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Store Russetinden

Date:
10.06.2012
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
7:00h

Fjellsportgruppa in Tromso arranged this trip to Store Russetinden, the first hike of the year to begin the summer season. I was very excited to not only be joining a group of new people and have their company, but also to be making an ascent of one of the most beautiful mountains I've ever seen from the E8. So we met up at Nansenplass at 0900 and had a short briefing from the turleder Harald before making the road trip down to Nordkjosbotn in a convoy of 4 cars. I had in my car 3 other girls; Mona from Trondheim, Maja from Denmark and Lena who was from the Balsfjord area (quite a local!). We had a nice chat while driving through a sunlit Ramfjord, and then through Lavangsdalen toward Balsfjord. All the familiar mountains were starting to come into view for me, but the difference was on this >>>

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Skamtinden

Date:
08.06.2012
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
4:00h
Distance:
5.0km

This was a really great evening trip after work, one that nearly didn't happen because it had been a bit of a rainy day and I was thinking to postpone the hike. Fortunately, neither Ane or myself decided to call each other in the end and we met up as planned, at the K1 car park. We took my car out onto Kvaloya and took the road around the northern side of the island towards Tromvik. Up until then the road surface had some bumps but then between Tromvik and Rekvik it turned to gravel instead, so it took a long time just to drive those few kiometres further to Rekvik, where we were starting the hike from. So, straight out of the car it was cool but not cold, and it was straight up the mountain from there. It was a well-marked trail through the forest on the lower part of Skamtinden, which helped >>>

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Andersdaltinden

Date:
16.05.2012
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
5:30h

The weather was forecasted to be 12 degrees and sunshine, so I seized the moment and decided to go on a trip instead of going to work! I decided to return to Andersdaltinden, since I had not made the summit on the previous attempt almost 2 weeks earlier because of really strong winds on the mountain. Parked up at about 0915 at the bottom near the information area and began the hike up through the forests. The snow was, as I expected, super soft but seemed quite stable. But it was mega hard work, and many times during the first half hour of the hike I didn't think I would bother going much farther before giving up on the mission! However, I had my mp3 player banging out some great tunes and since there was no hurry to get back I made a point of persevering with the hike and just thought of the >>>

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Langdale circuit

Date:
07.04.2012
Characteristic:
Hillwalk

A chilled out day walk with a group of walkers I met in Langdale. We headed up toward Red tarn below Pike of Blisco first, then up the nice gentle slopes to Long Top. From there you get nice views over the Langdale valley, and then a little bit of excitement to do the Bad Step to get to the second top on Crinkle Crags. More undulating walking follows before reaching Three Tarns, from where we took a quick dash to the top of Bowfell and then back down the Band to return to Great Langdale. A nice day, but not all that challenging in terms of strenuousness. Still, it was a pleasant weather and good company too.

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Buren

Date:
03.04.2012
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
3:30h
Distance:
7.0km

This was what I'd generally regard as a semi-spontaneous trip, because it was planned only the day before we went. There was a cloudless sky, lots of sunshine and plenty of fresh air - just what we needed after a day in the office! With only -3 or -4 at the bottom of the mountain by Kaldfjord, conditions seemed perfect for a hike. My friend Lene had not been out on a mountain since our last hike together to Stor Kjølen, and that was in the previous autumn so she was equally thrilled to be getting out once more in a different part of Tromsø. Neither of us had much of a plan for route-finding, but we figured that since this was quite a popular choice of skiing destination, there should be some pretty obvious tracks we could follow all the way up. And that's what we did. It was almost too easy, >>>

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Trollsteinen

Date:
24.03.2012
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
4:00h

This was to be my first ever ski trip on fjellski! The lovely Kine Halse who was spending a few months at UNIS had very fortunately been able to borrow some telemark utstyr from a friend, which meant she offered to lend me her skis to use for a trip. More luckily was that her boots actually fitted me even though they were 2 sizes smaller than my usual boots! So on a crisp and sunny saturday morning, we drove up to Nybyen and parked up just at the end of the last barracks. We met here with one of Kine's friends, Karoline Kirsch and she joined us for the trip to Trollsteinen. It was a little windy here, as it always is, and I changed from my thin down jacket to my full-on Rab Summit down jacket. It was -12 in the valley, but felt so much colder with the wind chill, coupled with the fact I'd done >>>

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Mera Peak

Date:
17.10.2011
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

I joined a trip to Mera Peak and Baruntse which was organized by a UK-based company. Since I was travelling from Tromsø, I joined the rest of the group in Kathmandu after having taken a rather long route (Tromsø-Oslo-Bangkok-Kathmandu) with Thai Airways. We were a group of 9 people plus two trip leaders, Mark and Paddy – both of whom turned out to be ultra friendly and had a good sense of humour. 17th October 2011: In Lukla The first part of the trip was the approach to Mera Peak, which involved an early morning flight into Lukla situated at 2800m. We should have been walking to our next camp at Poyan after arriving in Lukla, but since there was some delay in getting the expedition equipment from Kathmandu to Lukla, we ended up spending a night in Lukla and generally relaxing. What I was >>>

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Trollsteinen

Date:
16.02.2011
Characteristic:
Hike

Fantastic trip up Trollsteinen with Robert, Mari and a bunch of other friends from Svalbard to see the sun come back out from behind the mountains. It was a very cold (-20) day down in town, and I had some reservations over whether my Scarpa Charmoz boots would be much good in keeping my toes warm for several hours out hiking in the snow, but I kept with them anyway and crossed my fingers that they wouldn't get too cold. I met up with the other students at about 8.30 at the barracks, and from there we took the usual way up Larsbreen toward Trollsteinen. Plenty of other locals and students out today too, so it was by no means a quiet day out. It was a great atmosphere though. Everyone was super happy about the terrific weather and views, and we were all super excited about the prospect of seeing >>>

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Sarkofagen

Date:
29.01.2011
Characteristic:
Hike

Trip up to Sarkofagen with the Aberystwyth students; Hannah, Frances, Andrew and Stuart. We had -9 down in the valley and not a lot of daylight to work with, but we made pretty good progress up Larsbreen. I felt a little too warm in fact, and eventually decided to take off my synthetic jacket. The others seemed quite happy to keep their clothes on though. The wind had been quite OK down in the lower part of Larsbreen, I guess we had been quite sheltered. But higher up, as we approached the ridge between Sarkofagen and Lars Hiertafjellet, it got extremely windy. I put my jacket back on as well as my insulated trousers over my waterproof trousers. It really was *that* cold! Despite the less-than-ideal weather no one suggested we give up and turn so we ended up continuing to the top of Sarkofagen >>>

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Illiniza Norte

Date:
23.08.2010
Characteristic:
Hike

På tide å legge ut noen bilder nå, men det kommer ikke turrapport! Husker ikke så mye fra turen, bortsett fra at det var en kjempefin dag, vi fikk med oss en hund på tur (aner ikke hvor han dukket opp fra) og jeg kom tilbake med stor hodepine etter å ha blitt altfor tørst ila. dagen.

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