TET Norway Section 1

TET Norway Section 1: Charlottenberg – Blåhø

The close to 600 km long section 1 starts where you cross the Swedish border near the town of Charlottenberg. You dive straight into the forest and drives on gravel, dirt roads and forest roads for more than 100 km. Even if you don’t get to higher grounds to enjoy a view, you pass beautiful lakes, drive alongside rivers and feel really deep into the wilderness. Soon you start climbing the mountain roads east of Lillehammer. Crossing the Gudbrands valley on the way towards Skåbu. This part is considered the trickiest, with some narrow and challenging back-roads. But it is manageable even on huge adventure bikes. In fact, if you take your time, the TET in Norway is in general more of a beautiful nature adventure. Not an off-road challenge. That said, some gravel/dirt road experience — especially if you travel alone, and a set of tougher tires, is an advantage.
From Skåbu to Vågamo you climb mountains and dive into valleys, until you finally climb the section’s destination, Blåhø. The view from the 1618 m high mountain top is spectacular in all directions.

The TET Norway sections

• Section 1: Charlottenberg — Blåhø
• Section 2: Blåhø – Støa
• Section 2b: roundtrip: Alvdal-Røros-Alvdal
• section 3: Finish border — North Cape

Honor the Linesman

In Norway, it is not allowed to go off-roading wherever you like, and many (actually, most) gravel roads are closed for public use.

But also here, as in the other countries the TET passes, there is an eager dirt road adventurer developing, expanding and checking the route’s on voluntary basis. In TET, he/she is called a linesman and in Norway that is Tore Silseth.
He’s made sure that the whole route is 100% legal for us to use.

Toll roads

Some roads are toll-roads, and if you cannot pay via your mobile phone (Vipps), you need to bring cash. A few accepts card, but far from all of these small roads.