To the best of my knowledge, that statement is true. Or at least it was true on July 1, 2016 when we finally made it to Presthytta and crushed all former records with documented evidence. Not that it was a competition.

Luckily a sign to Presthytta caught out attention: only 1 km to go! Surely it couldn't be up the dirt road to the left? That road looked like it had been recently dug up. Skeptical, we followed the trail. It was mostly a bulldozed path of mud and fallen trees in an otherwise relatively clear area. We stopped when we came to a very steep hill that had effectively turned into a river/waterfall of sorts with all the runoff. We caught our breath and climbed up thinking surely the cabin was at the top. Nope. The runoff stopped but the bulldozed path continued.


We went higher, and higher, thinking it would be over every hill and it wasn't. And, where were the blazes? After following the bulldozed path through the woods, we hit blue blazes again. What path had we been following? Should we follow the blazes left (up another hill) or right (into the forest)? 1 km? How inaccurate was the sign we passed? We decided it wasn't worth it to go up any more hills and took a right. We followed the path until we found ourselves back at the abandoned barn and the sign for Presthytta that said 1km to go. Then we had an important decision to make: should we try again?


We did. We followed the blazes very carefully and came once more to the waterfall. But we weren't going up that hill again until we found a blue blaze. Finally we found what we were looking for, in the forest along a small path through the grass beside our muddy "trail". Soon we were at Presthytta and the rain poured down. We took shelter in the cabin and played Yahtzee while we waited for it to ease up. I won against all other recorded games by a pretty respectable margin while eating a Kvikk Lunsj. My spirits were completely restored. The rain stopped and we went back to Drømmen.

Presthytta had been hard to find but it had an amazing fireplace inside and the outhouse was less buggy than the one at Drømmen. It was a bit bigger than I prefer and even though there is a living room, all the beds are in the same room as the kitchen. But there were tons of raspberry bushes outside. Too bad for me they weren't ripe for the picking!

For the record, looking at the map with less tired eyes, the bulldozed path was a municipal boundary clearing between Hole and Ringerike. That's a mistake I won't be making twice!

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