Bøyabreen is the most easily accessible glacier arm of Jostedalsbreen. You can see it from the road. A small side road leads to a parking area, and from there it is about a 200-metre walk to a lake with a clear view of the glacier cascading down the mountainside.
This is the glacier you see in most promotional photos of the Fjærland area. It drops steeply from the ice cap above, framed by dark rock walls. The contrast between blue-white ice and the green valley below is striking.
Like all arms of Jostedalsbreen, Bøyabreen has been retreating. The change is visible from year to year. Older photographs at the Glacier Museum in Fjærland show how much further down the valley the ice once reached.
You cannot walk on Bøyabreen. The terrain below the glacier is unstable, and ice can calve without warning. Stay behind the marked safety lines.
This is the glacier you see in most promotional photos of the Fjærland area. It drops steeply from the ice cap above, framed by dark rock walls. The contrast between blue-white ice and the green valley below is striking.
Like all arms of Jostedalsbreen, Bøyabreen has been retreating. The change is visible from year to year. Older photographs at the Glacier Museum in Fjærland show how much further down the valley the ice once reached.
You cannot walk on Bøyabreen. The terrain below the glacier is unstable, and ice can calve without warning. Stay behind the marked safety lines.