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View from Gaustatoppen – Gaustatoppen Information Board loop from Longefonn

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Norway
Telemark
Tinn

View from Gaustatoppen – Gaustatoppen Information Board loop from Longefonn

Hard

4.7

(40)

216

hikers

View from Gaustatoppen – Gaustatoppen Information Board loop from Longefonn

05:00

11.2km

710m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: April 8, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that may be dangerous

A part of this route comprises technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience may be required.

After 83 m for 1.49 km

Waypoints

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Start point

Parking

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1

1.51 km

Trail Junction to Gaustatoppen Summit

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From here, you can not only reach the summit, but also the more easily accessible, broad ridge of Gaustatoppen. The view from here also rewards the climb through the scree.

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2.23 km

View of Gaustatoppen Summit

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3

2.65 km

View from Gaustatoppen

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At 1,883 meters, Gaustatoppen is the highest mountain in the Telemark province. On a clear day, the summit offers impressive panoramic views of up to one-sixth of Norway.
​You can …

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3.01 km

Information board along the way about the ripple marks on the stones.

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3.45 km

Gaustatoppen is several hundred meters higher than the surrounding mountains, and during the last ice age the peak rose above the ice sheet like a nunatak. Frost heaving over thousands …

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4.37 km

Gaustatoppen Information Board

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Very informative for those interested

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5.40 km

Heddersvatn Lake

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8

6.52 km

Sheep Meadow

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Great climb with spectacular views

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11.2 km

End point

Parking

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.06 km

2.43 km

788 m

729 m

140 m

Surfaces

5.81 km

2.57 km

1.38 km

1.25 km

127 m

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Highest point (1,770 m)

Lowest point (1,080 m)

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Monday 11 May

1°C

-4°C

9 %

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