Round Trip over Mountains Oterfjellet, Storhaugen and Melen

Date:

30.05.2020

Characteristic:

Mixed climbing

Duration:

6:15h

Distance:

15.0km

© Atle Solholm When trekking a very high mountain, it's usually sufficient to ascend one at a time. When climbing smaller mountains, however, it's often quite feasible to ascend two, three or four in a row; especially if they're interconnected by some sort of a ridge, so that you don't have to descend too much when traversing from one mountain to the next. Now, there are three mountains in the Vestnes Municipality in the County of Møre & Romsdal that I had never climbed before, and which I wanted to climb on this particular day. I have seen all three of them multiple times from afar, but I had not ascended any of them until now. I drove to the Reset Parking Lot (see map and GPS-track) just on the border between the Municipalities of Ålesund and Vestnes, and started trekking from there. I passed south >>>