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To Mount Sulafjellet in Somewhat Deep Snow

Date:
30.11.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
3:15h
Distance:
11.8km

I went hiking on Mount Sulafjellet on the island of Sula with my oldest son this day. We started out from the parking spot at Mauseid, and followed the forest road up to a cabin called Rollonhytta (390 m.a.m.s.l.). At this cabin the forest road as well as the forest ends, but there is a narrow path or trail that you may usually follow further up the mountain, and so we did for a km or so. At that point, however we lost the path. There was a lot of snow in the mountain side on this day, hence much of the time we couldn't actually see the path. The trail is, however, marked by small cairns all along its course, and this had helped us until the snow became so deep that the cairns disappeared beneath them. We've been on this mountain many times before, however, so we just continued in somewhat >>>

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Climbing the Meche Awoknesh Mountain

Date:
25.11.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
2:21h
Distance:
5.6km

As we had skipped the hike to the village of Amiwalka (see previous tour description), we were now having one day of mountain trekking left, that we had already paid for, despite being back at the Chennek camp site. In my mind we were having two options for this day: We could either climb the Meche Awoknesh mountain, which is located just east of the camp site; or we could go for Mount Enatye, which is west of the camp site. I had previously climbed both of these mountains (i.e. in 2018), whereas my daughter, who was with me on this tour, hadn’t been on any of them. The Enatye must be said to be a mountain by itself, as it has an elevation of 4070 m.a.m.s.l., and a vertical separation of just a little less than 500 meters; though it is located within a mountain range that also includes Imet >>>

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Round Trip in the Simien Mountains

Date:
22.11.2019
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Duration:
96:21h
Distance:
86.7km

I think this mountain hike, which I did along with my youngest daughter Vår vaarsolholm (Vår Solholm) , our mountain guide Enyew Fikru and a park ranger; is one of the most spectacular hikes that I've ever done. Within just five days, we summited the mountains of Ras Bwahit (4,430 m.a.m.s.l.), Ras Dashen (4,553 meters), Kidis Yared (4,453 meters), Abba Yared (4,409 meters) and Silki (4,420 meters). I had communicated very thoroughly with Dawit (Dave) Yohannes of Ras Dejen Tours in advance of our journey, and we had planned the trip in detail. I knew Dave quite well from the previous year [i.e. 2018], when I visited Gondar, the Simien Mountains, Bahir Dar and The Blue Nile Falls along with my wife; and we had been friends on Facebook since then, hence our communication was now all on Messenger. [You may reach Dave at daveyohannes@yahoo.com >>>

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Hiking to Entoto Mountain with my Daughter Vår

Date:
18.11.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:55h
Distance:
16.7km

I had been in Ethiopia and Addis Ababa for work slightly more than two weeks at this time, though I had also used some time on mountain trekking while there, as well as some time on running/jogging in the city. I had planned to visit the Simien Mountains along with my youngest Daughter vaarsolholm (Vår Solholm) after finishing our work at the Black Lion hospital, and in order to get a bit acclimatized to the altitude, I had even arrived in Addis a few days ahead of the rest of our team. And so, while in Addis I had climbed both the Mount Furi and Mount Wochecha, and I had also 5 times gone running in the streets of Addis. I had actually planned to go running or every second day or so, but then I got a terrible cold that forced me to be a bit careful. Nevertheless, I had been in Addis Ababa (2400 m.a.m.s.l.) long enough >>>

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Climbing Mount Wochecha and encircling the old crater

Date:
02.11.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
8:40h
Distance:
32.1km

I have been to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia several times in connection with my work, and whenever I've been there, I've had a desire to climb or trek some of the mountains that surrounds the city, the highest of which is the Wochecha Mountain. I did actually climb that mountain when I visited Addis a year ago (see PB report in Norwegian dated November 11th 2018), but while standing on the summit, I realized that this mountain top was just the northern rim of an ancient volcanic crater; and you could actually see an almost circular mountain ridge surrounding the old crater while standing up there. As I was planning the current trip to Ethiopia, therefore, I had an idea of encircling the old crater; though I hesitated a little bit, realizing it wasn't quite straight forward to estimate how long time >>>

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