Back in Norddalen, this time on foot
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 05.05.24 | Tenna | 990m | 370m | Volda | – | MAP |
Sunday: One week after skiing Sandfjelltuva, I went back to Norddalen to hike Tenna. I visited this mountain in 2012, before Karma came into our lives. So today (also), Karma would get a new top.
The weather was stunning when we left my place on Gurskøy. When we crossed Drageskaret, I could see a wall of fog, moving in from the ocean. I could only hope that the fog would stop before it reached Syvden.
The fog stopped before reaching Syvdsfjorden. From Syvden, I got on the Norddalen road and I left the Kvanndalsvatnet road by lake Bruvatnet and followed the narrow road to lake Sætrevatnet. A few cars were parked here. There is a bridge where cars can’t cross, so I assumed this was the end of the road. I saw that I could drive down to the drain from the lake, not blocking for other traffic.
To be on the safe side, I asked a guy that was entertaining an Ukrainian group. He didn’t object. To be on the even safer side, I went over to one of the cabins, asking the same question to a guy working on his pier. He had no objections and said it being Sunday and all, no more cabin owners were expected.
So, I parked down by the river. And then came this guy (and his wife) and started yelling to me that I couldn’t park there. He told me that if there was an emergency in the mountains, the Red Cross patrol would drive across the river and park on the other side.
I guess that happens all the time…
He was really “acting up”, and I wanted to give his skull a good rub. There’s at least 10 nice ways of saying “please park somewhere else” and he chose none of them. “Okay”, I said. I’ll park there and pointed towards a place I could possibly fit the car.
“That’s where I will park”, he yelled and moved the car around so carelessly that he almost hit Karma (standing still). I lost my temper then and told him to calm the f…. down. He said nothing more. They just hurried away from the car.
I started to focus on our hike to Tenna. I didn’t know anything about any paths and was mentally prepared to take on a strenuous forest ascent.
The path we followed made a sudden turn up the forest and ended. From here, I could see a vague path and chose to follow it.
The path didn’t offer any added value compared to off-trail hiking, but I chose to stick to it.
Eventually, we rose above the forest and got Tenna in view. From there on, I wasn’t looking for paths anymore. My first goal was the 941m point, then go for the summit.
Looking back on Sandfjelltuva, I could see that it was still fully possible to enjoy a nice ski-trip there, although one could no longer ski directly from the car.
With Storefjelltinden in view, memories from the hike I did with Åsmund Steen back in 2009. We hiked from Innselset back then.
Eventually, we got onto the high ridge and sat course for point 941m.
Point 941m offered a nice view!
Then we moved on towards the summit.
I didn’t remember anything from the Tenna hike back in 2012. Back then, I hiked via lake Ternevatnet (which I today considered to be a pretty steep route).
Due to cornices, we could not stand on the true high point and so I was glad I took the panorama picture down by point 941m.
For descent, I chose to follow the SW ridge and descend into the forest at the point where we came out of it.
I do like the high Vanylven mountains. I’ve done a number of nice hikes and ski-trips here, but I don’t know these mountains as I know the Ytre Søre Sunnmøre mountains. I made a decision to become much more familiar with these mountains.
We followed the same path back down to the car. On the way back to Koparneset, the sea fog was quite a stunning sight!
Trip statistics: 6,3km, 620 vertical meters, 2h:12m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the trip:
