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Mountain skiing to Mount Skarven in Rauma Municipality

Date:
28.03.2020
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
3:13h
Distance:
7.0km

I've named this trip "Mountain skiing to Mount Skarven...", as it was neither a pure Telemark trip, nor was it a pure alpine touring ski trip. It was combined. My son Dag was testing out his touring ski equipment for first time, whereas I was still using my old Telemark equipment. We went to Skorgedalen in Rauma municipality in my son's car, and parked the car at the parking lot in the valley. The parking lot serves a little ski resort in the valley, as well as the many cabins / holiday cottages surrounding it; but the parking lot is huge, and the ski resort was currently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemia, hence finding a spot to park our car was no problem. We got our equipment on, and started out. The ski trail towards Mount Skarven started right there, hence we didn't have to >>>

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Telemark Skiing to Mount Litleskjerdingen

Date:
15.02.2020
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
3:55h
Distance:
8.4km

On this particular afternoon I actually intended to go skiing to Mount Blåskjerdingen, but while on my way up there I had to change my destination slightly due to lack of snow. Mount Blåskjerdingen is quite steep on most sides, with snow shelves and a high risk of avalanches here and there, but the south ridge of the mountain is less steep, and is located on the windward side of the mountain ; hence you're unlikely to run into an avalanche when ascending along that ridge, and so, as long as you stick to the south ridge, Mount Blåskjerdingen is considered a relatively safe mountain for winter skiing (as long as you don't go upon the large snow shelves on the east side [i.e. the leeward side] of the summit area). On the other hand, as the south ridge is located on the windward side, snow tends >>>

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Skiing to Mount Høgsvora along with my daughter

Date:
08.02.2020
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
3:57h
Distance:
11.9km

Mount Høgsvora in the county of Møre & Romsdal is considered a relatively safe mountain to go ski touring as far as the avalanche risk is concerned, as long as you ascend the mountain along the usual route, i.e. the one you'll find on our GPS tracking of this trip. We drove to a camping site of Svarttjønnhaugen in a valley called Vaksvikdalen , me and my daughter Vår vaarsolholm (Vår Solholm) . This camping site has some cabins for hire, but the important thing for us was that they allow people to park on their site for a little fee, even if you're not going to hire a cabin or a spot for your tent; and once you've paid the fee, you're free to use their toilet facilities, which may be nice when you get back down from the mountain. When snow is scarce, you may drive all the way up to Sollisætra, which I once did >>>

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Hiking to Mount Geitnausa with my daughter

Date:
01.02.2020
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
2:21h
Distance:
8.1km

The town of Ålesund is located on four islands in the county of Møre & Romsdal, beautifully, in between fjords and mountains. One of the four islands, the one called Uksenøya, has a mountain ridge generally referred to as Emblemsfjellet [i.e. the Emblem mountain, after a village called Emblem on the south side of the mountain. This mountain actually have a number of peaks, i.e. Høgkubben, Geitnausa, Vasstrandegga and Merafta . Now, I've actually been to all of these summits, but the advantage of this mountain is that it is close to the town, and it's easy to get there whenever you want to. So, we drove to a place called Myrdalen, in the part of the town that is called Spjelkavika; and then we set out from there, aiming for the peak called Geitnausa. There actually is a nice forest road >>>

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To Mount Vasstrandegga in Rainy Weather

Date:
11.01.2020
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
3:45h
Distance:
13.7km

We had a hike to the mountain called Vasstrandegga on this day, my son and I. We started out from a parking lot in a hollow called Sirigrova . This parking lot is mainly used by trekkers intending to ascend one of the nearby mountains, hence it wasn't the first time we parked there. There's a little mountain road winding its way through the valley Østremsdalen up to a cluster of cottages called Østremssætra , once used for caretakers of domestic animals (mainly sheep) when they were grazing in the mountains during summer. We followed the road up to Østremssætra, then took left along a tiny forest path, which we followed upwards into the mountains. We lost the trail at some point during our climb, due to some slight amount of snow here and there, but it didn't really matter much, as we had >>>

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Another Hike to Mount Gamlemsveten

Date:
04.01.2020
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
2:42h
Distance:
9.4km

In winter time, whenever snow is to scarce for mountain skiing, and yet too abundant for an ordinary mountain hike on foot; then Mount Gamlemsveten is a very good option. There has been built a huge TV broadcasting antenna at the very summit, and there are even some other telecommunication installations up there as well. A construction road was once built up to the summit for the purpose of bringing material like plank, concrete and iron up there when the TV antenna was built; hence even when there's quite some snow, the ground beneath is pretty even, and not as stony as it usually is in mountains like this. On the other hand, the road up there is usually not plowed, and cars are not allowed apart from those that take part in maintenance work on the installations up there; hence you are very >>>

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Icy Hike to the Peaks Litlehornet and Uggedalshornet

Date:
28.12.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:49h
Distance:
5.5km

We have ascended Mount Gamlemsveten multiple times, my son and I but there have been a number of smaller mountains around Gamlemsveten that we haven't climbed yet; or at least I haven't, as my son have climbed a lot of mountains that I have yet to climb. So, we decided on this day to climb some of the nearby less-than-500-meters mountains, and took my son's car to the usual parking lot in Søvikdalen valley. The initial part of the route was the same as when we climbed Mount Storehornet and Mount Skålbotsheia 3 weeks earlier; i.e. you pass by a shooting range located about 800 meters from the parking lot, and then climb up from the innermost "bottom" of the valley, into a hanging valley called Engsetskaret and located at an elevation about 200 meters above the main valley [i.e. about >>>

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Winter Hike to Mount Tverrfjellet on Sula Island

Date:
21.12.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
3:18h
Distance:
11.7km

It was only 3 weeks since last time I ascended Mount Sulafjellet with my son, and yet we decided to go there again, as we regard this trip as a good workout. My youngest daughter vaarsolholm (Vår Solholm) also came along with us on this occasion. As previously, we walked the forest road up to Rollonhytta Cabin, and from there we just followed the mountain path that continues up to the summit of the mountain. Snow was less abundant now, compared to what it was three weeks ago; hence the cairns that mark the trail were easy to spot, and it was, therefore, much easier to follow the trail up to the summit of the mountain. We just shot a few pictures while at the top of the mountain, and then went back down to our car at Mauseid parking lot.

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To Mount Gamlemsveten in Not So Much Snow

Date:
14.12.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
2:21h
Distance:
9.0km

The amount of snow along the Norwegian west coast is varying quite much throughout the winter, as well as from one winter to another. Typically, low pressure weather systems that come in from the northwest bring snow, whereas those coming in from the southwest bring rain; and so the snow may come and go as the whether changes. On this day, therefore there was some snow in the mountains along the coast, but not very much. We've climbed Mount Gamlemsveten many times, my son Dag and I, so this is a very familiar mountain to us; especially to Dag, as he has climbed it many more times than what I have done. I did, however, once even climb it on a 29" Gary Fisher bicycle; something he hasn't done; hence I tend to claim it's a little bit my mountain too... We drove to the usual parking lot in >>>

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To Mount Storhornet and Mount Skålbotsheia in Snow

Date:
07.12.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
3:10h
Distance:
8.9km

I have previously visited many of the mountains in the municipality of Haram , a municipality that is soon to be merged with the town of Ålesund. While ascending mount Tverrbotshornet and mount Gamlemsveten, I have been looking at a number of smaller peaks and mountains in the vicinity, desiring to ascend even them. My son Dag had been on most of them, however, and on this day he agreed to take me up to one or two of them. (During summer, I could've found my way up there by myself, but on this day there was about 30 cm of snow along most of the route, hence you wouldn't be able to follow the trail unless you knew where it was). We drove to Søvikdalen parking lot, and started trekking from there. We followed a forest road further into the valley. After about 800 meters, we came to a shooting >>>

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