In the Levanger/Verdal region
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | MAP |
| 18.07.23 | Våttåberget | 249m | 140m | Levanger, Norway | MAP |
| 18.07.23 | Falstadsenteret | – | – | Levanger, Norway | MAP |
| 18.07.23 | Finnvola | 692m | 140m | Verdal, Norway/ Åre, Sweden | MAP |
Våttåberget (249m), July 18 2023
Tuesday: On day 4 of our summer vacation, we woke up after a good night’s sleep at Falstadsenteret at Ekne by Trondheimsfjorden.
The museum didn’t open until 10am, and so we decided to go for a morning hike before breakfast. “As it happened”, there was a nearby pf100 top – Våttåberget – and this looked like a perfect morning walk.
We drove to Øvre Kjølen where we found parking and a path that was going in the right direction…
It was nice to see blue sky again, after the heavy rain we had on our car drive the day before.
Eventually we got on the forest path.
The path forked after a while, and we kept to the right, assuming this was a loop via the top. And it was.
I wouldn’t call the path up to the top steep, but there were fixed ropes for those who see it differently…
And then we were up!
This was obviously a fire lookout tower. And while Karma couldn’t join us on top, she could pose by this miniature version…
This was indeed a good way to start a day! We took the other (ref. the loop) path on the way down. It didn’t take long before we joined our ascent route.
Trip statistics: 2,8km, 150 vertical meters, 0h:47m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Falstadsenteret, July 18 2023
Tuesday: After the hike to Våttåberget and breakfast, we went to the Falstadsenteret Museum – located in the same building as the hotel.
According to their website, this was a SS prison camp in the period 1941 – 1945m for political prisoners. Falstad functioned as a labour camp, a transit camp and a death camp.
While the museum had put up a good exhibition, it felt really bad to walk through it. For obvious reasons. We must never, ever take our freedom for granted.
After the museum tour, we checked out of the hotel. We had a good and quiet stay there.
Finnvola (692m), July 18 2023
Tuesday: During our 2022 summer vacation, we visited some tops on the Norway-Sweden border and enjoyed that. Now that we had the opportunity to do it again, we grabbed the chance.
Just before Verdal, we left E6 and took road 72 towards the Swedish border. It was a bit of a detour, but hopefully worth it. At Sandvika, we were very close to the border and drove up north to a parking near Bellingstua.
From here, we followed a gravel road (Midtre Finnvola) through a cabin area.
The cabin owners here are not different from other cabin owners…
At the end of the road, we found the path that took us through the forest and up the mountain.
The path climbed gently and was easy to follow.
When we topped out on the mountain plateau, we met a woman walking her dog, and she could tell us that it was QUITE FAR to the top. It was approx. 500 meters to the top. Only goes to show that most things in life are relative…
And the had yet another border top “in the bag”.
It was a good thing the cairn was so large, because it provided good shelter from the incoming rain shower. Fortunately, the shower passed quickly.
From my quick research, I had learned that there was a cave, grotto or something up that alley nearby. So, we went looking for it. After completing a circle, we didn’t find anything. But just before we were to head back down, I discovered something…
I’m not really sure what Finnvolagrotta really is. It looked like a result of rocks collapsed. But whatever it is, it was cool to find it!
But now it was time to get back to the car and continue our journey to the north…
Trip statistics: 7,1km, 240 vertical meters, 2h:12m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
