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A Different Climb on the Godøy Island and Mount Storehornet

Date:
25.07.2015
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
6:00h
Distance:
17.8km

I went exploring the more inaccessible parts of the island Godøy this day. I've been waiting with this particular trip till I was all on my own, in order not to endanger the lives of my kids or my cousins, or anyone else that would like to join me on hiking. I parked my old car close to Alnes Lighthouse, then walked the shore towards the west-most point of the island. From there I climbed up the mountainside to Lestahalsen or Rantane, and then descended to the lake Alnesvatnet. I next walked (and some places climbed) along the eastern shore of the lake, then, from the north end of the lake started climbing towards the top of Storehornet, the highest peak of the island, with its 495 meters above mean sea level. From Storehornet I descended to Djuv, and from Djuv I finally returned to Alnes >>>

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Crossing Mount Storhornet on Godøy Island from east to west

Date:
18.07.2015
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
3:40h
Distance:
8.9km

On this day I had a very nice hike on Godøy Island with my cousin Alexander from America. The Tall Ships Races had been in Ålesund for the last few days, and there was going to be a ship parade as all the ships were destined to leave Ålesund for their next harbor on this particular day. We had planned to climb the mountain of Godøy island in order to get a really good view of the Tall Ships Parade from the very summit of the mountain as the ships were departing. As we were driving towards the island, however, we noticed that much of the mountain on the island was concealed by low clouds, however, and so we decided to watch the tall ships from the breakwater of the Hogstein Lighthouse instead. It was an amazing experience to watch all these ships (Images 1 and 2). This event took some hours, >>>

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Bicycle ride to mountains Rundemanen and Blåmanen.

Date:
10.07.2015
Characteristic:
Bike trip - off-road
Duration:
2:13h
Distance:
19.1km

I had a nice little bicycle ride in the Bergen mountains on this evening; on the mountains Fløyen, Rundemanen and Blåmanen. I started out from the road Haukelandsbakken, where I've been renting an apartment in Bergen, and road down to Årstad in the valley between the mountains Ulriken and Fløyen, and then up the mountain side of Mount Fløyen, passing the high class restaurant called Bellevue due to its splendid view over Bergen. I continued upwards, zigzagging up to the football field of Skansemyren, right after which I took sharply up to the right, continuing up a mountain road that eventually leads to the summit of the mountain. The road is paved up to the a restaurant calle Fløyen Folkerestaurant [i.e. "Mount Fløyen People's Restaurant"] and to the end-stop of the Funicular >>>

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From Djuv to Storehornet on Godøy Island

Date:
04.07.2015
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:49h
Distance:
3.3km

On this day I had a very nice trip to the summit of Storhornet on Godøy Island along with my older daughter. We went by car to a nice parking spot that has been made for mountain trekkers at Gjuv, and started our trek from there. The path up to about 270 m.a.m.s.l. is quite nice though a little bit wet in the upper part. Following this path you reach a mountain pass between Mount Storhornet on one side and Mount Lesten on the other side. From there the rather nice path goes down to the lake Alnesvatnet. Just there in the pass, however, you just take a track up to the right [i.e. eastwards], and this track will then lead you up to the summit of Storhornet. On this particular day, we noticed as we embarked on this last, rather steep climb, that the summit of the mountain was shrouded in clouds. >>>

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