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Across Hellen festning

Date:
09.11.2025
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:39h
Distance:
3.2km

Short local hike on a gray Sunday.

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Bunuten and Vatnasetenuten

Date:
08.11.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
7:32h
Distance:
22.2km

I started by taking an early train from Bergen to Voss and then the bus to Bu terminal just south of Hardangerbroen. Here I could have switched to a connecting bus heading towards Eidfjord, but I did not think of this until it was too late, and in any case it would only have saved me around 1 km along the paved road. After a short walk east on the separate cycling and walking path, I left the main road and followed a smaller side road via Indre Bu to the start of a tractor road west of Bugjelet. When the tractor road came to an end at a small stream, I easily crossed to the other side and continued on an initially marked trail. The markers soon disappeared though, but the trail was still generally easy follow. When getting close to the top of the pass, the trail split and I followed the option >>>

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
04.11.2025
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:39h
Distance:
3.2km

Short local evening hike.

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Fossen Bratte

Date:
02.11.2025
Characteristic:
Walk
Duration:
0:36h
Distance:
1.1km

On the way home from our hike to Jonstein , Endre and I made a quick stop to have a closer look at Fossen Bratte .

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Jonstein roundtrip from Bottsvatnet

Date:
02.11.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
3:26h
Distance:
8.1km

Endre and I tried to make the most out of a window of nicer weather east of Bergen and decided on Jonstein as our goal. After the drive to Tørvikbygd and the ferry to Jondal we continued up Folgefonnvegen before following the smaller gravel road to the parking lot at Bottsvatnet (or Botsvatn as used on the information poster). We had considered to also include an ascent of Saksaklepp , but this could already be ruled out given that the road to the glacier was closed for the winter immediately after our exit to Bottsvatnet. After passing a locked barrier we proceeded along the gravel road to Skarvabotnen. Here the road turned into a marked trail that could be easily followed all the way to the summit, with the only challenging being the occasional patches of ice. Due to low-hanging clouds and a light snow shower, the >>>

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Oppstemten

Date:
30.10.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:32h
Distance:
5.0km

Short hike up Oppstemten with a colleague before heading home from work.

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Vardfjellet and Høgstefjellet

Date:
26.10.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:41h
Distance:
9.0km

A wet and gray Sunday hike to revisit Vardfjellet and Høgstefjellet via a muddy and slippery trail from the south/southeast.

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Toppe and Kistebakkane

Date:
25.10.2025
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:02h
Distance:
4.9km

Short Saturday hike exploring Toppe and Kistebakkane.

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Sædalen to Haukeland sykehus

Date:
23.10.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:51h
Distance:
7.5km

With the days rapidly getting shorter, I decided to make the most out of a short evening by doing a hike before heading home from work.

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Middagshorgi, Kaldenuten, Vetlekaldenuten and Haugane

Date:
19.10.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
10:32h
Distance:
26.7km

Another Sunday hike with Endre , this time with the goal for me to complete the Kvam ≥ 100m pf. list . After the drive from Bergen, we parked at Hodnaberg and started on the trail towards Kiellandbu . In Hardingaskardet we however left the main trail and instead followed a weaker trail heading to Songrø before rounding Songrøvatnet on the western side and starting an off-trail ascent of Middagshorgi . On the way to the summit we got separated and thus chose two slightly different routes. In fact, I did not see Endre, or his footprints in the snow, until I got almost to the summit. My ascent route provided excellent views into Trongedalen and across to Kiellandbu but did require some easy scrambling that was turned slightly more tricky by the slippery conditions. Given that Endre had already visited the three summits east of Middagshorgi, he now returned >>>

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