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On Mount Ulriken with my Son Dag

Datum:
15.04.2014
Tourcharakter:
Bergtour

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 >>>

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To Mount Galdhøpiggen across Glacier Styggebreen

Datum:
20.07.2006

This was the year that my wife said to me: Atle, this summer you'll have to take our kids with you and go somewhere on summer holiday without me, because i will have to work. She was studying to become a nurse at this time, and she had decided that she had to work at our local hospital almost all summer, to ensure she'd get a foot on the inside, as this would enhance her chances of getting a job there when summer was over. So, I decided to take our kids with me on a holiday destination that I knew it would be difficult to talk my wife into going on, i.e. Mount Galdhøpiggen, Norway's highest mountain. Talking my children into trekking Mount Galdhøpiggen was not as difficult as you'd think. They all love skiing in alpine ski arenas, and at this time, since it was summer, it had been a couple >>>

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