Christmas break, day 11
| Top | Height | PF | Municipality |
| Helvetesberget | 539m | 66m | Søndre Land, Norway |
My very first thought in 2022 was: “ski-trip“. My second was “yippie, no hangover“…
But first, the usual “rituals” – get out of bed, breakfast, etc. Fortunately, I was not the only one who was in the mood for a ski-trip.
The natural choice was the prepared tracks from Hovde to Puttmyra – 3,3km each way. We skied out from the “base-camp” in Skjeskroken. I took my old skating skis and put some blue wax on, just to get some grip.
I knew that we would not get prepared tracks from Sagdammen, like there usually is – but the route wasn’t bad at all.
We eventually reached “Tyskervegen“, followed it a little while and then got on the prepared track to Puttmyra.
Karma had done A LOT of running this Christmas, but showed no apparent signs of fatigue…
At Puttmyra, it was time to turn around although Karma didn’t seem to agree.
The best part so far was the descent down to “Tyskervegen”. We had a good pace down that hill…
We took a different route back and I wasn’t totally happy with a ski-trip that didn’t include a named point. I then suggested to Anne that we could ski to Helvetesberget – “Hell mountain“. Just in case 2022 turned out to be another hell year, we could at least come in prepared…
We didn’t have a lot of daylight left and no headlamps. But we figured we would be back before darkness. After skiing along the forest path (we might as well be walking) we reached the viewpoint above the “Helvetet” farm.
From here, we would just let the GPS lead us to the high point – where we’ve been before (in summer) but didn’t remember anything from.
It was (of course) snowing the following night and I didn’t sleep well. As stated before, I *hate* driving during snowfall. But it stopped snowing in the morning and I got Anne back to Sogndal safe and sound. After dropping her off, I continued back home to Sunnmøre – a 474km drive from Hov. I was very happy about the Christmas break but I was equally happy about not having to drive anywhere for the foreseeable future…
