New Years Eve Hike

Dato:

31.12.2017

Turlengde:

3:16t

Distanse:

6,9km

Once again I was out with my camera and arrived at Vedafjellet in time for sunrise with a plan to capture the sun rising up somewhere above the Gjesdal area. The wind was chilling! It was +1 degree but blowing a gale at the top. It was not very pleasant at all. The forecast was for light cloud but I was hoping for that the sun would show itself or produce some fantastic colours. But alas it was not to be. The clouds kept coming and ended up covering the distant mountains completely. I recorded a quick timelapse of the clouds rolling by before moving on to Skjenanuten , Brekkafjellet , Kodleberget and finally Ragnhildsnuten before heading back to the car. It ended up being a reasonably strenuous hike, but as always a pleasure. :-)

Store Knuten from Gravasstølen

Dato:

28.12.2017

Turlengde:

2:59t

Distanse:

4,4km

© Ben Young During the day we (myself and a friend) we talked about doing a topptur though figured it was a little unfair to leave the women with alone with the kids so decided we'd do a night topptur. So after they were in bed and after much umming and ahhing we decided we'd to try for Røseknuten . The weather was good, clear skies, no wind and -10 degrees. And there was enough moon light for us to find our way up without using headlamps or torches. The plan was to park at Gravasstølen and try find our way up. We started our ascent at 20:54 and it didn't take long until we found tracks in the snow where other had obviously skied down earlier that day, so it was just to follow the tracks to the top. Though part way up it was became obvious that Røseknuten was not a good choice, and the tracks we were following didn't go that >>>

Soleiknuten - Quick Late Evening Topptur

Dato:

27.12.2017

Turlengde:

1:46t

Distanse:

3,3km