Vesleulfossen

Plus, I had to work a little to see this pretty waterfall, especially since I was a little bit lost while also fighting the onset of darkness (only in Norway was I able to start a hike at 10pm and still not require a torch though I admit I was pushing it). So I guess maybe the Peer Gynt trials and tribulations was appropriate regarding my own personal struggles here.

From the car park (see directions below), I walked along the road past a locked gate and towards the Store Ula River. After crossing the bridge over the river, I was walking along the Peer Gynt Trail, which headed north along the river (and also was marked with plenty of red arrows as well as signs). During the initial part of this trail, there were several private and public mountain cabins (hyttas) on both sides of the river.

But at about 2km (30 minutes) from the trailhead, I ended up at either the last or next-to-last cabin. Behind one of those cabins, there was a spur trail leaving the Peer Gynt Trail and marked with a rock cairn as well as blue painted arrows on some of the rocks. I know I'm vague about this because I happened to miss this turnoff before my GPS and map fortunately tipped me off into realizing that I had gone way too far.

In any case, I scrambled westwards beyond the cabin where I finally picked up the spur trail. It continued for about another 20 minutes (almost 1km) to an informal area where I was finally able to see Vesleulfossen between trees. I'm sure I could've continued downhill even further, but it was getting dark and I had to be content with what photos I had. I'm sure someone reading this might fill me with regret telling me a better view wasn't that much further from where I turned around...

On the return trip, I had to make sure I rejoined the Peer Gynt Trail shortly east of the last cabin. The trails were poorly marked and I managed to confuse the trail with other use trails so once again I got lost and had to backtrack until I finally saw the familiar bridge over the Store Ula River near the start of the hike.

All in all, it took me 2 hours to do this excursion.

Directions: See the Storulfossen page for driving directions to get to Mysusæter. Once you see the 3-way intersection mentioned on that page (with a toll road heading northeast on the right), keep left and follow this road to a car park in about a minute or two. Beyond this car park, there was a locked gate keeping us from driving further.

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The bridge over Store Ula River with lots of signs pointing in all sorts of directions. Fortunately, one of those signs indicated the Peer Gynt Trail

Following the Peer Gynt Trail alongside the Store Ula River

This rock cairn also helped to point out the spur to Vesleulfossen

Now the trail is marked by blue arrows or markings

Closer look at Vesleulfossen

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