A windy, but very nice hike on Stadlandet
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 17.03.24 | Mosekleivhornet | 540m | 312m | Stad, Norway | – | MAP |
| 17.03.24 | Ytre Molvikhornet | 471m | 37m | Stad, Norway | – | MAP |
| 17.03.24 | Svartehornet | 475m | 110m | Stad, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 17.03.24 | Sætrefjellet | 503m | 40m | Stad, Norway | – | MAP |
| 17.03.24 | Nobba | 505m | 78m | Stad, Norway | – | MAP |
| 17.03.24 | Solumskardura | 507m | 74m | Stad, Norway | – | MAP |
Sunday: I was still on call duty at work but needed a break from my local island. I took the PC in the bag and drove to Stadlandet to explore some new terrain.
Plan A was to hike Mosekleivhornet from Hoddevika bay, via the Moskleiva couloir. After that, anything was on the table – depending on the silence on the mobile phone.
It wasn’t difficult to find the path up Moskleiva, despite the signpost that said the path was not marked. First of all, the route was 100% obvious, and secondly, we were not the first ones going up this way. The path was quite visible.
Moskleiva was steep, but not exposed. I cannot imagine that any stumble would have consequences.
But it was windy. Really windy!
Eventually, we reached the top of Mosekleivhornet. Anne and I visited Mosekleivhornet and Solumskardura back in 2011, but I had no recollection of the hike. As such, this was really a hike in brand new terrain.
The original “plan” had been to visit Ytre Molvikhornet (new top), cross over to Svartehornet (visited in 2012), continue across Nobba (new top) and return via Solumskardura. The wind was really annoying, but I decided to go for my original plan.
Ytre Molvikhornet (471m) was just a hump.
The only reason for going there was additional angles of the cliffs.
Then we sat course for Svartehornet.
This could have been nightmare terrain, if it hadn’t been for the fact that the ground was partly frozen.
But now we got new views and eventually we reached the top.
I had absolutely no recollection of my 2012 visit…
To get from Svartehornet to Sætrefjellet, we could either cross the Kupa valley – losing lots of vertical gain – or start climbing back up Mosekleivhornet and curve around. I chose the latter.
The phone was still quiet. No emergency at work…
I had been reading the map way too casually. When we were going up Sætrefjellet, I actually thought we were ascending Nobba and that once we reached the top, we could start heading back to Hoddevika.
Sætrefjellet was on the same ridge, but a different hump. When we reached the top of Sætrefjellet, Nobba was almost 2km away.
So, we kept on going…
Nobba was just 22m short of being a pf 100m top, but felt like a totally insignificant hump, coming from Sætrefjellet. I’m sure it looks more of a mountain when seen from the north.
But eventually, we got there and could start focusing on our return back to Hoddevika.
I had been keeping a good pace, and everything looks easier on the map. Once I decided how I wanted to return to Hoddevika, it meant crossing Langedalsnibba (495m) and Solumskardura. But then I realized that I could curve around Langedalsnibba and come into the pass between the two tops.
If the ground hadn’t been partly frozen, this would have been a terrible route.
As we curved around Langedalsnibba, we ran into hard snow that we could follow all the way to the Solumskardura pass. Bonus!
Once across Solumskardura, we had two options. Option 1 would take us back to the Hoddevika road, but far away from Hoddevika. Option 2 was a more questionable path that seemed to take us down to the hairpin curves above Hoddevika. I put my money on option 2…
When we got to Nibbergselva, the option 1 path was marked and visible. But that would mean a long and boring walk along the road and so we headed off-trail down the river, into steeper and steeper terrain.
Then I noticed the option 2 path – also marked. Yes! This path would surely lead us back to the road – next to the hairpins.
Once back on the road, I decided to cross the road and continue off-trail along the river until we reached the last hairpin curve.
From there on, we only had 1,5km back to the car. It was a really fun – yet tiresome hike in constant wind (maybe 10-12 m/s), but now it was almost over.
Trip statistics: 18,6km, 1150 vertical meters, 4h:30m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the trip:
