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Across Hellen festning

Date:
07.05.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:36h
Distance:
3.1km

Short local evening hike.

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Furukammen

Date:
04.05.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
2:31h
Distance:
4.5km

Short local Saturday hike.

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
02.05.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:36h
Distance:
3.2km

Short local evening hike.

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Tverrfjellet

Date:
01.05.2024
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:28h
Distance:
7.7km

After our visit of Skorpo , we wanted to have a go at one more peak before heading back to Bergen and decided on Tverrfjellet in Omvikdalen. (To be more precise, we decided on the lower peak with that name on the eastern side of Omvikdalen, as there is also a higher peak with the same name on the other side. Not a lot of points for creativity when naming mountains in this area in other words...) We parked at a small parking lot at the trailhead and from there followed a gravel road up to Aterstadvatnet. Here we had to cross the river to continue on the marked trail to the summit. There were several steppingstones that made the crossing straightforward, however avoiding wet shoes was not really an option. Kjell here decided to turn back and returned to his car, while Petter and I started on the initially relatively steep ascent >>>

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Skorpo

Date:
01.05.2024
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:59h
Distance:
5.2km

Shortly after our successful ascent of Storhaugen på Seløy , Kjell managed to secure yet another boat ride, this time to from Stølavika to the island of Skorpo . Once more both Petter and Endre were eager to join, but in the end Endre decided to instead use the one to retrieve his car in Ortnevik (left there after his impressive skiing trip to Voss ). Petter picked me up at 07:00 for the drive to Gjermundshamn and the ferry to Årsnes. We met up with Kjell on the ferry and drove together from Årsnes to the agreed upon pickup point in Stølavika, where only minutes later the boat showed up and transported us to Søre Skorpevågen at Skorpo. A short trip taking less than ten minutes. From Søre Skorpevågen we did as recommend by the boat owner and followed a gravel road west until reaching a tractor road, and later trail, marked with red T's, which we then proceeded to follow up to the cairn at the hill east >>>

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Skredderdalen and Hellemyrstien

Date:
28.04.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
2:17h
Distance:
9.9km

Local Sunday hike to check out the refurbished trail in Skredderdalen (now with lots of new stone steps, still lots of work left for the lower part of the trail though). On the way home I also took advantage of the reduced water level of Storevatnet for a visit of an unnamed ruin northeast of the lake .

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Hellen festning and Furukammen

Date:
25.04.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
2:48h
Distance:
4.4km

Short local evening hike.

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Steinen and Øyjordsåsen

Date:
23.04.2024
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:21h
Distance:
6.9km

When a two-day meeting at Solstrand came to an end, I made the rather unusual choice of skipping the concluding lunch at the hotel and instead changed into my hiking gear and hopped on a bus to Sævareid with the goal of visiting the final two peaks I had left in Bjørnafjorden. After switching buses at Kilen I got off at "Sævareid sør". This put me right at the start of Markhusvegen and I now had just under 2.5 hours to complete my hike and return to the bus stop before the last bus of the day would take me back to Bergen. I started by following Markhusvegen up towards Markhus but left the gravel road just as it flattened out and instead headed off-trail towards the summit of Steinen , leaving my heavy backpack behind at the first opportunity. The ascent started quite steep and even required some >>>

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Gamle Bergen

Date:
20.04.2024
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
1:32h
Distance:
8.0km

Local hike on a windy Saturday.

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Storhaugen på Seløy

Date:
17.04.2024
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
0:48h
Distance:
0.8km

A visit of Storhaugen på Seløy had been on my wish list for a while, especially after it became the only peak left on the Tysnes ≥ 100m pf. list. But while the short ascent to the summit should be straightforward, the challenge was how to get to the island. Kjell had exhausted his connections in the area without any luck, so I asked a colleague of mine who used to live at Tysnes. It turned out that his daughter and son-in-law were living in Onarheim and it therefore did not take long before we had secured our boat ride to Seløy! Of course, only after initial questions such as: are you sure you mean Seløy?! and, why would anybody want to go there?! ;) To make the most out of the trip, I also invited Petter and Endre and together with Kjell we found a time that worked for everybody. Petter travelled by himself earlier in the morning to visit >>>

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