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Rødtinden

Datum:
07.04.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark

Until now, the thought of taking a trip up Rødtinden has never appealed to me. It's 25m short of only 500m high, ca. 2km from the road in Storelva and attracts as many crowds in the same way as a British high street would do. Kjedelig has always been my conclusion. However, after injuring my leg on Sydalsfjellet two weeks earlier and still not having regained complete freedom of movement, I finally decided to give in and reduce my skiing ambitions for a while. Rødtinden was now on my list of trips worth considering. After almost 2 weeks of continual bad weather, high skredfare and numerous skred-related incidents in Tromsø, today dawned bright and sunny and there was a proper påskestemning outdoors. It would have been pretty shameful to have yet another working-at-home-at-the-weekend day. >>>

Skadet på Sydalsfjellet

Datum:
23.03.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Entfernung:
7,0km

After having had a short trip on our first day in Lofoten, Aline and I were super-enthusiastic to have a longer ski trip. Sydalsfjellet turned out to be the only ‘full’ topptur option, since the other trips which were being run on the Saturday were either skogskjøring or ski/surf combination. Fortunately both of us managed to get a place on the Sydalsfjellet trip before the sign-up list had filled up. Unfortunately the weather didn’t look all that promising in the beginning of the day when we met up with our guides Marius and Bjørn at 9am at the Henningsvær Bryggehotell. Altogether there were 13 participants on the trip, so it was a relatively large group. Null visibility and light snow was not at all inspirational, but we clambered on board the minibus anyway with a dash of hope that >>>

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Breitinden (Ringvassøya)

Datum:
20.03.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Entfernung:
14,0km

I dag ble det en jentetur til Breitinden på Ringvassøya med både Kristin og Aline. Det var flott å ha Aline med på tur igjen, spesielt fordi det hadde blitt nesten to måneder siden vår siste tur sammen. Strålende sol, lite vind og et nytt fjell som turmål gjorde at vi følte oss veldig spent på å komme oss ut på tur så fort som mulig. Heldigvis var reisen til utgangspunktet ved Simavika bare en halv time bilkjøring fra Tromsø. Dro relativt tidlig fra Tromsø omtrent kl.9.30, så var det kl.10.15 da vi begynte turen. Vi visste at turen skulle bli enkel med en jevn, slak stigning nesten hele ruten oppover. Vi valgte å bruke veien som gikk inn i Ytredalen og det var et par kilometer før vi tok av til høyre (sør) siden av dalen og begynte å få spist noen høydemetre gjennom >>>

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Nonstindtraversen med FSG

Datum:
16.03.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark

After what had seemed like a long time since my last trip with the fjellsportgruppa, it was finally time for another fellestur. This time the objective was a traverse of Nonstinden. And now that I had built up a little toppturing experience with half a dozen or so ski trips since investing in a pair of randonee skis two months earlier, I was under the (perhaps false) belief that my skiing had graduated to a level of proficiency to potentially keep up with a group of Norwegian ski-masters. While the group actually turned out to be a rather international mixture of Norwegian, Swedish, Polish and British, it turned out that I had overestimated my ability to steer a pair of planks on my feet downhill. Nevertheless, my uphill skiing abilities seem not to present any problem at all, apart from causing >>>

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Ullstinden, nok en gang

Datum:
02.03.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Entfernung:
9,0km

Turned out to be a bit of a mixed day. I met with Kristin at 10.00 and the plan was to drive to Kastnes, a little way from Oldervik and ski up Stortuva. It is known to be a little-visited top, and I thought the route looked like quite a nice one to try out. But first of all we had to actually get to Oldervik, which was something of a nightmare to drive. After a week of rain and windy weather, the road between Tønsnes and Skittenelv had masses of what can only be described as hard icy potholes (maybe there is a special word in Norwegian which I don't actually know) along the way. My car was not impressed. And being a front-wheel drive it was not really built to deal with awful road surfaces like that. So we had to literally stop every time before driving carefully over those patches and it >>>

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Fagerfjellet

Datum:
06.02.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Tourlänge:
3:30h

Jeg og Kristin tok denne korte turen til Fagerfjellet som en formiddagstur. Jeg hentet Kristin fra Lauksletta kl.8.30 og vi kjørte til parkeringsplassen (egentlig en bussholdeplass) ved siden av veien litt utenfor Fagernes. Snøen var myk og lett å gå opp til vi nådde tregrensen. Deretter var det avblåst på mesteparten av fjellet, og så var snøoverflaten ikke jevn. Det ble litt bedre i høyden, men da vi kom til varden var det bare isete snø. Derimot var det flotte utsikt mot sør langs hele Lavangsdalen. Med sola i ansiktene våre, var det nesten vårstemning. Toppen var vindstille og Hamperokken sin profil var fantastisk å stirre på :-) Vi brukte omtrent 20 minutter på toppen siden det føltes så varmt og utsikt var så nydelig. Vi hadde tid å slappe av, drikke cappuccino og >>>

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Nordfjellet

Datum:
03.02.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Tourlänge:
5:00h

Initially there was going to be just Kristin and myself on this trip to Ringvassøya, which we talked about doing after our day out on Stormheimfjellet. But after some thinking, we thought that it could perhaps be quite fun to have a few others joining on the trip. Unexpectedly the group soared from 2 to 10 just the day before we went, after friends decided to bring along other companions too! So we ended up being a convoy of 4 cars driving to a relatively small parking spot on the side of the road by Sandelva where we planned to start the trip up Nordfjellet. Fortunately the small parking space turned out to be large enough to accommodate at least 7 or 8 cars, so there was no problem with squeezing everyone in. Somehow Siv and Ingvild had got lost on the way, but after a quick phone call to >>>

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Stormheimfjellet

Datum:
30.01.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Tourlänge:
4:30h
Entfernung:
14,0km

Bare noen dager turen til Gråtinden bestemte vi (jeg og Kristin) oss for å ta en annen tur i midten av uka, siden jeg hadde ikke så mye arbeid å få gjort for tida og vi begge var fleksibel med når vi kunne komme oss ute for å oppleve enda mer av de flotte fjellene omkring Tromsø. Imidlertid begynte dagen ikke så nydelig med mye tåke i byen og ingen utsikt. Jeg følte meg ikke fristet av dette været, men likevel hadde masse håp på at det skulle bli bedre i løpet av dagen. Jeg var fremdeles optimistisk at værmeldingen hadde det rett og vi skulle få en klar himmel og litt glimt av sola. Da jeg kjørte ut av byen og hentet Kristin fra Lauksletta, hadde været allerede forandret seg mye og det så flott ut mot Breivikeidet. Mens vi var i bilen, diskuterte vi om vi skulle få en tur >>>

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Gråtinden skitopp

Datum:
27.01.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Tourlänge:
3:00h

Today's trip to Gråtinden was with a relatively large group comprised of friends and friends of friends. We met up at the car park by K1 at about 9.45 before beginning the drive towards Straumsbukta. It felt a little chilly when we were stood around in the car park, but as we drove out of town it in fact got chillier, reaching -16 in places. I started to wonder whether I had dressed myself properly for that sort of temperature or not. It warmed up to -14 by the time we reached the pocket by the side of the road where we parked up, but even that was 6 degrees colder than in town. Oh well, I could only hope that maybe it was going to be one of those days with warmer temperatures at the top of the mountain than at sea level. The low level fog and clouds lingering around seemed to suggest that >>>

Ullstinden

Datum:
26.01.2013
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Tourlänge:
4:30h
Entfernung:
10,0km

Dagens tur til Ullstinden begynte med en 45-minutters biltur til Snarby, etter at jeg hadde hentet Jennifer hjemmefra. Vi planla å møte med Kamila og noen andre av vennene sine omtrent kl.10 ved parkeringsplassen. Vi trodde at vi ikke skulle blitt så mange på dette fjellet i dag pga mange ville ta en tur til f.eks. Gorzelvtinden eller Fagerfjellet, men vi var helt overrasket å se at vår bil var en av mange som fylte opp parkeringsplassen. Hadde ikke forventet at så mange turfolk ville velge dette fjellet for en tur! Men det var uansett en ganske artig stemning, selv om det betydde at vi måtte følge bak andre folk en liten stund før vi kom over tregrensen. I tillegg var det egentlig morsomt å treffe andre turkompiser som jeg ikke hadde avtalt å ta turen med. Så mange som jeg kjente!

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