Summer vacation, day 19
Index
| Peak | Height | PF | Municipality |
| Brannfjellet | 175 | 125m | Namsos, Norway |
| Børsåsen | 175m | 110m | Levanger, Norway |
Continued from day 18
Our time in Nordland had come to an end for this summer. We’ll be back, for sure!
We were now on our way to my house on Sunnmøre but a) there would be a couple of walking-the-dog hills along the way and b) a stay overnight – somewhere.
Assuming E6 was still busy with the summer traffic, we decided to take FV17 from Brønnøysund. After the Vennesund – Holm ferry, we continued to Namsos – opposed to join the E6 via Høylandet.
Brannfjellet, Namsos
We discovered that Namsos had a near “town top” and as it was high time to walk the dog, we decided to go up there. After some poor map reading, we ended up in a pass between Brannfjellet and Brantfjellet (!) where the road was closed. We should of course have gone through the tunnel and parked at the north side of Brannfjellet.
But, no worries. It was a short walk to the parking area. I don’t know if there is still skiing going on here in winter, but at least there used to be. The original plan was to hike up the slalom hill, but this route had too much grass and we found a path instead.
It didn’t take us too long to reach the top of Brannfjellet.
From the top, we followed the path to a viewpoint above Namsos.
We took the same route down and continued on our journey south.
Trip statistics: 3,2km, 170 vertical meters, 1h:02m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP) from the trip:
Børsåsen, Levanger
Our next stop was Børsåsen between Verdal and Levanger. We found the trailhead near Østbør and headed out next to a kine of cows down from the hill for water refreshments.
We soon understood that this was quite a popular forest hill and some had spent more time up here than others…
It didn’t take long to reach the high point. Which was kind of the point of going here – walking the dog but also give daddy a new pf100 top while at it…
We took a different route back down. I enjoyed walking in this forest.
Apparently, carving in wood is a thing here…
On the way back to the trailhead, we stopped by Hansåsen and enjoyed the view towards Levanger.
Back on the forest road, the road was packed with cows and we didn’t want to walk through them with Karma. Hence, we headed down to the nearest house and found another way back to the car.
By now, we had decided to spend the night at Stav Gjestegård – our normal place to stay on our way to or from northern Norway.
Continued on day 20
Trip statistics: 3,2km, 130 vertical meters, 57min
Pictures (Canon EOS RP) from the trip:
