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Stølsnuten from Sandvin

Date:
22.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
4:04h
Distance:
8.3km

Strong winds at high altitudes made me postpone my planned skiing trip. To enjoy the otherwise excellent weather I therefore instead went for a long 3.5-hour bus ride to Odda to ascend Stølsnuten . When finally getting off the bus at Sandvin I was welcomed by signs of "Private road" and "No trespassing” but concluded that walking along the gravel roads should still be ok and continued across the bridge. The start of the steep and relatively rough gravel road up the unmarked trailhead was easily located and when the road ended I continued on an equally steep trail heading to Lauvås . When the trail later split (more clearly on the map than in reality), I followed the weaker of the two options and headed more directly towards Storenuten . This involved a tiny bit of easy scrambling but all of the potentially >>>

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Stoltzekleiven and Sandviksfjellet

Date:
19.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:52h
Distance:
6.2km

Short hike after work showing one of my colleagues the trail up Stoltzekleiven . I let my colleague decide the tempo and we made it to the top in 23 minutes and 30 seconds. After a short detour to the summit of Sandviksfjellet we followed the gravel road down to the bus stop at Gamle Bergen.

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Trollhaugen from Hausdal snuplass

Date:
14.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:41h
Distance:
9.9km

By postponing my Friday lunch break and starting the weekend early, I managed to squeeze in a short hike to at least enjoy the tail end of a very nice day. I started my hike from the final bus stop in Hausdalen and pretty much followed the same route as Kjell to the top of Trollhaugen . This included first walking northeast along the gravel road and then turning southwest towards the summit via the private cabin Brekkestøl. From the cabin there was initially a weak trail but it soon disappeared and I was left with finding my own way. This was however straightforward and it did not take long before I arrived at the summit. Here I had my very late lunch break next to the cairn before turning back and following more or less the same route back to the bus stop. To conclude, a hike to Trollhaugen can definitely be recommended. Clearly >>>

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Ulriken from Haukeland sykehus

Date:
12.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
3:08h
Distance:
7.0km

Hike to Ulriken after work with some of my colleagues. After getting to the top of Oppstemten we followed the newly marked route to the real summit of Ulriken and the recently rebuilt cairn, before descending via Stormfuglen .

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Gullbotn to Takvam via Steinfjellet, Ramfjellet and Onuken

Date:
09.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
6:51h
Distance:
19.2km

Ever since turning back just below the summit of Steinfjellet last summer , I knew that I one day had to return to complete the job. This time I arrived by bus from Bergen and started by following the trails up to where Gullbotn is indicated on the map. Last time we had tried to ascend from the east, so this time I therefore ascended further south before later turning north towards the highest point. Much easier and the summit was reached without any real challenges. From Steinfjellet I continued north to Ramfjellet . Getting there was overall straightforward, but I did lose around 230 vertical meters in the process. After a quick lunch break north of the summit, with better views than from the summit itself, I turned back and headed south for Romslabotn. Just before starting the ascent to Romslabotsriden, I came across five deer, where two of them even took the time >>>

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Fagerdalsfjellet and Hellemyrstien

Date:
08.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:34h
Distance:
5.7km

Local Saturday hike exploring a (for me) new trail on the northern side of Ørneberget with unusual views into Eidsvågen and Jordalen.

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Ørneberget and Hellen festning

Date:
07.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:00h
Distance:
4.3km

Short local hike after work.

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Grønefjellet from Fossdalen

Date:
01.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:48h
Distance:
6.7km

After our ascent of Austefjellet , Endre and I drove the short distance south and then northeast to Fossdalen. Here there was a marked parking lot for hikers , although we had it all to ourselves this afternoon. From the parking lot we followed the road north for another 200 meters before crossing Fossdalselva on a stone bridge and the continuing on a sparsely marked trail to Fossdalsstølen where the trail seemed to come to an end. The river was easily crossed just north of the cabin and from there we simply found our own way to the summit of Grønefjellet without coming across any real challenges, except for a deepening layer of wet snow. Our initial plan had been to continue to Skorefjellet , and Endre was even considering Stendarskarfjellet , but with the light quickly fading and the snow greatly slowing our progress, we quickly agreed to rather just return the same way. Darkness fully set in before we reached >>>

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Austefjellet from Molland

Date:
01.03.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:33h
Distance:
3.8km

To make the most of the forecasted longer break between the rain showers, Endre and I postponed our planned early start from Bergen and instead left around noon. Upon arriving at Molland it was still raining but after a couple of minutes of waiting in the car we put on our rain gear and proceeded to the marked trailhead for Austefjellet , and it would not take long before it stopped raining altogether. We had left our car next to the road just south of the northernmost houses in Molland, as learned from previous trip reports, but there was now a new small parking lot (with room for maybe 2-3 cars) just around the next corner. From there on there were signs and trail markers all the way to the summit. Given the easy-to-follow trail it did not take long before we arrived at the large summit cairn. Sadly, most of the probably excellent >>>

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Åsen, Sauhaugen, Mjeldheimssåta and Vårheia

Date:
23.02.2025
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:51h
Distance:
9.5km

A return to Arna on a windy Sunday with the main objective of visiting Åsen over Holereset , yet another minor peak on the Alle topper i Bergen list . I started by taking the train to Arna, from where the initial plan had been to walk along the paved roads up to Kvamsvegen p-plass , but when coming across a recently marked trail south of Vårheia , I of course took the chance to get off the road and instead followed the trail. After later reconnecting with the paved road I followed the trail up to Gapahuk Kvamme Gård and from there tried to continue on a tractor road and trail the map indicated would take me to the summit of Åsen over Holereset. The tractor road was however nothing more than a large opening between the trees and of the trail I did not see any traces until getting up on the ridge. From there it was straightforward to get to the highest point, which sadly did not provide >>>

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