Counting down for the summer break…
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 01.07.24 | Huldrehornet | 271m | 113m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 02.07.24 | Leinebjørnen | 271m | 108m | Herøy, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 02.07.24 | Leinehornet | 364m | 364m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 03.07.24 | Sandhornet | 909m | 471m | Ørsta, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 04.07.24 | Grøthornet | 745m | 57m | Ørsta/Volda, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 04.07.24 | Melshornet | 809m | 567m | Ørsta, Norway | WCP | MAP |
Huldrehornet (271m), July 1 2024
Monday: I was supposed to start my summer holiday today, but I was just too tired. The body was tired after hard trail maintenance sessions and hikes in general. There’s no way I’m going to waste precious holiday days with just relaxing and doing nothing.
Work was the rescue. I could just choose to NOT begin my summer break. Just sitting down with a cup of coffee and do software development was relaxing enough.
After work, I sat out to finish clearing the last route in the Huldrehornet forest, that I had aimed to do before the summer break.
When I do something, I try to do it as good as possible can. This is a problem, because a little less if often good enough. I could easily go all in and treat the entire forest as a lawn. Trimming here. Trimming there. That is just suicide, and so I had to teach myself that what I was doing was WAY more than good enough.
I do enjoy the “end product” though. It’s much nicer to hike these paths after I’ve removed the bush making the path barely visible.
And I am thankful that I have a dog that just sits (or stands) quietly waiting for me to come along.
Of course, we had to include a top along the way and so we went up to Huldrehornet for treats and views.
I was happy about finishing my goal before the summer break, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll be too tired to start my vacation tomorrow as well. I guess Anne will break this “bad circle” when she comes up later in the week, in a jolly holiday mood…
Trip statistics: 5,3km, 360 vertical meters, 3h:21m
Leinebjørnen (271m), Leinehornet (366m), July 2 2024
Tuesday: The weather was miserable – rain and fog – but it’s very seldom that the weather is too bad for hiking lower tops like Leinebjørnen. It was an ordeal to get past the doorstep but once we were on our way, everything felt easier.
It wasn’t a very exciting hike. Another rainy and foggy day…
But when we reached the top (in the fog) I decided that we should visit Leinehornet too. The weather wasn’t THAT bad…
To my delight, the fog lifted as we began our ascent up Leinehornet…
It felt very good to reach the top! Only downhill and flats from here!
I know I would have regretted terribly staying home and watch the weather get better. And now, I didn’t have to regret anything…
Trip statistics: 8km, 540 vertical meters, 2h:46m
Sandhornet (909m), July 3 2024
Wednesday: The weather improved, I was still not in holiday mood and finished another working day. After work, I decided that I wanted to hike Sandhornet and sat course for Ørsta and Mossetra.
I always enjoy coming to Mossetra. Except when they’re rounding up the sheep in autumn. Then it’s always chaos up here.
We followed the trail in the direction of Sandhornet, but my intention was – like always when hiking from Mossetra – to go off-trail and arrive the top from the back side.
I do enjoy this off-trail route.
The only thing important is to cross *above* the surprising “gorge” that appears out of nowhere…
Oh, this is a beautiful country indeed…
Eventually, we had a rocky hillside ahead of us.
And then we were up. I had a nice chat with two hikers (dad and daughter, I presume).
The view is wonderful like always…
We took the normal route down.
We went across the 816m top and then sat course for Rambjørhornet.
We got a good Ørsta view from Rambjørhornet.
It was time to get back down. We kept a good pace down the mountain and got compliments for our pace from a woman that was wife and mother to the ones I talked to on top. They still hadn’t gotten that far and so I apologized for chatting (a lot) with them. The apology was accepted!
Trip statistics: 6,5km, 700 vertical meters, 1h:52m
Melshornet (809m), July 4 2024
Thursday: My last hike in my local region before the summer break went to Melshornet on the Ørsta – Volda border.
We started out from Bratteberg, and we hadn’t hiked for long when I had to wait until Karma had emptied the local creek.
We then went off-trail, and the original plan was to aim for the trail to Sandhornet (near the slalom hill)
But it didn’t turn out that way. Instead, I decided to continue off-trail in the direction of Grøthornet.
After a while, I realized that this was a stupid idea. The terrain was nasty, particularly for Karma. Lots of holes everywhere.
But then we caught a break as we came upon a marked trail that I didn’t know about. This path took us just west of Sandhornet and from here, we could follow the normal trail up to Grøthornet.
From Grøthornet, we had one downhill and one uphill before we stood on top of Melshornet.
And a little later, we could enjoy the great Ørsta view that we’ve enjoyed so many times before.
For descent, we followed the route down to lake Dinglavatnet, before returning to Bratteberg via Turnhytta.
In the afternoon, Anne came up from Sogndal. We spent the evening packing so we were ready to start our summer vacation and head northbound the very next day.
Trip statistics: 7,3km, 660 vertical meters, 1h:49m
July 5 – 26 2024
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