Pictures and Google Map with our GPS track from this trip. We did climb up the northeast ridge of Mount Remmemstind, until we got to a place where it got a little bit steeper than we were comfortable with at the time. [Since then, however, we have both climbed up to the summit of Mount Remmemstind several times from this side]. On our way back down to the car, we chose a different trail, allowing us to visit the smaller peaks of Vardfjell (705 meters) and Bjørnetua (516 meters), both of them just green PBE's, though.
On this day Dag and I went to Vestnes, the village where my father grew up, and went hiking in some of the mountains of that area. We parked Dag’s car beside my grandfather’s old summer cowshed, which is still there; and started walking through the forest heading for the mountain. We reached the mountain peaks called Vardfjellet and Bjørnetua (705 and 516 meters above sea level, respectively), but the real summit of the area, called Remmemstind (1090 m.a.m.s.l.), we saved for another time; because that climb is really steep. To be honest, we actually did follow the northeast ridge of Mount Remmemstind up to about 1000 m.a.m.s.l. (Mount Remmemstind is 1090 m.a.m.s.l). At this point the ridge became too steep for us to climb since none of us had any real climbing experience at the time. I did notice some tracks to the right of the ridge, behind the edge of the ridge so to say; evidence that people before us had bypassed this steep part of the ridge by continuing upwards in a grass chute to the right of the ridge. We didn't continue up to the summit on this day, but I decided I was going to try that path later on some day. Anyway, weather was splendid, and the view was just awesome on this nice day, as the photos above will confirm.
![Pictures and Google Map with our GPS track from this trip. We did climb up the northeast ridge of Mount Remmemstind, until we got to a place where it got a little bit steeper than we were comfortable with at the time. [Since then, however, we have both climbed up to the summit of Mount Remmemstind several times from this side]. On our way back down to the car, we chose a different trail, allowing us to visit the smaller peaks of Vardfjell (705 meters) and Bjørnetua (516 meters), both of them just green PBE's, though.](https://images1.peakbook.org/images/14939/Solan_20200131_5e34959196f63.jpg?p=xtralarge)
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