Travel Norway #21 - Sylan - Hiking through Stugudalen valley.

Heelo Friends!

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Today I am happy to present another part of the series - this time a big gallery and story of my one-day-hike through Stuggudalen valley in beautiful autumn time.
Hope You will enjoy the gallery and my story. Let's begin...

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Location:

Stugudalen valley is a very large, flat area situated on a plateau among higher hills, mountains Sylan and big Nysjøen lake below. Actually, Stugudalen is a name of a village by the main road from Selbu to Røros, situated much lower, but it is commen to call the whole area Stugudalen.
The part of where I hiked during this trip is called Hamndalen... but I am not sure if someone is using the correct name ;)

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Background Story:

We came to the location on evening day before. Me and @sawyn were planning to meet our friends - Darek, also landscape photographer and Johhny Wild - my good friend and great traveller. We found them already exploring the area. We used some light of sunset oto shoot few frames but very soon started also to look for a good spot for setting a camp.
It was very windy + I think it is windy all the time there...
We found the cozy place, in a little lower ground, hidden from wind, next to a river with good view on the area blow.
We spent together fantastic night with bon fire, chatting, grilling and drinking - but this is totally different story...

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The Hike

Next day it was time to go and explore the area. Darek and Johnny went up to the mountains to shoot some frames in a dense fog and low clouds... I and @sawyn decided to wander around in lower parts, exploring the area of Niejtenjohke river (amazing name!!) some falls and marshes below the mountins.

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Weather and light conditions:

The stream in lower parts is quite big, have few smaller and bigger falls on its way down to the lake. Autumnal vegetation around the river and in whole valley had amazing colours! The weather that day was great! Despite the very strong sun light, there was a lot of clouds on the sky - we were just right under a huge hole on the sky... heavy clouds were flying around us and we had a blue sky above our heads - interesting phenomenon - it was like thi almost whole day.

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Such situations generate a nice landscapes, where we had all bright and sunny on the ground and strong, dark and heavy clouds on the sky above horizon.
It was windy, the air was full of haze, low clouds above the mountains brought few very short showers. Higher the mountain we walked, closer to clouds we were - we experience much colder, wet and strong wind...

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The river

Walking around, looking for motives - the river was the first subject of course. Crystal clear waters, very cold (I was bathing in it a night before :D! ) was a good point to start the hike. Walking among the river is always great idea when we explore unknown location and looking for something to shoot. Water is always good subject!

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The plains

Plateau around us were huge! Open air above our heads and strong wind gave us amazing feeling of freedom... I was trying to catch the empty open space but it is always hard to show it on photo. How to show the real feeling of being very small in an enormous big open area...

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Trees

Next great motives we shoot were the trees - amazing small, miniature forms of birches with yellow, autumnal cover. Little colorful bonsai... Few examples I found around me:

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Ground details.

Marshes around the area ere covered by water in some parts. It was great misture of black mud, red water, red and green vegetation with rocky details...

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Yellow grassy bubbles on the picture above was on my best...
Another interesting find was this very old tree trunk. The roots were dried out but some parts hidden in the mud still stays strong and hard. I wonder how the area looked like a hundred years ago? Maybe more bigger trees were growing around. I think most of the big trees were used to build the road nearby and the dam near the mountains... I think this can be remining of that times...

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In such open, vast spaces it is always great to find a detail on the ground and focus on it, making the sku and far horizon just a background for the main object. Like the trunk above also these stone was a great detail in surrounding empty space:

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More interesting main subject - more interesting photo. remember to go low on the ground to fill up the biggest possible area of Your frame.

Against the sun light

On the trip I shoot many photos against the sun. I found it to be really attractive - the light in hazy air looked different than usual - it wa soft, warm, saturated...
I usually avoid this kind of effect but this time even the flares I found to be attractive. The light that day was great as You can see on the shots above and below...

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Up the mountain

We walked by the river which now was much more shallow and running faster on steep rocky ground. Decided to go up until we will have a nice view on the whole valley and distant lake.

Exploring such areas are always excited!
Here - @sawyn walking above the river with his gear...

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We explore the area, finding more falls and a nice looking narrow gorge. It was very dangerous place, because as I found later - all the rocks above my head were very loose...
But the views from the gorge to the valley below was great!

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This was the highest point I climbed - getting what I wanted - the nice view on the whole area!
As You can see - there is a lot of free space to wander around. Hundreds of ground motives to shoot, this is also the land of reindeers - both the wild ones and the ones which have owners...

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Unwanted photo

This is photo which I already don't remember how was done ;)... probably it was some mistake or a camera releases its shutter without informing me... anyway, I think it is interesting perspective and the shot itself has some moody light...

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The antler

Going down the hill we found another nice motive - a part of the wildlife of this land - reindeer antler.
After I took some shots, I left it where I found it - normally I would take it but this one was little damaged and I decided it will look much better on the ground there than in my place which is already very much cluttered ;).

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A way back

Few more shots on the way back to camping ground... The river and nice looking colorful vegetation.
The essence of autumn...

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The view on the mountain we were on:

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Summary

What to tell more - You see the results - was it good day - judge yourself. For me was great! Both, the evening day before and the day from this gallery.
I meet my good friends in such amazing landscapes, had great time together, make a lot of good material - all of us are always very busy outdoor ;). The light that day was a pure magic - real autumn - something I love in this time of the year. Hope to experience more of such fantastic trips in future!

Thanks guys for amazing time, thanks nature for amazing landscapes, thanks light for magical shots!

... and thank You for watching and supporting my works!!

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Some more shots from the area.

Travel Norway #1 – Steinvikholmen and why Vikings didn't build stone castles...
Travel Norway #2 - Storfossen and Metifossen waterfalls
Travel Norway #3 - Magic shore in Muruvik
Travel Norway #4 - Live with big L - Cabin trip to Heia
Travel Norway #5 part 1 - Let's go Undergound! - Gronligrotta Cave
Travel Norway #5 part 2 - Let's go Undergound! - Gronligrotta Cave
Travel Norway #6 - Muskox from Dovre national park
Travel Norway #7 - Dovre mountains - Sunrise by Hjerkinnsdammen.
Travel Norway #8 - First visit in Trollheimen montains - Innerdalen
Travel Norway #9 - Austerdalsisen - first view on Svartisen's glacial landscapes
Travel Norway #10 - Innerdalen -First Summer trip to Trollheimen National Park - Day 1
Travel Norway #11 - Innerdalen - First Summer trip to Trollheimen National Park - Day 2
Travel Norway #12 - Magical place in Lofoten - Eggum
Travel Norway #13 - Visiting an old copper mine - Christianus Sextus Gruve
Travel Norway #14 - Nordgruvefeltet #1 - Before sunset
Travel Norway #15 - Colorful grounds of Nordgruvefeltet #2 - After sunset
Travel Norway #16 - Femundsmarka national park vol.1 - Lakes and forests
Travel Norway #17 - Travel Norway #17 - Femundsmarka national park vol.2 - To The Top!
Travel Norway #18 - Autumn in Sylan p.1 - On the Way!
Travel Norway #19 - Autumn in Sylan p.2 - Lake Sylsjoen
Travel Norway #20 - Where winter & autumn meets - Autumnal visit in Viromdalen and Innerdalen

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