This book still isn't the long awaited hiking book on Norway. Many problems appear pretty quickly after its use : first, it's mostly very short day walks (3 hrs) or very long ones (8 hours or more) and multi day walks. The problem with Norway is the lack of day walks and of information for english speakers : you need to look at a map, see the options, and tailor your own day circuit, so you can have a nice 4 to 7 hrs day out.
In this book, it's also quite hard to find the walks : other Rother guides have a map where the walks' numbers are actually where the walks start... This is not the case in the map here. A walk number could be 50 km off its real location on the map... This is insane. Also, most walks are graded "difficult", in black. But in fact, Norwegian standards are not the same as, let's say, European Alps standards. Hence 800 m elevation doesn't automatically qualifies a walk as "hard", especially with the well marked and wide walking paths you find in Norway. Vertiginous portions of track are rare, and the only real danger comes from morning ice or permanent snow patches. It would then have been smarter to sort out the real difficult walks from the ones that just require some physicial fitness. I wouldn't call the Besseggen ridge walk "difficult" for example. Variants are also neglected : it would be good to include shorter options for when the ferry boat isn't there anymore for example, or in late/early season where snow is an issue...
Moreover, as there is no "Norway North" book, this is very frustrating to find absolutely no walk in Rondane or Dovrefjell. And for some parks, such as Josteldabreen, there's like a weird 10 hrs itinerary and that's it... It's really chaotic, I couldn't select one interesting walk from this book : too long, too short, road closed, starts from a hut, not on its correct position on the map, not near the interesting features, not showing what it's about on the photos... This is one of the worst Rother guides, whereas some of them are very good, especially in the Alps...
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