Rosskreppfjorden: An ocean in the clouds

If you're travelling Norway and you're have ever thinking a so called fjord should be a canyon filled up with ocean water, you're wrong. It's right for the most cases, because 999.999 of a million fjord all around the world are gorges at the shoreline of an ocean. Some of them are reaching hundred meters deep into the mainland, some of them are only a tenth of kilometers deep.

And one of them all are wide away from every shoreline of every ocean: Rosskreppfjorden is named like a real fjord, but the giant strech of water in southern Norway is in realitity a lake, not that kind of fjord that you expect. The "fjord" you find near a nameless street who leads from Rysstad to Suleskard.

Before the silhouette of the mountain Urddalsknuten you will find a peaceful place in a wide landscape that builds the catchment area of the river Kvina. The river basin is named Rosskreppfjorden and it has a maximum length of more than 11 kilometres and it is 5.6 kilometres wide.

A special situation

The surface area is about 29.51 km2 and the complete length of the shoreline is more than 70 kilometres. The special one at the situation: All this has it's home in the clouds! Rosskreppfjorden has a surface elevation from 890 to 929 metres, that's for shure little bit higher than the Eagle Mountain in Minnesota and near the summit of the mountain Brocken in the german Harz.

But if you're standing on the shore I'm sure you may think you are at the edge of a real ocean. Rosskreppfjorden has high waves with foam crowns, the wind over the fjell ( a kind of prairie in norwegian)is wild at this elevation and the water is blue like the cairibean sea.

Too cold to take a bath

The temperature in summer season too is not that comfortable: It only has 13 or 15 degrees under a midday sun. And if you are ready to make your trip in Spring or Autumn, you better check the weather situation before you start. It might get cold or snowy in seconds at the mountain fjord.

It's not the place to take a bath normally, because the water isn't warmer than a Jameson Whiskey on the rocks. But if you brave enough to try it, you can be sure the sharp chill of the wind dries you in seconds after you leave the water.

Not a must have, because you could find stony beaches and beauty wild camp spots, where you can pitch your tent and lay your head for the night. All of Scandinavia has the ,almansrecht', a rule, that give you the right to stay for one night at every place without any kind of permit.

A rock armoured dam

A very good spot is the area close to the dam of Rosskreppfjorden, a rock armoured dam with a fall height of 83 meters who drives a power plant of 50 MW, the smallest one of the Sira-Kvina power company.

Near of this place is a monument made of concrete with no apparent purpose. It's just there, grey like the stones, alone in an empty scenery.

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