A somewhat “big” Friday afternoon hike…
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 06.09.24 | Gjugra | 1294m | 425m | Volda, Norway | – | MAP |
Friday: In my health diary, this was recorded as a good day. No headache, minor pain in the stomach, and the knee was still functioning OK. The weather was back to being gorgeous and I decided to end the working week with a hike to Sunndalsnipa (1396m). I typically don’t go for 1000+ vertical meter ascends on a Friday afternoon, but today I would make an exception.
Precious time got lost at Kalvatn, where a tractor had an incident and blocked the road. After waiting 10-15 minutes, I decided to come up with a plan B and decided to hike Gjugra from Kvivsdalssætra. I knew the place from my hike to Kviven last year.
The plan was to follow the path up to lake Kvivsvatnet and find a route up to Gjugra from there.
I was wondering if Karma remembered being here last year…
Short-cuts were out of the question…
At “Stegen”, I remember taking my shoes off last year. No need for that now…
I decided to set course for Gjugra before reaching the lake. The terrain ahead seemed altogether easy. We shouldn’t have any difficulties in finding a good route up the mountain.
I did a nice roundtrip hike here with Anne back in 2011. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to put that hike out on my blog and I only remembered fragments of us being up in the snow, early June. Anne always explains our short-term memory with “we were probably so in love…”
I had no recollection of where we went up to Gjugra in 2011, but I took it for granted that we started out from Kvivsdalssætra. Of course, I looked at the GPS track after *this* hike and found that we had begun our ascent already at “Stegen”. The only intersecting points between the 2011 hike and today’s hike were a 40m pitch at 1060m elevation…
Eventually, the summit came into view. I was glad to see that. I hoped to enjoy some of Friday afternoon back home before going to bed…
And then we were up!
Of course, I must post a summit picture of Anne from the 2011 hike. Now the whole family has been up here!
We did a much longer hike in 2011. We were younger and … in love! From Gjugra, we continued across Høgenibba (1191m) and Kviven (1023m) before descending Kviven’s north ridge. Which meant we had to ford the river. I remembered that part…
It was nice to be back!
The views are good from this top (well it’s good from most of the Sunnmøre alps) but it was a bit hazy. I didn’t go nuts with my camera this time…
On descent, I tried to stick to our ascent route as much as possible. I wasn’t able to do it purely on sight and had to check with the GPS from time to time. Everything looks different when going down.
When I got back to Kvivsdalssætra, there was a guy with an ATV and binoculars. I wasn’t sure if he scouted for sheep to bring down or deer to kill. In any case, I hadn’t seen any sheep and didn’t feel any need to engage in a conversation.
We were back at the car just after 8pm – some 3 hours after heading out. I had an hour’s drive back home ahead of me, and it started to get dark on my way back. Not for a second had I thought about the fact that the evenings are much shorter now. It was a good thing I wasn’t going for a longer hike…
Trip statistics: 10,2km, 950 vertical meters, 3h:09m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
