The leisure life continues…
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | MAP |
| 27.06.14 | Storkyrkleppen | 95m | 87m | Lurøy, Norway | MAP |
| 27.06.14 | Anfjellet | 179m | 80m | Lurøy, Norway | MAP |
| 27.06.14 | Stokksvikfjellet | 197m | 197m | Lurøy, Norway | MAP |
| 28.06.14 | Lurøyfjellet | 689m | 689m | Lurøy, Norway | MAP |
Continued from: Lovundfjellet, June 27 2014
Storkyrkleppen (95m), Onøyfjellet (197m), June 27 2014
After visiting Lovund, we arrived on Onøy, where we would spend the day, and part of the next…
As we now had access to a car (Bjørn Eirik picked up his car on Sleneset), Anne and Bjørn Eirik drove to find a place to camp. Then Bjørn Eirik returned to the harbor to pick up me and Karma.
They had found a good campsite (near Ørnvika), with permission from the landowner.
The others were not in hiking mood. Anne had just “landed” and Bjørn Eirik was nursing a bad knee. So, I took Karma and headed for the highest top on Onøy island – Stokksvikfjellet, aka Onøyfjellet, aka Høgfjellet.
Then Anne changed her mind, called me and said she wanted to join in on the hike. As I hadn’t come that far, I returned, but took the opportunity to visit Storkyrkleppen (95m) upon my return.
This was eagle country, and it didn’t take long before the first one was flying by…
I had a decent camera, but I must have messed up the camera settings because none of the pictures from the entire vacation up north came out as I hoped…
Storkyrkleppen is not a mountain with a prominence > 100m, but it was a bonus top and it was nice to be here.
The view from the top was pretty good!
Not only did we have a good view towards Lurøyfjellet – which we would visit the next day, but also Hestmannen – to be visited the following day.
Back in camp, Anne wanted to hike Onøyfjellet from the north side and we borrowed Bjørn Eirik’s car. I did not get friendly with the clutch and smoke was coming out from the engine. I stopped the car, thinking I had cooked it.
But the car started afterwards and we returned to the camp, where Bjørn Eirik took the car for a test drive. Meanwhile, we sat out for Onøyfjellet – this time from the camp…
In order to get to Stokksvikfjellet (Onøyfjellet), we had to cross Anfjellet.
There were so many mountains to see. Little did we know that we would visiting some of them later on. We didn’t really have any concrete plans other than the coastal islands.
One thing was for sure – we looked forward to get to the top of Hestmannen – in a couple of days.
Then we moved on towards the Onøy island high point. To get there, we had to cross the Nonskaret pass.
We had hiked Lovundfjellet (623m) in the morning, after leaving Træna very early in the morning. And as such, Anne had hoped for an an easy hike up to Onøyfjellet, but didn’t get one. And the flies didn’t help either…
But eventually, we reached the top…
Another coastal high point “in the bag“
From the top, we took the shortest route down the north side, but we didn’t find the path until we were almost down.
What was supposed to be a short afternoon hike, became a cumbersome hike, almost 10km.
But, the day ended on a good note, after Anne found a nice place to serve a late evening dinner…
Karma was exhausted. She wasn’t even 2 years and the days were long and packed with new impressions.
Life was good…
(The Lurøyfjellet hike continues after the picture gallery…)
Pictures (Canon EOS) from the hike(s):
Lurøyfjellet (685m), June 28 2014
After breakfast, Bjørn Eirik started his kayak trip to Hestmona island, where he would look for a good campsite and we would follow in the afternoon.
Karma hated that the group was splitting up all the time…
Now that we had access to Bjørn Eirik’s car (still working), we drove to Solheim and parked by the kindergarden. Now, the high point on Lurøy island was awaiting…
According to my notes from back then, we “held left in an fork (no signpost) and took the fastest route to the top”.
The terrain was easy, but it was still a 600m+ ascent. We met a couple on their way down, attending a wedding on the island. On our way down, we met other wedding guests, heading up the mountain.
1h:23m after heading out, we reached the high point on Lurøy island.
We could now enjoy a grand coastline view…
Not a bad word spoken about Jotunheimen, Rondane, Lofoten Sunnmørsalpene and Lyngsalpene but they can’t compare to the diverse Helgeland…
Hestmannen on Hestmona was our next goal, and after that, Rødøyløva on Rødøy…
To me, a vacation couldn’t get better than this. I wouldn’t trade this for a white, sandy beach on Tahiti…
Speaking of white, sandy beaches. Why go to Tahiti…
It was time to get off the mountain. We had a new place to go to…
After the hike, we went for something to eat and enjoy a glass of wine & beer. We would leave Bjørn Eirik’s car behind on Lurøy and get on the express boat to Hestmona.
Eventually, it was time to get on the express boat to Hestmona and leave Lurøy behind…
Pictures (Canon 60D) from the hike:
Continued on: Hestmannen, June 28-29 2014
