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Ørneberget and Furukammen

Date:
08.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
0:53h
Distance:
3.9km

Short local evening hike after the first day back at work after the summer holiday.

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Hellen festning and Furukammen

Date:
07.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:15h
Distance:
5.0km

Short local evening hike on wet and gray Sunday.

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Munkebotn and Hellemyrstien

Date:
06.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:07h
Distance:
5.8km

Short local Saturday hike after spending all of yesterday hiking in Kvam.

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Storåsen/Ljonesåsen from Innstrandavegen

Date:
05.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:04h
Distance:
4.8km

After visiting Daurmålsegga , I took a short bus ride to Ljones for a quick visit of Storåsen/Ljonesåsen . Previous reports talk about having to bypass a fox fur farm to get to the summit, see for example elbow (Vegard Magnussen) 's report here . The fox farm was however apparently shut down in 2020 and I therefore hoped that I could simply follow the road all the way to the summit, which turned out to be the case. After passing a couple of houses, including green houses, I arrived at the opened gates to the empty fox farm and could simply pass through, out the open gates at the other side, and continue south and then north on the tractor road. The road split just before reaching the summit from where a smaller road and later trail could be followed south towards the summit. Only a final few meters off-trail was then required to reach the highest point. >>>

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Daurmålsegga from Oma via Raudkleiv

Date:
05.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
3:42h
Distance:
13.2km

After two unsuccessful attempts at joining a DNT -organized hike across Daurmålsegga from Bolstad to Mundheimsdalen, once cancelled due to bad weather and once COVID restrictions got in the way, I decided to not wait any longer and go ahead on my own. Following the whole ridge would however not be possible and I would instead simply start from Oma and return the same way. I started by taking the bus to Oma and following the road up to the trailhead at Halvgjenge p-plass , from where I followed the standard marked route via Raudkleiv to the summit of Daurmålsegga. Tractor road almost all the way to Raudkleiv and an easy to follow trail from there all the way to the top, with only a small bit of easy scrambling to reach the summit cairn. As got to the summit a dense fog had appeared and thus there were next to no views. I decided to wait >>>

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
04.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:37h
Distance:
3.2km

Short local evening hike.

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Hellen festning and Furukammen

Date:
03.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:01h
Distance:
5.0km

Short local hike on a gray Wednesday.

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Midtnakken, Gjesfjellet and Snøya

Date:
01.08.2022
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
8:10h
Distance:
19.6km

I started by taking the bus to Eidslandet and walking up to the marked trailhead for Eidsstølen that I had used for my earlier hike to Toppfjellet . While the trail quality had not improved since my last visit, the trail was simply now hidden under tall grasses and ferns instead of snow, and it was still not always straightforward to locate the next red marker, the marked trail did make it relatively straightforward to get to Eidsstølen. It does however involve first ascending to the plateau south of Eidsnova before later descending down to the cabin. From Eidsstølen I turned west and headed off-trail to the extended north-south ridge of Salsfjellet. Ascending to the ridge was overall straightforward, although there may be more direct routes, and I quickly passed over Nordrenakken on my way to the highest point of the ridge at Midtnakken . >>>

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Kulten

Date:
31.07.2022
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
0:46h
Distance:
2.4km

After visiting Storhaug and Nesheimsnipa , me and petter (Petter Bjørstad) drove the short distance to Yksendalen for our final short hike of the day. We parked at a gravel-covered area next to the road before getting up to the houses in Yksendalen and from there followed the road towards the houses in search of the newly marked trail that GeirL (Geir Lie) mentioned in his trip report from almost ten years ago . We could not find any traces of this trail though and were left making our own way largely following the outskirts of a field. Shortly after leaving the field, we did however spot the first red trail markers and soon we were on a marked trail that could be followed all the way to the summit. The summit provided much better views than expected, and after a couple of pictures we returned along the same way, once again failing to find the start/end of the trail mentioned by Geir. Maybe >>>

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Nesheimsnipa from Bergo

Date:
31.07.2022
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:51h
Distance:
7.8km

After our visit of Storhaug , me and petter (Petter Bjørstad) drove the short distance to Bergo, where I had come across information that there was supposed to be a marked trail that would take us all the way to the top of Nesheimsnipa , or Blånipa as it is also referred to. This trail is also being used as part of an uphill race called Gygrakjeften Opp . Finally, I noticed that Vaksdal turlag was organizing a hike to Nesheimsnipa using the same trail a couple of weeks later. Hence the trail could not be all that bad. We therefore parked at a small parking lot next to Eksingsdalen skule opposite a football field. From there we walked less than 200 meters west along the road to the unmarked trailhead (or rather on closer inspection there was one partly hidden blue trail marker, but no sign). Here we started up the short tractor road, followed the outskirts of the field north and passed through a gate where the marked trail began. The trail was >>>

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