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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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Across Hellen festning

Date:
04.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:45h
Distance:
3.6km

Short local afternoon hike.

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Hellemyrstien

Date:
03.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:07h
Distance:
5.7km

Short local evening hike.

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Ørneberget and Rognåsen

Date:
02.08.2023
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:24h
Distance:
6.4km

Short local afternoon hike.

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