DNT cabins near the Trondheim-Bergen bus road

I am planning to do some hiking in West Norway where I've never been before. The car rental being a bit too expensive for my budget, I was planning on taking the bus from Trondheim to Bergen (bus #431 on this page), and stop between these towns several times so that I can spend a few days hiking, spending nights in self-service DNT cabins.

However, I didn't find easily-accessible DNT cabins when coming from bus stops. Are there some bus shuttles available ? I didn't find this kind of information when looking at the cabins' details pages.

Surely I'm not the first tourist to encounter this situation, how do people without a car manage to reach these DNT cabins ?

Best Answer

The problem here is that most of the Norwegian mountain hiking area is a high plateau rather than an alpine range, and getting onto the plateau and into the hut network from the west can be arduous. Once you're up, however, you can hut-to-hut more easily.

You might like to look at GRINDEFLETHYTTA. Accessible from the Bergen-Trondheim road before it drops to Gudvangen. (I am sorry that I don't have my maps with me here, and that I have lived in Bergen for decades but am less well acquainted with the highway north of the Sognefjord.)