On Mount Ulriken with my Son Dag

Date:

15.04.2014

Characteristic:

Hillwalk

© Atle Solholm 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 >>>