Finnkollen (16.03.2019)

Written by Skippy (Innika De Rosa)

Start point	Kattfjordskoke
Endpoint	Kattfjordskole (632m)
Characteristic	Randonnée/Telemark
Duration	2h 00min
Distance	5.7km
Vertical meters	642m
GPS

Ascents	Finnkollen (687m)	16.03.2019

The weather was shifting a lot, and in the space of driving to Kattfjord it had been snow and sunshine twice. It was snowing heavily when we parked next to Kattfjordskole but decided to give the trip a try anyway. We followed a small path to the right side of a house which met the lysløype after a few minutes.

Skiftene vær...vi er veldig glade i goretex!

We followed the lysløype up and gained elevation quite slowly. We came off lysløype and started breaking trail at tverrelva. There was lots of powder so me and … took turns breaking trail. Once we came over the tree line and started heading for the summit the weather turned for the worse and we got stuck in a complete white out. Paal was already ahead of us but we decided not to go any further as his tracks were already covered.

We got changed and waited for him to come down. Really sketchy skiing for the first few hundred meters in total white out, but after we got to the tree line again it got bearable. All in all an okay trip but probably not the best for a heavy powder day. Takk for turen uglefisk (Paal Andre Lund) og Pauke!