A super-fun round-trip hike!
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | MAP |
| 05.07.23 | Blæjeskardtinden (Mørkevasstinden) | 1131m | 238m | Volda/Vanylven, Norway | MAP |
| 05.07.23 | Sandfjelltuva | 1001m | 153m | Vanylven, Norway | MAP |
| 05.07.23 | Skorene (Skurvethornet) | 724m | 71m | Vanylven, Norway | MAP |
Wednesday: After a couple of days with rain, it cleared up and I was eager on hiking outside my local region. After checking with my buddy Bjørn Skoge, I decided to drive to Norddalen (Syvden) and up to lake Kvanndalsvatnet (525m) to do a round-trip hike across Blæjeskardtinden and Sandfjelltua. And while at it – visit Skorene – a (non-pf100) top that I hadn’t been to before.
I wasn’t aware that it was possible to get this high with a car here, but it was, and the road was quite good. At 4:30pm, Karma and I was ready for a really fun round-trip hike.
We followed a marked trail until we reached the ridge that would take us all the way to Blæjeskardtinden. We now had the entire horseshoe-route in plain view.
Bjørn had said that I would not run into problems with respect to the dog and I gladly took his word for it. And sure enough, the path was easy to follow and easy to hike.
After the first “push”, we got the final part of the ridge in view.
We were both happy…
The views were getting better by the minute. I had been in Norddalen once before – back in 2012 when I hiked Molegga and Tenna from the road I had driven today, but back then I parked way further down. I had also been to Storefjelltinden before, but then I hiked from Innselset by Dasfjorden.
The ridge led us up to a small top called Tinden (1110m). From Tinden, Blæjeskardtinden was just a short hike away.
Shortly after, we were back on Blæjeskardtinden. The last time was with Anne, back in 2014. Back then, we hiked from the other side then (Dansen).
After a short stay, we headed towards the northwest ridge. Here was also a hump called Tinden (1060m) and we were now leaving the Volda – Vanylven border and were heading back into Volda.
We had one more hump to pass – Skorretehornet (935m) before reaching the Sandfjelltuva pass.
This ridge was a bit steep near the top of Skorretehornet, but a marked route guided us safely down the mountain.
And then we could take on the ridge up to Sandfjelltuva.
I had been to Sandfjelltuva before also – back in 2010 with Anne. As such, this was a new top for Karma.
It was tempting to include Blæja – the highest top in Vanylven – also. But as this was a post-work hike, I had to restrain myself. I wanted to get back home in time to catch dinner before bedtime…
That said, I had no rush to get back home. It was just darn nice being up here…
We found a marked route that took us down from Sandfjelltuva and into the inner part of Sandfjelldalen valley.
But eventually, we went off-trail – setting a direct course for Skorene – aka Skruvethornet.
There wasn’t much water to be found on our ridge walk, so I let Karma decide how long she wanted to stay in the river.
And a bit later, we were on top of Skorene.
We returned to the trailhead via the Skorevatna lakes. When we got back to the car, I felt really, really happy about this walk. It was just super-fun! And we were back home before bedtime, catching a well-deserved dinner…
Trip statistics: 9,6km, 960 vertical meters, 3h:04m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
