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Tricky times on Helgelands-bukken
- Date:
- 14.06.2025
Took the Engabreen ferry and wlked broad track (wished for bikes) to glacier slabs. Marked trail and ropes/chains on rock slabs. Steep marked beaten trail up to ridges below hut. Large snow patches. Went into mist and needed careful navigation. In decreasing visibility, we had long snowy sections and uphill rocky sections. There were hardly any waymarks. We put on stiff boots and crampons and passed a red (waymark) spot. Our phone map was good and I took a rough compass bearing, but could not find more marks. This was getting quite serious. We had to get through to the hut, could not go back (no ferry) and did not know our exact location. We had no foreknowledge of the ground, and there was no trail or footprints. We made a short retreat and repeated one section, and returned to our high point. >>>
Torghatten
- Date:
- 10.06.2025
The red paint-marked path took us up slabs over a rocky crest with pools in crevasses and then up steeper rocks provided with a chain. I found the chain got in the way up and down and effectively made it harder to climb. A much less steep section lead to the summit. There is a little communication mast here. We wondered how essential it was on this small island. The mast and its electricity pylons were a bit of an eyesore, to be honest. We drank in the view for a while. A Hurtigbåt passed, weaving through the islands. As we moved off a swallowtail butterfly was being mobbed by red admiral butterflies. Neither of us had seen swallowtail before. We climbed down beside the dratted chain to the trail round the West side of the mountain. Then we climbed the excellent trail construction to the cave >>>
