From Djuv to Storehornet on Godøy Island (04.07.2015)  5

Written by Solan (Atle Solholm) GSM

Start point Gjuv P-plass (25m)
Endpoint Gjuv P-plass (25m)
Characteristic Hillwalk
Duration 1h 49min
Distance 3.3km
Vertical meters 538m
GPS
Ascents Storhornet (497m) 04.07.2015
Visits of other PBEs Gjuv p-plass (40m) 04.07.2015 13:05
Trekking with my oldest daughter from Gjuv (or Djuv) to the summit of Storhornet on Godøy Island. The track from Gjuv to the summit is the steepest, and therefore also the shortest one up to Storhornet.
Trekking with my oldest daughter from Gjuv (or Djuv) to the summit of Storhornet on Godøy Island. The track from Gjuv to the summit is the steepest, and therefore also the shortest one up to Storhornet.

On this day I had a very nice trip to the summit of Storhornet on Godøy Island along with my older daughter. We went by car to a nice parking spot that has been made for mountain trekkers at Gjuv, and started our trek from there. The path up to about 270 m.a.m.s.l. is quite nice though a little bit wet in the upper part. Following this path you reach a mountain pass between Mount Storhornet on one side and Mount Lesten on the other side. From there the rather nice path goes down to the lake Alnesvatnet. Just there in the pass, however, you just take a track up to the right [i.e. eastwards], and this track will then lead you up to the summit of Storhornet. On this particular day, we noticed as we embarked on this last, rather steep climb, that the summit of the mountain was shrouded in clouds. We continued, nevertheless. At the summit we met another two people that had climbed the mountain from the north side [i.e. from Alnes]. From the peak of the mountain the view would come an go due to clouds/fog. You could see a little on the southeast side of the mountain, but almost nothing to the northwest. We had originally planned to descend from the mountain along the mountain ridge called Valkvæegga. This mountain ridge, which extends eastwards on the island, seemed to be even more shrouded with bad weather, whereas the weather looked quit nice in the direction from which we had arrived, and so we just decided to go back down the way we came up.

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