We left Valldal fairly early to catch the ferry across to Eidsdal and then on to the road 63 over the Ornevegen and down to Gerainger.

I'll let the photos show you the way up and down.  

When we got to Gerainger it was swarming with people and tour buses. The 2 cruise boats had disgorged thousands of passengers who were everywhere, in the middle of the roads, up the hills, round every bend!!  It was so touristy, it was awful!  We had thought about spending the night at a site there and doing the trip along Geraingerfjord on the ferry, but when we saw what it was like we drove straight on up the hill!
When we got to the first viewpoint it was blocked by about half a dozen tour buses, one with labels from Brazil!   I got out and took a few photos - I must have photobombed several photos and selfies!   We carried on up to the top and most of the other traffic seemed to go back down- thank goodness.  
The road wound its way up to a plateau and then up and up into the deep snow. This was the road we had turned back from previously.  

We were now back on road 15 as before and we carried on down to Lom.  

We stopped for lunch at a picnic spot near Skjak and as we drove in we saw a big bird which Rob identified as a female capercaillie! When we stopped it walked over towards our MH.
Then another car came in and she walked across to it.   When some German bikers settled to have lunch in the closed cafe kiosk she wandered over and settled near them. Luckily no one responded to her 'begging' by feeding her.
When Rob checked the bird book it said that the capercaillie is a shy inhabitant of pine woods......... There was a big pipe into the carpark from the woods across the road so perhaps she had come through that and it was 'learnt behaviour' to beg from travellers.
Whatever the reason it was really strange to observe at close quarters a bird you would probably never see at home.

We carried on down to Lom, where we had stopped before. We now turned onto route 55, the Sognefellsveg. This runs for 110km up and down to the Lustrafjord.  The Rough Guide describes this road as one of the most melodramatic in Europe! it is only open from lte May to late Oct.   The highest part at 1434m was only dug out in 1938 under a great Depression make work project and took a couple of hundred men with pickaxes, spades and wheelbarrows over 2 yrs to build.
It started inocuously enough as a wide valley with lovely trees in bright spring foliage but soon started to climb.
We stopped at the village of Elveseter, where there is a strange column 33m high from the 1830's which is there because apparently no other town or village would have it!  

After all the tacky tourism at Gerainger it was great to have the road almost to ourselves, except for one Czech coach!  it was an amazing journey and I'll let the pictures show you the way up........ and down to Sognal