Climbing Mohn's Peak and Rander's Peak with my Daughter

Date:

23.09.2017

Characteristic:

Alpine trip

Duration:

6:50h

Distance:

13.6km

© Atle Solholm In the Sunnmøre shire in western Norway, there is a beautiful and somewhat secret valley called Molladalen. The valley is hidden between hight, steep mountains (Image #1), and in this respect reminds me of the valley Plain Awful in Carl Barks' story Lost in the Andes, in which Donald Duck and his nephews launch an expedition into the Andes mountains. Molladalen is, however, everything but awful, and it's not located quite as remotely as Barks' fictional valley. You may actually drive passed quite close to Molladalen without noticing it, and without knowing it is there. The valley is a hanging valley that to the west opens into the larger and deeper valley Barstaddalen, whereas the other sides of the valley (south, north and east) are surrounded by steep mountains with sharp peaks. Due to this >>>