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Kveldstur til Ulriken

Date:
29.10.2014
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Distance:
5.0km

Jeg arbeider i Bergen, og leier en pendlerbolig i Haukelandsbakken, så jeg går ofte tur opp på Ulriken og ned igjen. Som oftest har jeg valgt traséen gjennom skogen under Ulriksbanen på vei opp, så også denne dagen. Halvveis oppe tok jeg Bergen-by-night-bildet ovenfor. Jeg fortsatte opp til toppen (med toppen mener jeg her vest-toppen på 607 m.o.h.).

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Til Myklebusthornet på Ellingsøya med Dag

Date:
11.10.2014
Characteristic:
Hillwalk

Det var min sønn Dag som denne dagen spurte om jeg ville være med ham opp på Myklebusthornet på Ellingsøya, og jeg takket ja til det. Han hadde vært der oppe flere ganger før, og var godt kjent. Vi parkerte ved skolen/idrettshallen på Vik, og fulgte skogsveien derfra oppover til vi kom opp på ryggen mellom Vikanakken og Sperrenakken . Omtrent akkurat oppe på vannskillet tok vi av fra veien, og fulgte en sti vestover mot Sperrenakken [320 m.o.h.] og Myklebusthornet [329 m.o.h.]. Stien vestover er grei å følge. Vi passerte først Kleiva [214 m.o.h.], og kom så til Sperrenakken [320 m.o.h.], som her på Peakbook går under betegnelsen Myklebusthornet Østre. Like vest for Sperrenakken er det en litt bratt skrent som man må ta seg ned, men som er helt grei så lenge det ikke er vått >>>

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On Mount Løvstakken with my Son Dag

Date:
10.05.2014
Characteristic:
Hike

The city of Bergen has traditionally been called The City Between Seven Mountains, though there’s traditionally also been a dispute as to which of the many mountains around the city actually comprises the seven. Nevertheless, Mount Løvstakken is generally agreed upon to be one of the seven, and I had therefore had a desire for some time to visit this mountain. I had been working in Bergen for a little less than a year at this time, despite living in a different part of Norway; and as my oldest son was visiting me in Bergen this weekend, I suggested to him that we ascend Mount Løvstakken on this day. We went by car from my Bergen apartment to the valley between Mount Løvstakken and Mount Olsokfjellet, i.e. to a location called Melkeplassen, and started trekking from there. The trail that >>>

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On Mount Ulriken with my Son Dag

Date:
15.04.2014
Characteristic:
Hillwalk

I had been working at the university hospital in Bergen since september 2013, and now my oldest son Dag was visiting me in Bergen; and so in the afternoon we decided to hike up to the summit of Mount Ulriken. The mountain has a cable car that you may use to get up there, but our intention with the ascent was to get a workout, and so we abandoned the cable car, and started to climb along a trail just beneath were the cable car goes. The first part of our trail goes through forest, but as you approach the top of the mountain, the trees become more scarce, and all of a sudden it is gone. On Mount Ulriken, what seems to be the top of the mountain as you're climbing, isn't actually the summit of the mountain; it's just a knoll or a ridge a little bit west of the summit. The real top of the mountain >>>

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