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Happy birthday on Kyrkja
- Date:
- 19.07.2026
The route to Kyrkja started from Leirvassbu on a broad track, split off to a good T-marked footpath. The weather was perfect and there were lots of other people ahead. It was clearly a very popular route. We passed a col at 2 km and the Ts disappeared. Instead, cairns marked the route over large and small boulders, interspersed with stretches of slab and some beaten path. We were heading for a cone of a mountain ahead and to the left. We crossed some snow patches on heavily grooved foot trails. Had a long break in the sunshine overlooking a small glacier which was draining into a lake at the head of a long dale on the far side of the mountain. Then the steep part of the climb. There were some sections of path and cairns to guide us. People ahead gave us a sense of scale. There were a lot of boulders >>>
A visit to the kvinne
- Date:
- 02.07.2026
From roadside at Kvaenbukta by waymarked route, much on unsorted large boulders. Old snow near summit was very steep and forced an awkward traverse. There was a very small parking place at the sign at the foot of the trail. We found decaying red paint marks on trees through the woodland on the boggy lower slopes. We saw a great grey shrike (bird) in the woods. The waymarks improved higher up. We crossed a burn and climbed steeply up on peaty paths. There was little sign of current use. I found a fleece hals trodden into the peat. We left it but it was still there on the way back so I kept it. We had to pass a few boulders before a slight col. We thought of this spur of the mountain as Grønn Haugen and we had a break here. There followed a long and disappointing passage with large boulders >>>
