Oh my Goshness!
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 09.03.24 | Gjesingefjellet | 1481m | 145m | Luster, Norway | – | MAP |
| 09.03.24 | Nosafjellet | 1488m | 166m | Luster, Norway | – | MAP |
Saturday: On Friday, Anne said she wanted to go for a ski-trip in the mountains on Saturday and so we started looking for candidates. I wanted to go to Vesle Jukleggi on Hemsedalsfjellet, but the weather forecast indicated fog. Anne doesn’t like fog and so she proposed Gjesingefjellet, from Turtagrø – where the forecast promised better weather.
With the icy conditions, I wasn’t too keen on going to steep terrain – which I assumed any ski-trip from Turtagrø would offer. But in the end, I was game and so we made the 70km drive to Turtagrø.
The weather was stunning and so were the majestic Hurrungane peaks. A number of skiers were on their way to Dyrhaugstind – the classic ski-trip up here. I couldn’t imagine how that could be fun, given the hard snow.
We were heading into more gentle terrain, and it didn’t take long until all of us were sucking this wonderful day right in…
This was my first ski-trip from Turtagrø. In fact, I’ve only stopped here on a couple of occasions. When I hiked Fannaråken, when I climbed Store Skagastølstind and when I hiked Store Soleibotntind. I guess I’m not a big fan of going where everyone is going. But I should definitely come back and do more trips from here.
We followed FV55 for a little while…
Then we sat course for Gjesingefjellet.
It was seconds before I joined Karma in her celebration of life…
The plan was to ski directly up to the high ridge, but then we decided to follow a small valley west of Rystølsnosi. The snow was rock solid, but not icy.
And no steep parts in sight…
…except for on the other side of the road…
And oh yes, we’ve skied Steindalsnosi – albeit not from Turtagrø. Given that the road was closed at Turtagrø, I assumed no one were skiing up there today.
The terrain climbed gently up to the top …
… and in not too long, we had our first new top in 2024.
I need to talk a little about the views. Too bad not all of the tops surrounding Smørstabbrean and Leirbrean glaciers were showing. But Store Smørstabbtind rose, tall and strong.
Hurrungane, on the other hand – were in the clear…
I reckoned this was the time to ask Anne if she would like to come along to Nosafjellet. It wasn’t too far and maybe we could drive home with two new tops in the bag.
She was a little hesitant at first, but then she came around and we sat course for Nosafjellet.
I had a “going nuts” day with the camera…
Then we got Nosafjellet in view. Just down one hill and up another…
It didn’t take us long to get down and then we started the climb to the top.
How lucky we are to be able to do this…
It was not clear which of the Nosafjellet humps was the highest, and the trig. point was confusing. To make sure we had been to the top, we visited all of the humps.
I really wanted to feature all the pictures on this page, but that would just be too much. Please go through the gallery for more photos.
Clouds were moving in on the Hurrungane peaks. I was wondering if this was the fog from Hemsedalsfjellet, or just local weather due to the high peaks (> 2000m).
Then it was time to get back. We had a very nice descent from Nosafjellet.
The snow was still hard, but it wasn’t icy.
We had to climb back up to the ridge leading to Gjesingefjellet but having been to Nosafjellet made it worth the effort.
When we skied down the same valley we went up, we had super-fun skiing like skaters do halfpipes.
We were only in the first part of March, but I was wondering what kind of ski-trip in 2024 would rank above this one. But let’s not get carried away. May is still a long way ahead and maybe we will return to Sognefjellet…
Returning to Turtagrø, it was clear that the road across Sognefjellet would not open anytime soon.
We were high as kites going home. That’s what trips like these do to people…
Trip statistics: 17,3km, 1000 vertical meters, 4h:47m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max/Samsung Galaxy) from the trip:
