BJØRKE ØSTRE

TRAILS

The Taiga Begins Here

Just beyond Løten, the great northern forest begins,
a green tide stretching from Norway to the Pacific Ocean.

This is the edge of the taiga, the world’s largest continuous belt of boreal forest. A quiet, ancient place where moss softens every step, where spruce and pine stand like pillars of an old cathedral, and where time folds itself into stillness.

Writers and artists have walked here before us.
Rolf Jacobsen called it “Earth’s green scarf”:
and locals still speak of the deep calm that settles between the trees.

Not far from here lies the old path to Svartbekken, a place where history, myth, and forest shadows mingle. The stories are many, the trail gentle, and the silence complete.