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Furukammen

Date:
19.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:49h
Distance:
4.8km

Short local Saturday hike.

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Hamlagrøvatnet to Norheimsund

Date:
18.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
8:37h
Distance:
29.6km

Given the excellent weather forecast I took the Friday off to try one of my more ambitious hiking plans: walking from Hamlagrøvatnet in Bergsdalen to Steinsdalsfossen in Norheimsund. The main goal was to visit the three remaining summits I had left along this route. I started by taking the train to Dale and the bus to the western end of Hamlagrøvatnet. Officially the last bus stop was at Rødland/Røydland, but given that the bus driver had plenty of time before the return journey to Dale he was kind enough to drive me all the way to the lake, saving me about half an hour of walking along the road. From Hamlagrøosen I basically followed the marked trail to Vending . However, when the trail entered Langagjelet, and was about to ascend the final small hill before descending to the cabin, I turned northwest >>>

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Fagerdalsfjellet and Midtneset

Date:
17.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
0:33h
Distance:
2.5km

Short local evening hike for a quick test of my new hiking shoes.

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
15.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:56h
Distance:
4.0km

Short local evening hike catching the sunset at Hellen festning.

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
14.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:46h
Distance:
3.6km

Short local evening hike. Almost made it home before it started raining.

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Norddalsfjellet, Sørdalsfjellet and Saudalsnovi

Date:
12.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
8:05h
Distance:
21.0km

Initially I had other hiking plans for this Saturday, but when Fjellsamleren (Endre Myrdal Olsen) asked if I wanted to join him on a hike in Norddalen at the end of Øvstedalen, an area that is pretty much unreachable by public transport, I of course quickly changed my plans. Endre picked me up at my place at 08:15 and after driving as far up Øvstedalen as possible, passing through two gates on a narrow gravel road, we found parking near the end of the road at Øykholmane and were ready to start hiking around 09:45. The road quickly turned into a wet trail that we followed via a couple of cabins. After crossing the river on a wooden bridge, and managing to avoid the grazing cows in the area, we left the cabins and trail behind and headed off-trail towards Kyrahjellen, which should provide us an easy ascent route to Norddalsfjellet (incorrectly >>>

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
11.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:45h
Distance:
3.7km

Short local hike after work.

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
09.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:39h
Distance:
3.2km

Short local evening hike in the rain.

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Borgundnuten

Date:
06.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:32h
Distance:
7.1km

The last day of my 2023 summer holiday was spent travelling to Borgundøya for an ascent of Borgundnuten . I started by taking the high-speed passenger ferry from Strandkaien in Bergen to Borgundøy. This included a transfer to a corresponding ferry at Leirvik and in total took about two hours. Upon arriving at Borgundøya I followed the paved road to the marked trailhead southeast of the summit and from there followed the marked trail all the way to the large summit cairn. Besides meeting maybe a dozen other hikers at the start of the hike (and one during the descent), I had the mountain all to myself and could fully enjoy the excellent panoramic views. Descended along the same route to the paved road (only adding a short detour to Storaskarnuten ), making sure to call the boat to let them know that I would like to be picked up on their way >>>

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Vossavardane, Hotten and Nordnuken

Date:
05.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
5:50h
Distance:
13.7km

A return to Tjørndalen to visit a couple of minor not previously visited peaks and to see if there were any cloudberries to be found. The former went all according to plan, but the latter was not a big success as we found maybe ten berries in total. There were lots of blueberries though. On the way back to the car I also made a minor detour on my own to the summit of Nordnuken where I managed to find a route that was much better than expected.

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