Telemark Skiing to Mount Tarløysa in Rauma Municipality (11.04.2020)
| Start point | Nysetra (410m) |
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| Endpoint | Nysetra (410m) |
| Characteristic | Randonnée/Telemark |
| Duration | 2h 19min |
| Distance | 8.3km |
| Vertical meters | 1,427m |
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| Ascents | Tarløysa (1,086m) | 11.04.2020 |
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| Visits of other PBEs | Parkering Nysetra (410m) | 11.04.2020 |
The summit of Mount Tarløysa is located 1.086 m.a.m.s.l., but you don't have to ascend more than about 675 meters to get there, as the parking lot at Nyseter is located at an elevation of about 400 meters. To get there, you go by car to a village called Sandnes, a few kilometers before you reach Åfarnes, and there, at Sandnes, you take a little gravel road up the mountain side. The road has a few hairpin bends, and you have to pay a fee of about 60 NOK to be allowed to use it; but then, after a few minutes you arrive at the parking lot at Nyseter (image #1). As may be seen on the picture, the parking lot is quite spacious, though it is also used by cabin owners in the area. Snow had been quite scarce this winter (a month later it was abundant, though); and the advantage of setting out from a parking lot located about 400 m.a.m.s.l. is that you're less likely to have to carry your ski several kilometers before you can actually put them on.
Skiing upward from the parking lot was rather straight forward. Initially, you pass through an area with a number of cabins/cottages, and then you ascend towards the north knoll of mount Tarløysa. You don't actually continue to the top of this north knoll, you just follow the west side of it southwards, and then, after a while, the south knoll, with the summit of the mountain, all of a sudden appears in front of you (image #4). Climbing the north side of the wasn't as straight forward as the ascent had been up to no, however. This face of the mountain is quite stony, and the huge stones were standing out of the snow, as wind had been blowing much of the snow away. Now, finding a way in between the stones, could be quite tricky, and passing to the left of them seemed dangerous, du to the presence of a huge snow shelf overhanging a steep cliff on that side; hence passing on the right side of the stones seemed to be the best option. The slope to the right side of the stones is about 30deg, but the risk of an avalanche just there didn't seem high, as the snow that had been falling lately, had been blown away.
I somehow managed to get to the summit, although the snow was extremely crusty (I wished I had brought with me a pair of crampons). One guy that had been starting out a few minutes before me, and whom I had overtaken just as we were embarking upon this last stony climb towards the summit, actually gave up because he tended to slip and fall, every time he got back up on his feet. On the summit I just captured a few images, and then embarked upon my descent. It was cold, windy, and quite snowy up there, hence there was no point in remaining for a prolonged time. There is a cabin up there, in which you may find shelter in weather like this, but a lot of snow had been laid down in front of the door by the strong winds; hence in order to get in, you would first have to use at least half an our just to remove snow by a shovel. The trip back down was uneventful. Snow was dry and nice in the upper parts of the mountain, but from about 700 m.a.m.s.l. down to the parking lot, it was increasingly wet; hence the skis were not sliding as nicely as they did higher up. I had, however, still a very nice ski ride down from the mountain; and soon I was back down by the car.
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