen. Here you quickly climb a winding gravel road up to the sanatorium itself, which is a sight in itself. The history of the sanatorium dates back to 1902 where tuberculosis patients were treated in the dry climate until 1955. Later, Harastølen was used as a psychiatric hospital and has thus acquired a slightly sinister history. It is claimed that Harastølen is haunted and the horror film Villmark was later filmed here.

We dropped 50 kroner and made it all the way up to Røssesete at 1240 m.a.s.l.

If you drive around the hospital and keep right into the forest, you’ll find a forest road with a VIPS station. If you pay 50 kroner, you’ll get a great experience on the winding and steep road up to Røssesete at the end of the road. This is a hairy trip where you really get to test your skills. If it’s wet, this will be equally demanding and you should therefore not drive up here alone.

This stretch is quite intense and very fun to drive for those who have driven on gravel before.

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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:

GPS via computer

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!

GPS via mobile phone

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!

App via Ride with GPS

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.

Paper printout

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!