The Mental Image Blog

The trip from Lillehammer to Dovrefjell cuts through a landscape that is daunting — frozen lakes and rivers, dark pine forests, farmhouses buried in snow to their windows and unforgiving windy peaks. That said, Kongsvoll, our entry point into Dovrefjell National Park, sits at the edge of a different world entirely. When I stepped out of the car and into the perfectly clear air at about 6F/-14C, the reality of what I had signed up for came into sharp focus.