Posts Categorized: norway

Trekkit’s Road Trip to Norway Series

Ryan and Rodney in Norway

All six Norway episodes are now available on Bell Video On Demand and Bell Aliant TV1 Online. Ryan and Rodney travel the fjords, glaciers, and many off the beaten but beautiful areas of Norway. If you don’t have Bell Aliant FibreOP TV service you can still watch Trekkit online. Episode 1 – Road Trip Begins… Read more »

Preikestolen – Norway Part 4

Preikestolen Hostel

We spent the night at the Preikestolen hostel, conveniently located at the start of the trail to Pulpit Rock. Take note of the grassed roof on the buildings – these are fairly common in Norway. The advantages of grassed roofs (also called sod roofs) are many. They are very heavy, so they help to stabilize… Read more »

Gloppedalsura Scree – Norway Part 3

Click Here To Watch Norway the Road Trip: Part II The mountain road from Lysebotn is closed during the winter months and opens each year, usually in May. Construction of the road was completed in 1984, and was built in connection with the development of a hydro-electric power station. It is the only road to… Read more »

Lysefjord – Norway Part 2

This blog post takes place during Norway: The Road Trip, Episode 1 on Bell Aliant TV1. If the purpose of your trip is to see fjords, then you better get on a boat. We booked passage on a small ferry from Lauvvik to Lysebotn. The ferry was so small that we had to back the… Read more »

Road Trip Begins – Norway Part 1

Ryan and I went to Norway to explore the Western Fjords during the Summer of 2015.  We spent nine days exploring, filming, and taking pictures of the majestic landscape.  Our trip will be presented in six episodes during Season 4 of Trekkit TV, starting early March 2016 on Bell Aliant TV1.  However, it is difficult to tell… Read more »

Next Mountain, Norway: The Series

                      After being consumed with planning, filming, and editing the Wonders of Iceland series since November 2013, that project is finally finished and now there is a new mountain to climb, the Norway series. Projects like Iceland, Norway, or even building new software like Trekkit… Read more »

Shooting on Location: Norway, Ten Random Thoughts

Rodney and I just spent a little over a week shooting footage for Season 4 of Trekkit TV for Community One. We travelled from Stavanger to Trondheim in a Toyota Hybrid filming and photographing everything we could. The following is ramblings of things we learned along the way that I wanted to share: Rain. Learn… Read more »

Off to Norway: Trekkit TV Season IV

I can’t believe this will be the fourth year filming our travel and trekking antics! Thanks to Csaba and Brad from Bell Aliant Community One for greenlighting the project many moons ago and thanks to all the “most adventurous” people that have come with us on various adventures to help bring some lesser known places… Read more »