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Britastein and Høgehaug

Date:
24.03.2024
Characteristic:
Cross-country skiing
Duration:
2:21h
Distance:
10.1km

My initial plan to visit the highest point of Myrdalsbreen was abandoned at the small hill called Britastein just west of Britabu due to the snow conditions being tougher than expected and the snow starting to build up underneath my climbing skins.

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Barsnesfjorden

Date:
23.03.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:03h
Distance:
4.8km

Short evening walk along Barsnesfjorden after the drive from Bergen to Sogndal. (Note that the road this hike follows is private, i.e. no cars allowed.)

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Ørneberget and Hellen festning

Date:
20.03.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:54h
Distance:
4.0km

Short local evening hike after work.

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Fjellveien

Date:
17.03.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:29h
Distance:
7.3km

Local Sunday hike after spending all of Saturday skiing with Endre in Ulvik .

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Midtfjell from Sjusete

Date:
16.03.2024
Characteristic:
Backcountry skiing
Duration:
5:00h
Distance:
13.3km

Inspired by an external trip report at tinderangel.no describing what looked like a very nice skiing trip from Sjusete to Midtfjell , Endre and I once more drove from Bergen in the direction of Voss but this time headed for Ulvik and the winter parking lot at Sjusete . As we approached the center of Ulvik we left the main road and instead followed a narrow gravel road southwest up from Vambheim. This included passing through an open gate just north of Gjerdet, but whether this gate is always open remains unknown. Done with this one potential hurdle we continued up to the parking lot at Sjusete, noticing that the gravel road was rather icy towards the end but hoping that this would improve before the descent later in the day. Plenty of space at the parking lot, in fact we were the only car and, expect for coming across a fresh scooter trail during the descent, we did not see any >>>

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
14.03.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:36h
Distance:
3.2km

Short local evening hike.

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Helleneset

Date:
10.03.2024
Characteristic:
Walk
Duration:
0:43h
Distance:
2.6km

Short local walk after spending all of yesterday skiing at Voss .

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Five summits southeast of Grindaflethytta from Brandset

Date:
09.03.2024
Characteristic:
Backcountry skiing
Duration:
11:29h
Distance:
41.4km

In order to make the most out of the excellent weather, and due to road work at Dalseide, Endre picked me up at my place just before six in the morning and together we drove to Brandset at Voss, only having to wait around ten minutes before we could pass through Dalseidtunnelen at 07:00. We arrived at the parking lot at Brandset around 08:30 and it did not take long before we were ready to start skiing. We started by following the icy road into Bjørndalen before leaving the scooter trails behind and making our own way up towards Bjørndalsvatnet. Below roughly 1100 meters the snow was very hard, more ice than snow, but higher up the conditions gradually improved and we therefore had pretty good skiing conditions for the majority of the trip. After a short break west of Bjørndalsvatnet we completed the final ascent to the >>>

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Totræna Vinterpark

Date:
08.03.2024
Characteristic:
Cross-country skiing
Duration:
3:02h
Distance:
8.0km

Given the excellent weather I managed to convince three of my colleagues to take the Friday off to go skiing at Totræna Vinterpark . Two of them did not have much experience with cross-country skiing though, hence we initially took it quite slow. After a long lunch break at the skiing jumping hill close to the start of the trails, two of us completed the rest of the groomed ski trails at a slightly higher speed, before we all returned to Bergen.

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Ørneberget and Hellen festning

Date:
05.03.2024
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
0:57h
Distance:
4.2km

Short local hike just before sunset.

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