Northern Norway's highest - Oksskolten (27.07.2019)
Written by Skippy (Innika De Rosa)
| Start point | Laurisbukta (597m) |
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| Endpoint | Oksskolten (1,915m) |
| Characteristic | Hillwalk |
| Duration | 7h 03min |
| Distance | 15.8km |
| Vertical meters | 1,640m |
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| Ascents | Oksskolten (1,915m) | 27.07.2019 |
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| Visits of other PBEs | Laurisbukta parkeringsplass (555m) | 27.07.2019 |
We camped overnight near the trailstart and woke up to what would be the hottest day of the year so far. We started walking around 8.15am and followed the markers up towards the small lake at 855moh. Here we took a wrong turn and followed the trail to the left, which is the circuit trail around Ridaren. We realised we were walking further away from the glacier and made our way back over a bouldery section of rock to the edge of the glacier, by here it was 9am. On with the crampons and ice axes and we started heading over a flat section of the glacier. There ended up being more and more crevasses as we progressed to the middle of the glacier and we had to tread carefully. After reading reports and speaking to otto (Otto Lund) who was last here in summer 10 years ago, the general practise has been to cross this glacier without ropes. From looking at older reports, I think the glacier has moved quite a lot and I would definitely take ropes if we did this hike again, a slip in the wrong place is easily possible here!
After crossing the glacier we started picking a path up the rocks. After around 200m elevation, the top came into view and we headed up the ridge to the right. Terrain was surprisingly quite ok, though more and more loose rocks to the top and a couple of 'one step up, two steps back' sections. Soon we reached the top, had a long lunch break in the warm weather and started our decent.
Lots of snow left made for a quick decent down many snow patches, including a great big patch of snow just before the glacier with a long runout zone where we had a ball sliding on our backpacks. Crossing the glacier went smoothly for the most part, though we came down from the trip with a few extra bruises and bit less skin than we left with ;) Takk for en fin dag i tropisk nordland uglefisk (Paal Andre Lund)!
User comments
veldig bra!
Written by Dryasanne 28.07.2019 16:18Skikkelig gode bilder og rettelig god turbeskrivelse! Makes me happy! Får lyst til å ta turen ja!
Sv: veldig bra!
Written by Skippy 29.07.2019 22:33Takk skal du ha! Turen anbefales :)