First of all: sorry for writing this in English. Jeg snakker kun lite Norsk.
This summer I plan on walking the Nordlandsruta (https://www.dnt.no/turtips/anbefalte-turer/nordlandsruta/) and I have a few questions that I hope you can answer for me:
My estimate is that I can walk about 20 to 25 km per day. Is that realistic given the terrain?
For reference, last summer I followed the Kungsleden from Abisko to Kvikkjok 20km per day was easily done (with my wife and two children)), now I’m going on my own which will be faster but as I don’t know the terrain it is hard to estimate.
Organising the supplies seems to be the biggest challenge I plan to bring food for the first week and arrange resupply boxes every 5-7 days. For the first box I have found an address but for the second and third box (Lønsdal station and Sulitjelma) I cannot find an address where I can send a box to. Therefore my idea is to send them poste restante to a postoffice so i can pick them up there.
According to the posten.no website this is possible.
The problem however is that apparently they only keep the box at the postoffice for 7 days (which is not enough if I send the box just before I start the tour.. You can ask to extend this period but the posten.no app that you seem to need for this can only be used with a Norwegian mobile number which I don’t have…
All help or suggestions on this matter are much appreciated
Finally a question about the cabins along the way. Although I plan to camp most of the time, I do want to use a cabin now and then. In the guidebook and on ut.no I see that there is 12V power available, which would be great to charge my GPS. However I cannot find anywhere what kind of a plug I need for this. Is a USB cable enough or are they using a different kind of plug?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
Kind regards
Paul
