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Trekking an Extreme Variant of Romsdalseggen Mountain Ridge

Date:
18.07.2020
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Duration:
6:47h
Distance:
16.9km

I have previously trekked the mountain range called Romsdalseggen with my oldest son and a nephew of me. A link to my tour description of that hike is here: Blånebba og Romsdalseggen The text in that tour description is in Norwegian, but there are some pictures there, that will do even for an international audience. There have, however, been described three different routes called Romsdalseggen by the local tour operators in the Rauma Municipality: There's what they call Romsdalseggen Light . Then there's Romsdalseggen Regular . And finally, there's what has been referred to as Romsdalseggen Extreme . The regular route follows the blue GPS-track on the map of Image#5, and is even the one described in my above mentioned tour description of July 14th 2018. The light route follows the regular route from the parking lot at >>>

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Halvmarathon på Emblemsfjellet i Ålesund

Date:
17.07.2020
Characteristic:
Jogging
Duration:
4:40h
Distance:
22.7km

For dem av oss som ikke bare går turer i fjellet, men også driver og løper litt, så går det an å plukke med seg noen ikke altfor høye topper når man likevel er på løpetur. Jeg har de siste syv årene ukependlet mellom Bergen og Ålesund, og pleier hver å få meg en løpetur over Rundemanen i løpet av arbeidsuka i Bergen; mens jeg i løpet av helga hjemme pleier å ta meg en fjelltur enten på Sunnmøre eller i Romsdalen. Når så sommeren kommer, pleier jeg å ta meg noen løpeturer om morgenen de stedene vi reiser på ferie, og jeg har funnet ut at det er en glimrende måte å bli kjent med geografien og omgivelsene på nye steder. Denne sommeren ble det imidlertid, på grunn av Covid-19-pandemien, ikke noen feriereise på oss; og de ukene vi skulle ha vært i Canada, ble hjemme >>>

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Ascending Mount Setnesfjellet with my Son

Date:
04.07.2020
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Duration:
6:28h
Distance:
8.6km

This morning, my son asked med if I would like to join him for a hike to the summit of Mount Setnesfjellet. He had been planning this climb for a few days, and had searched out some tour descriptions on the internet; and so he knew exactly where to park the car, and where to start hiking. So, after breakfast, we drove to the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma Municipality in the county of Möre & Romsdal. The drive to Åndalsnes takes a little less than two hours from where we live, and it is surrounded by a multitude of spectacular peaks and mountains; and the local tourist business association have nicknamed the town The Peak Capital [Norw.: Tindehovedstaden] , in order to draw more climbers and hikers to the area. We parked the car by a local Church called Grytten Kirke, and started walking from >>>

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Alpine Ski Touring to Mount Alnestind

Date:
01.07.2020
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
2:17h
Distance:
5.2km

Mount Alnestinden have for years been cherished by many Norwegians as a mountain that you may summit on skis long after the snow’s gone along the trails to the summit of other mountains. The mountain has a long ridge on the east side, and the ski route up to the summit runs along the north side of this ridge. As this is on the leeward side of the mountain, a lot of snow accumulates along the route during winter, and it takes time for it to melt away during the summer months. Moreover, there’s little sun on this north side of the ridge much of the year, and this further contributes to a rather slow meltdown of the snow. In late spring, and during the summer months, i.e. when the Trollstigen escarpment road has been plowed and reopened after the winter months; the skiing trip to Mount Alnestinden >>>

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To the "Troll Church" with my sister and my daughter.

Date:
27.06.2020
Duration:
8:19h
Distance:
14.6km

The Troll Church [Norwegian: Trollkyrkja] is a fascinating series of three caves that a little river have carved out of a marble stratum in the the mountain. The mountain is, apart from that layer, formed by granite, and granite is what you mostly see on the surface of the ground up there; but as you enter the caves, you'll notice that the walls, the ceiling, and the floor of the caves are all marble, adding to the beauty of these caves. I have previously twice visited the Troll Church. First, I visited it alone on October 19th 2019; and since I found it quite fascinating, one week later, I even took my wife there for a visit [i.e. on October 26th]. On both of these occasions I wrote the tour description in Norwegian, but for the photos, and for the GPS tracking of these trips, you may follow >>>

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Round Trip over Tindfjell, Blåskjærdingen and Rekdalshesten

Date:
06.06.2020
Duration:
8:47h
Distance:
20.6km

I have ascended Mount Blåskjerdingen multiple times, sometimes on ski during winter, and sometimes on foot during summer. The mountain has a characteristic cleft, about 30 meters deep, close to the summit, and so it has a southern top of 1062 m.a.m.s.l. in addition to the main or northern peak of 1069 m.a.m.s.l. The mountain is usually climbed from the south, and when ascending it by skis during winter, you usually just visit the slightly lower southern peak, as you can't traverse the cleft with skis on. If you want to go all the way to the northern peak during winter, you should switch from skis and poles to crampons and an ice axe before you embark on climbing the cleft; and yet there would be the danger of climbing on a snow shelf that could break off, if you're not familiar with the wind >>>

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Round Trip over Mountains Oterfjellet, Storhaugen and Melen

Date:
30.05.2020
Characteristic:
Mixed climbing
Duration:
6:15h
Distance:
15.0km

When trekking a very high mountain, it's usually sufficient to ascend one at a time. When climbing smaller mountains, however, it's often quite feasible to ascend two, three or four in a row; especially if they're interconnected by some sort of a ridge, so that you don't have to descend too much when traversing from one mountain to the next. Now, there are three mountains in the Vestnes Municipality in the County of Møre & Romsdal that I had never climbed before, and which I wanted to climb on this particular day. I have seen all three of them multiple times from afar, but I had not ascended any of them until now. I drove to the Reset Parking Lot (see map and GPS-track) just on the border between the Municipalities of Ålesund and Vestnes, and started trekking from there. I passed south >>>

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Tour Skiing to Mount Auskjeret with my Daugther

Date:
23.05.2020
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
3:18h
Distance:
7.2km

We woke up early this morning, and went in my daughter’s RAV4 to the Overøye Stordal Alpine Center [N: Overøye Stordal Skisenter]. Due to heavy snowfall over two weeks, followed by rapid thawing over the next few days, there had been a lot of avalanches over the last 4 days; hence when discussing this trip the previous evening, we had been quite eager to pick a mountain that we could hike without climbing any slopes exceeding 30°. Auskjeret in Fjord Municipality is well known as a “safe mountain”; i.e. people even climb it when huge avalanches have just occurred on the neighbour mountain which is called Ørastolen. [We actually climbed Mount Ørastolen a little more than a year ago, my daughter, and I; and just three weeks later there was a tremendous avalanche traversing the entire >>>

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Ski Touring to Mount Kyrkjetaket [i.e. "The Church Roof"]

Date:
18.05.2020
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
4:43h
Distance:
13.6km

This was my second attempt at ascending Mount Kyrkjetaket [i.e. The Church Roof ] in Rauma Municipality in the County of Møre & Romsdal. My first attempt was about two weeks earlier, but then I climbed only up to Mount Steinberget (981 m.a.m.s.l.); where I turned around and went back down due to bad weather conditions and low visibility. It's a common saying in Norway, that There's no shame in turning around , meaning that if the weather's not on your side, it's better to abandon the goal for your ski tour and survive, than to push on, and then die in the attempt to reach the goal. Right now I was having one week off work, and I had been planning to make a new attempt on Mount Kyrkjetaket this week. I had actually been thinking of visiting the mountain on the wednesday or so, but according >>>

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Alpine Ski Touring to Mount Smørbottind and Mount Kvasstind

Date:
09.05.2020
Duration:
3:46h
Distance:
12.0km

Whenever I’ve been mountain skiing throughout the last few years (i.e. on trips shared here on PeakBook), I’ve always been using my Scottybob Telemark skis. I have been dreaming of buying a nice pair of alpine touring skis as well, however, but due to the cost connected with such a procurement, I’ve not done it until now. I’ve been having a nice pair of off piste skis that have been stored in our garage, and which I haven’t been using for a numbers of years. I actually bought them as a pair of Telemark skis back in 2007 or 2008, and I used them quite a lot for the first few years, but I stopped using them after I got my Telemark-specific Scottybob skis. For a number of years now, I’ve been thinking of mounting some alpine bindings onto my old off piste skis, as the Völkl Mantra

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