Norway-Kolsåstoppen Loop Day Hike

Since our flight has been canceled again, Jesse and Malou headed for a Medium hike at Kolsåstoppen still in Oslo. We packed some sandwiches and left the apartment at 10:30AM and went to National Theater station after which we headed to the Bus Station to take bus 150 to Gullhaug to Stein Gard. We had to wait about 22 mins because we missed the other bus 3 mins before we got there. It is handy to always check your Ruter app for departures so you can plan ahead especially if you have a tight schedule.

Bus 150 Stop 

From Stein Gard we entered a farm and from there followed the mobile app for the trail.

Stein Gard farm jump off

Sometimes we get off tangent so we check the app and go back a couple of times until we are on the right trail again because there are some forks.

Lunch at the lake side 

wild flowers along the path

clover leaves 

pine trees

are we there yet? 

this is not it yet

OK this is the spot

under the shade 

the farthest I can go 

it's better than the pics

We stayed at the top for about less than an hour I think. It was probably 20 degrees Celsius that time. I still brought a down jacket 😅 just in case the temperature drops in the middle of nowhere.
The decent was not as I expected, it was more challenging and there were more people going up and down there. There were loose rocks but I'm surprised I made it out. The contrast is there were steps with railings too in the steep areas. I also saw many teens and little kids on this side.

Overall it was great. We had an afternoon worship service at 1700 so we had to go at 1600PM but we missed the bus 150 again because we didn't flag it I guess. So we had had to wait another 30 minutes or so.