Lots of biking…
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 23.06.25 | Huldrehornet | 271m | 113m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.06.25 | Røddalshorn | 563m | 100m | Sande, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.06.25 | Djupvikhaugen | 98m | 29m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | – | MAP |
| 24.06.25 | Blåtind | 697m | 697m | Ulstein, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 24.06.25 | Djupvikhaugen | 98m | 29m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | – | MAP |
| 25.06.25 | Osberget | 134m | 36m | Ulstein, Norway | MAP | |
| 26.06.25 | Storetua | 592m | 249m | Sande, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 27.06.25 | Rambjøra | 132m | 109m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 27.06.25 | Leikongeidet | 160m | 0m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | – | MAP |
| 28.06.25 | Muletua | 253m | 65m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 28.06.25 | Barmen | 278m | 245m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 28.06.25 | Leikongeidet | 160m | 0m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | – | MAP |
| 29.06.25 | Tua (Store Nausen) | 145m | 12m | Sande, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 29.06.25 | Around Gurskøya | – | – | Herøy/Sande, M&R, Norway | – | MAP |
Huldrehornet (271m), Jun 23 2025
Monday: The day before, I got tipped off about a nest – possibly eagle – in the Huldrehornet forest, so this afternoon I wanted to take a look.
I parked at MYFO and Karma didn’t want to walk. I told her that today, she would simply have to. “OK, then” and then she walked. Enigma…
I found the nest, and I saw something moving in it. I couldn’t see it very well with my naked eyes, but took a number of pictures that I hoped would tell me more.
That was fun, but I didn’t want to hang around for too long. The mom probably picked a place she found to be very nice and quiet.
So, we moved on, in the direction of Huldrehornet. Karma looked at me every now and then, just to let me know that she felt too old for this.
But I knew that if she picked up a scent, she would NOT be too old for this. And sure enough, there was the scent, and she was five years old again.
She took her time to reach the top. Something interesting in the bushes, surely. But for sure not birds or hares or anything like that. Most likely rodents. I don’t work too hard to prevent her from finding those.
I didn’t see any of the forecasted rain and was happy that top #1 (yes, there would be one more this afternoon) was free of rain.
And then we headed back down.
Trip statistics: 4,2km, 300 vertical meters, 1h:13m
Røddalshorn (563m), Jun 23 2025
Monday: The hike across Huldrehornet didn’t give me the vertical meters I “needed”, so after dropping Karma off at home, I went up to Leikongeidet to hike Røddalshorn.
It’s a hike I’ll have forgotten about in two days, but it was 400 vertical meters and that’s what this hike was all about.
I then realized that it was Midsummer’s eve. A time when people get together with family, friends and neighbours. And here I was, on my own, just thinking about vertical meters. Hmm… maybe I should set the alarm for next year’s Midsummer’s eve and spend it with someone…
Trip statistics: 3,6km, 390 vertical meters, 0h:57m
Djupvikhaugen (98m), Kjeldsund, Jun 23 2025
Monday: On this Midsummer’s eve, I took Karma to the ball cage. But for the first time, I’ve noticed that the rubber pellets are sticking to the felt ball, and I don’t want that in her mouth. So, either we’ll have to play with a non-sticky ball or avoid the ball cage altogether.
The sun was still high, and I wanted to go on a bike trip. Maybe to Kjeldsund, Hestholmen and back. But when I passed the Djupvikhaugen trailhead, I could not resist going up – only for the fun ride back down. It’s so frickin’ fun, and today I was just blasting it.
I continued down to Kjeldsund…
… and Hestholmen, before returning home. It was a good “payday” in terms of vertical meters – 915m is a good start to the week…
Trip statistics: 11,9km on bike, 220 vertical meters, 0h:55m
Blåtind (697m), Djupvikhaugen (98m), Jun 24 2025
Tuesday: Oh, what a night. I wasn’t tired and didn’t get to be until 1am, looking forward to a 6-hour sleep. But at 3am, my subconsciousness informed me that there was a dog walking around in the bedroom. Sure enough, and this dog had to get out. Acute diarrhea. As such, I know that the rest of the night was ruined. She had to go out every hour until I finally crawled out of bed at 7, as complete wreck.
Thanks to coffee and interesting work, I had a decent working day and after work, I decided to hike Blåtind – the highest top on the Hareidelandet island. I chose the steepest route possible, probably to have a notion about taking a shortcut. Timewise, I would probably have hiked faster if I stuck to the trail.
I normally don’t need breaks on this 630 vertical meter route, but today I had to treat myself with a couple. I was dog meat.
Then I ran into sheep. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen sheep on Blåtind before. They seemed relaxed enough, just shying away a little bit.
I just plodded on, listening to podcasts and eventually made it to the top.
I didn’t mind the fog. As long as it wasn’t raining, I didn’t care of the fog was thick as peanut butter.
Back home, Karma was overwhelmed about my return. Of course, as I had been away for two whole hours. I decided to take her up Djupvikhaugen.
I drove up to the Djupvikhaugen trailhead. She wouldn’t walk. “OK, pretty please, then?” She wouldn’t walk. “With sugar on top?” She walked like 3 meters then stopped. When I got home earlier, she was running around in circles, and she would definitely not have any problems walking around the neighbourhood, smelling the roses. But she couldn’t come along on this gentle 1,2km (in total!) walk with me?
I pushed my bike up to the top of the first hill and called for her. She didn’t move. Then I gave an imitation of her mother’s voice in her most grumpy hour. She couldn’t ignore that and came along.
A woman was doing some garden work next to the trail and looked at me as if I was the most horrible person on this planet. “Poor dog” was all I could hear.
As soon as Karma understood that I was serious, she came along, took the lead and it didn’t take long before she seemed quite normal.
After treats on top, I looked forward to the descent, feeling like a little kid about to open the bag of candies.
Karma ran ahead of me, I followed, enjoying myself immensely.
Back at the trailhead, Karma wanted to get back to the car. But I was able to sweet-talk her to walk back home.
Then I took the bike and returned to pick up the car, like twice the past week…
Blåtind: 5km, 630 vertical meters, 1h:37m
Djupvikhaugen: 8km on bike, 160 vertical meters, 0h:59m
Osberget (134m), Jun 24 2026
Wednesday: After work, I drove to Ulsteinvik to “drag” Karma across Osberget. To my surprise, she was quite willing today and walked the short distance to the top without protests.
She didn’t object when I continued hiking, either.
When we got to the “Troll forest”, she became a bit hesitant, so I had pull out some “magic”. We descended steeply (off-trail) in the forest down to Skeide. Oh, she liked that.
She hadn’t considered the fact that we would have to get back up again, but as long as we continued to stay off-trail, it was OK.
When we reached the gravel road between Skeide and Bugarden, she looked very old. Perhaps it was the warm weather.
I wanted a little more exercise and made sure the car was sufficiently ventilated, and left her in the car with windows open and water. She would be OK.
I decided that today was the day I would bike from Bugarden, up “Mørdarbakken” and to the top of Skarpeidet (359m) without having to get off the bike. I haven’t been able to do that with my new bike before, and I’m not 100% sure if I actually ever did it. I’m pretty sure I’ve done “Mørdarbakken” in one go but maybe that was before the Skarpeidet road existed.
I figured that if I couldn’t do it today, with more than 300km on bike for the past 3 weeks, I would not be able to do it at all.
I am not exaggerating – this is bloody hard work. The hill was in general done in the 2nd lowest gear. In the 5 pitches that are steeper than the rest, I had to switch to the 3rd lowest gear and stand up, making sure all my energy was going straight into the ground – to prevent the back wheel from spinning.
After these pitches, I had to switch to the lowest gear for short periods, just to catch my breath.
The most technical part was in the upper part of “Mørdarbakken” where the gravel is loose. It was incredibly hard work.
But I got up, and I was so happy!
I blasted down to the waterworks, and the down to Ulsteinvik via Vikemyrane. In Ulsteinvik, I met my buddy Morten, on his way to Skeide to return via Bugarden. Perfect!
Morten was impressed by my “Mørdarbakken” and Skarpeidet climb and said now the challenge was on him.
I was back with Karma 56 minutes after leaving her. She was fine.
Trip statistics: 2,7km on foot, 10,2km on bike, 590 vertical meters, 1h:46m
Storetua (592m) + biking, Jun 26 2025
Thursday: For some time, I’ve been wanting to bike across Storetua’s summit ridge – almost 900m long. But in order to do that, I would have to push the bike all the way from Holtane and up the mountain. I decided that today would be the day I did just that.
I wanted Karma to come along. When we got to Holtane, I ranted on in an overly silly, happy voice with some excessive handclapping. That seemed to get her fired up. One problem solved.
I was able to bike 0,6km before I had to start shoving the bike. It was hard work from the get-go.
It was incredibly hard work to push the bike from Brekkelva and up. The flies drove me almost crazy.
But eventually, we reached the summit plateau, and I was so happy…
But, the biking wasn’t all that fun, as the terrain was more rocky than I remembered it to be. But, I was able to bike to the summit cairn.
Oh, what a delight. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to bike all the way down, but it would be downhill.
I biked across the plateau and down the first hill, before I had to get off the bike.
From Brekkelva and down to the trailhead, the biking was quite fun.
Back at the car, I left Karma in it and went for a bike trip down to Gurskebotn and back up. It only too me 35 minutes, but now I had climbed Storetua from sea level to top.
Trip statistics: 6,2km on foot/bike, 8,9km on bike, 720 vertical meters, 2h:15m
Rambjøra (132m) + bike trip to Leikongeidet, Jun 27 2025
Friday: If I go to bed 10pm, tired, I typically wake up at 5am. Today as well. I couldn’t sleep anymore, walked the dog, had breakfast and clocked into work 5:50am. After a long and productive working day, I fancied some trail maintenance – for the first time this year.
I picked up the brush cutter from the neighbour and headed up the Rambjøra forest, together with Karma. There were no protests. She was on fire until she realized that this would be a slooooow walk to the top.
1,5 hours later, we arrived on top, and the trail was in a much better shape.
Such patience calls for a reward…
After the hike, I took a short bike-trip up to Leikongeidet – and to the top of the trail they’re developing, just to get some vertical meters.
Rambjøra: 3,5km, 150 vertical meters, 2h:00m
Leikongeidet: 7km on bike, 235 vertical meters, 0h:32m
Muletua (253m), Barmen (278m) + bike trip to Leikongeidet
Saturday: The weather was quite unstable today, but in the end, I took a chance and drove to Nerlandsøya to hike across Muletua and Barmen. I don’t know why I am always attracted to the most exposed spots when the weather is shaky. Maybe it’s because there are chances to get some good photos.
It was really windy today. Gusts in the 20 range. Karma was a bit hesitant in the beginning, but when I put the leash on her, she just started walking. Very strange.
Once we got past the unexplainable point where I am confident she’s all in, I took off the leash. My hands were cold and it’s not as if she’s running after anything.
Halfway up the mountain, the first rain shower came upon us…
There were people by the hut near the top, so I took her back on leash as a courtesy. I do respect that not everyone is comfortable with dogs.
The top was truly windy!
Then we sat course for Barmen.
The whitecaps on the sea were astonishing!
It had stopped raining, and we reached the top of Barmen in nice weather and less wind than on Muletua.
It was still windy, though…
We descended down to the waterworks building above Kvalsvik.
Then we followed the Muletua path, below Barmen. We met some locals who thought it was nice with strangers.
I had never walked the entire path between Muletua and the waterworks, so that was nice.
Eventually, we reached the Mulevika – Muletua path and headed back down to the car.
I rested for an hour, then I drove to Leikong to do the same round on my bike, as I did the day before.
I love this round. The climb doesn’t feel very hard, and the descent is so incredibly enjoyable. It’s a nice way to get 200+ vertical meters when they are “needed”
Muletua/Barmen: 6,3km, 420 vertical meters, 1h:41m
Leikongeidet: 7,5km on bike, 240 vertical meters, 0h:36m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the day:
Eventyrstien, Gursken & Store Nausen (145m), Jun 29 2025
Sunday: It was a rainy and miserable day, and I decided to sleep until 10am and get a number of tasks done, that had been piling up over the past weeks. It was a good day in that respect.
Late in the afternoon, I drove to Gursken to give Karma a walk around the Eventyrstien path.
We parked by the church and Karma gave me the “you’re not thinking I’ll come along for a HIKE, do ya?”
I wasn’t in a mood for debating it. I clapped her gently on her bum and vamos’ed her.
It’s such a fun forest. I mean, how can she NOT be interested?
Eventually, she was game, and we had good fun…
Clearly, we had to deviate from the Eventyrstien loop and go to the top of Store Nausen. I told Karma it was because of the views, but I just really felt for the extra vertical meters.
Shortly after, we were back on Eventyrstien and enjoyed the ingenuity.
I tried to get a selfie at the entrance, and it was supposed to look like the picture I took of Anne back in March, except that I was on the man side. But my arms weren’t long enough…
Trip statistics: 2,2km, 170 vertical meters, 0h:40m
Around Gurskøya on bike, Jun 29 2025
Sunday: 8:30pm in the evening, I was restless. It had stopped raining and the asphalt was dry. I decided to go for a bike trip. Initially, just up to Leikongeidet and back, but I really, really wanted to go around the island so that I could “clock” 100km+ on bike for the 4th week in a row.
I left the house 9pm and didn’t even get to Leikong before I ran into the rain. I soon got wet, but I wasn’t really cold. I decided to await my decision until I got to Leikongeidet.
At Leikongeidet, it was raining even more, I was even more wet, but still not cold. I thought to myself – Let’s be bold…
And so, it was on. When I think about the loop around the island, it never feels as long as it actually is, even if I completely well know the actual distance. But my mind goes – once done with the hill up to Leikongeidet, it’s all downhill and flats.
That’s not true. There were actually more vertical meters awaiting after passing Leikongeidet, than before. That’s amazing, because I can’t really think of one single hill. It’s more a wave. Up, down, up, down, etc.
Anyway, it was nice to get to Haugsbygda and hammer on the pedals to stay warm. I had some headwind, not a whole lot and I felt I was missing a high gear. I had more to go on but there weren’t any heavier gears.
At Gjøneset, I stopped for a couple of minutes, as my butt was aching.
I returned home 2h:10m after leaving. I was sore, wet and cold but the only thing on my mind was – could I make it below 2 hours? The stop at Gjøneset costed me 2 minutes and I had a 1-minute technical stop at Tjørvåg. Could I possibly cut 7 minutes on this route? Time would tell..
Trip statistics: 47,8km on bike, 545 vertical meters, 2h:10m
