Cycle Tour Bike trip to the North Cape

Dag 31, etape/stage 23: Gåradak-Repvåg

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Added on 03 Mar 2014

last edited by Ottocolor on 23 Apr 2014

Cycle route metrics

ridden

Total distance in km

Cumulative elevation gain in m

1.613

Avg. slope uphill in %

1,94

Cumulative elevation loss in m

1.645

GPS track data

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Track points in total

1.083

Track points per km (avg)

Start/endpoint

Start location

Porsanki, Finnmark, NO (52 m NHN)

End location

Repvåg, Finnmark, NO (20 m NHN)

ridden on

16 Jun 2010

Weather

Overcast and quiet. When I hit the road in the evening, it was totally quiet, still overcast. 'No' weather, actually.

Accommodation

Repvåg Camping og Kafé
Fylkesveg 175 13
NO-9768 Repvåg

Properties

Northbound on the E6 and E69. Sounds like big highways, but as it was, no traffic and a fairly narrow road along the fiord of Porsangen. But excellent tarmac and only a few climbs, as there were many tunnels.

Remarks

The friendly bus driver had dropped me at the camp site and my broken bike at the Intersport sports shop in Lakselv town centre the evening before. So that's where I went in the morning, about 3 km. But they had never seen a wheel hub, like I unpacked it, dissembled, on the desk. My hope sunk. But I got a phone number of a bicycle repairer some 25 km in the direction, I wanted to go anyway, and there was a bus service to the place. My hopes were fed again. I carried the bike to the bus station and walked to the camp site in order to get packed. Then I took a taxi into town with my luggage and had my bike with loose rear wheel and all the luggage on board the bus, which dropped everything off at the roadside. I left the luggage here and carried my bike about one kilometer to the bike repairer, who said it was a standard ball bearing and fixed my problem immediately. Marvellous! So I put the luggage on the bike and hit the road. So now I was on my way to the North Cape on my bike anyway. Cooked some soup near the road and was followed by a flock of reindeer. Beautiful stage in the long evening light along the fiord. And I made it to Repvaag, where I had planned to camp anyway. I pitched the tent on the lawn outside a closed café, knowing it would be open the next day. It was touching to be cycling again, as I had feared my tour had finished. Tomorrow I would reach my goal.

Travel report

Indmaden i baghjulsnavet på disken i Lakselv/The insides of my rear wheel hub on the desk in Lakselv

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Ret vild natur lige uden for byen/The town is surrounded by the wilderness

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Cykelsmeden er gået i gang med sit arbejde/The cycle repairer has begun working

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Det var ingen stor sag for ham/No big deal for him

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Jeg har altid beundret teknikere/I have always admired technicians

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Mit baghjul er atter på plads i baggaflen/My rear wheel again in place in the back fork

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Nysgerrige rensdyr holder øje med mig/Curious reindeer are watching me

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Smukt beliggende trækirke ved fjorden/Beautifully situated wooden church at the fiord

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En lille fiskerlandsby på et næs/A small fishing village on a headland

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En ræv kommer tæt på/A fox is quite close to me

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Fiskerbåde spejler sig i vandet/Fishing boats are reflected in the water

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Vandet er krystalklart/The water is crystal clear

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Ingen trafik på vejen/No cars on the road

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Mit ydmyge nattelogi i Repvåg/My humble accomodation at Repvaag

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Fin udsigt over fjorden fra teltpladsen/Nice view across the fiord from the tent spot

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