Start of service road to Røverkollen.
| Røverkollen from Romsås Røverkollen |
| Estimated net time | Less than one hour. | ||
| Difficulty | No difficulties. | ||
| Drinking water | No stable access to running water. | ||
| GSM coverage | Coverage throughout the route. | ||
| Parking | Room for several cars at the trail head car park, but you're not likely to be allowed to park here during day-time Monday-Friday. | ||
| Start height | 285 metres | ||
| Vertical metres | 120 metres for the roundtrip. | ||
| Trip distance | 2.9 km | ||
| GPS-file | X | ||
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From Oslo centre find road 4, and follow it north-east, in the direction of Gjøvik. Leave road 4 when you see signs for Romsås, and follow signs for Romsås until you're on Romsåsveien. While driving this road uphill you'll see a sign towards left for ""Romsås senter". Turn left and drive 1.2 km uphill. Turn right, down onto a car park, where signed for "Telenor" (you're not likely to be allowed to park here during day-time Monday-Friday). Park here.
Walk back up to the main road and turn right. Follow the road 230 metres and turn left onto a service road closed by a gate. Follow this service road uphill, until you get to a large telecomm tower. Leave the service road, head up to the tower, and proceed to the view tower north of the telecomm tower.
Descend by reversing your ascent route.
I had been to uncle Kristian's funeral in Langesund and was due to drive home. Given all the road works on E18 and E6, and the around-zero temperatures, I estimated the drive home to be no less than ten hours. And with a 3pm exit from Langesund I decided to find accommodation for the night somewhere north of Lillehammer. This gave me the opportunity to "waste" a few minutes on hiking Røverkollen.
The hike to Røverkollen was done on ploughed service road, except for the last 50 metres or so, and was an easy and refreshing hike. I met three other hikers while descending, who were out walking their dogs and smoking their cigarettes! After the hike I drove to Kvam, where I got a room for the night.