Rotten shape, but still able to move…
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 20.02.23 | Rambjøra | 132m | 109m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 21.02.23 | Borgundgavlen | 71m | 68m | Ålesund, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 21.02.23 | Geitnausa | 456m | 102m | Ålesund, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 21.02.23 | Høgkubben | 450m | 62m | Ålesund, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 22.02.23 | Gyrinakken | 365m | 157m | Herøy/Sande, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.02.23 | Remøykammen | 184m | 41m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.02.23 | Vardane (Remøyfjellet) | 188m | 188m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.02.23 | Vasseidet | 162m | 69m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 24.02.23 | Klosterhaugen | 20m | 20m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | – | MAP |
| 25.02.23 | Storehornet | 196m | 74m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 25.02.23 | Igesundhetta | 216m | 216m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 26.02.23 | Eggesbøsteinen | 68m | 58m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 26.02.23 | Varden | 76m | 45m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | – | MAP |
Rambjøra (132m), Feb 20 2023
Monday: Another week, still feeling rotten and still on antibiotics. The medicine feels like 50% good, 50% bad. The back is getting better, the rest of the body is chaos. Add a rainy day to this, and you can guess my inspiration level after work.
So, the choice fell on my local top Rambjøra once again. Karma loves this route and I can pull it off almost no matter how rotten I feel.
Around these days, I was wondering when winter would arrive. Yes, we had a few dumps in December, but it’s been “quiet” since then. Already in October, I stated that winter would come in March…
We reached the top, and I felt I had energy left for some off-trail walk about.
We followed the path to Dragsund and just before reaching the road, we went off-trail in the direction of the sound by the bridge.
Low tide today…
And then we passed Jonseholmen on our way back.
Trip statistics: 5km, 150 vertical meters, 1h:18m
Borgundgavlen (71m), Feb 21 2023
Tuesday: Ålesund day and a CT-scan in the morning. Another step in figuring out what is riddling me. Before returning to work, I walked the dog at Borgundgavlen – a place I frequently visited back in 2008 when my Hypothyroidism was discovered. I was flat out for a couple of weeks and Borgundgavlen became my Mt. Everest.
It felt really nice to be back. Whatever reason you have for being here, it’s still a nice walk!
For some reason, Karma seemed very skeptical. Like – “What? This is not our regular lunch walk! What’s up?”
I didn’t remember anything from this path, which is a bit weird, given the many walks I did here. On the other hand, I’ve had some thousands of other walks since then…
The weather was nice and I looked forward to a proper hike after work!
Oh – by the way – this the home of Sunnmøre Museum – which tells the story of the way of life in the old farming community. In the idyllic Borgund gable is a large collection of buildings from all over Sunnmøre.
Trip statistics: 2,1km, 90 vertical meters, 0h:30m
Geitnausa (456m), Høgkubben (450m), Feb 21 2023
Tuesday: After work (still in Ålesund), I drove to Blindheim to do my regular round across Geitnausa (aka Spjelkavikfjellet) and Høgkubben. I was curious about the amount of snow…
There wasn’t a whole lot of it in the lower forest.
Karma seemed to enjoy herself…
There wasn’t a whole lot of snow on the upper mountain either. The little there was, was somewhat deep and cumbersome, but could often be avoided.
It was nice to be back on Geitnausa and enjoy the fine views!
On the way down from Geitnausa, I met Karl Egil Liaset – another fellow mountaineer and whom I hadn’t seen since my Ålesund years (2006-2008) and we had a good chat until I realized that I was running out of daylight. I hadn’t packed a headlamp for this hike.
We then sat course for Høgkubben and reached this top 45 minutes after leaving Geitnausa.
Next, we aimed for the top of Høgelia before returning to the car via the slalom hill (which is very seldom open for business…)
Trip statistics: 9,8km, 560 vertical meters, 2h:32m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Gyrinakken (365m), Feb 22 2023
Wednesday: Another rainy afternoon and I chose to go to Gyrinakken – where I actually hadn’t been so far in 2023.
Everything was quite uninspiring, except for the fact of just being here – in the rain. Made me feel better!
On top, it was windy and snowing lightly.
We returned along FV61 (on the safe side of the barrier) to the Leikongeidet lit trail and followed the gravel road (to become a skiing course later in spring(!)) back to the car.
Trip statistics: 6,6km, 340 vertical meters, 1h:34m
Vardane (Remøy, 188m), Vasseidet (162m), Feb 23 2023
Thursday: It was a windy afternoon, and the weather was unpredictable. As I had played it “safe” in the Gyrinakken forest the day before I felt obligated to expose myself to the weather and chose to drive to Remøy island and hike across the tops on this island.
It’s not as if these tops are high, but the weather can be quite rough.
Arriving at Remøykammen, so far so good.
Remøykammen offers nearby shelter (forest) in case of violent hail showers, but we seemed to be safe and continued towards the island high point – Vardane.
I quite like this island. Just too bad there is no round-trip hike option on the mountain plateau. Guess I would have to stick to the roads for return, this time too.
When we reached Vardane, I had already decided to pay Vasseidet a visit too.
At Vasseidet, there wasn’t really anything left to do, so we had to set course for the car – 4,3km away.
First, we had to get down to Sævik before taking on the long and boring road back to the east tip of the island.
We took a detour down to the shore before calling it a day. A nice hike altogether!
Trip statistics: 8,1km, 450 vertical meters, 2h:00m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Herøya (20m), Feb 24 2023
Friday: Anne had arrived, and none of us had much energy for any hiking. But we had to walk the dog and decided to drive out to Herøya island – a place we both enjoy visiting.
While there are good paths on this island, we both like it best off the beaten track…
On the tip of the island sat an eagle. We were curious how close we could get before it took off. Not so close, it turned out…
The ocean view was … dramatic!
On our way back – on the other side of the island – we noticed that there were no sheep on the islet next to Herøya. As we had never been to this islet before (as we didn’t want to disturb the sheep), we went over there. The bridge was super-slippery!
We got to the high point, which was approx. 12m above sea level. After some research – it seems the name of this islet is Anhangeren.
Then we headed over to the Herøyspelet arena where I tried to entertain the … tough crowd!
Afterwards, we returned to the car and went home for Taco night. And the last antibiotic. Hopefully – for a long time!
Trip statistics: 2,7km, 90 vertical meters, 1h:06m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP) from the hike:
Storehornet (196m), Igesundshetta (216m), Feb 25 2023
Saturday: This was not a good day for me and I had to aim low for outdoor activity today. The choice fell on a round-trip walk across Storehornet and Igesundshetta on Bergsøya island. The weather was still unpredictable, and we expected to run into a hail shower or two.
Already on the way to Storehornet, we realized that something was around the corner…
Halfway across the ridge, we got wind and snow, but fortunately no hail.
We passed across Storehornet and eventually, we reached Igesundsvarden.
From here, we had a really good view towards Nerlandsøya island.
Next up was the Bergsøya island high point – Igesundshetta.
There was still a whole lot of weather “out there” and we hoped it didn’t come our way anytime soon…
On Igesundshetta, Anne probably expected that we would take the shortest route back to the trailhead, but I had other plans.
My proposition was to follow the northeast ridge towards Fosnavåg and return to the trailhead on roads. Anne said OK.
My goal was just to get some new tracks on my GPS map and in these parts, I would have resort to streets to make that happen. But I’m not picky.
It was a fun variation to an otherwise classic round-trip hike on Bergsøya.
Trip statistics: 7km, 490 vertical meters, 2h:30m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Eggesbøsteinen (68m), Varden (76m), Feb 26 2023
Sunday: This Sunday started out just like Saturday. Not on a good note. But the trend was that my body felt better after some exercise, so I started to look for another “low key” route, preferably one in new terrain and that had some elements of “bonkers” to it.
I found my route not far from where we hiked the day before. We would hike Eggesbøsteinen (a cool knob) which neither Anne nor Karma had been to earlier. Then we would find our way to Varden – a small top closer to the ridge we hiked yesterday. None of us had been to Varden before.
The hike started by crossing a really annoying meadow.
Things got a bit more interesting when we reached the south tip of Bergsøya and could follow the forest ridge.
I kind of expected to find a path along the forest ridge but found only deer tracks.
But the terrain was fun and soon we were on track to Eggesbøsteinen.
A few minutes later, we could celebrate our first “top”.
We found it a bit too cumbersome to continue along the forest ridge and decided to head for the shore.
From the shore, Eggesbøsteinen presented itself from its coolest side.
After a while along the shore, we had to pass through civilization where we attracted some attention from neighbors not used to seeing hikers here. There were enough sheep fences to make walking here no fun at all, and we were happy when we were back at the shore and could focus on finding a route up Varden.
The route up Varden was not fun at all.
But eventually, we reached the top and I guess we all looked forward to return to the car along roads.
But first, we had to get off this hump and fortunately, it was easier than getting up.
It was a fun hike and had definitely some “bonkers” sides to it…
Trip statistics: 5,4km, 245 vertical meters, 2h:15m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
