Summer vacation, day 20
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 01.08.25 | Valøytinden | 135m | 130m | Nærøysund, Norway | – | MAP |
| 01.08.25 | Sulafjellet | 147m | 145m | Nærøysund, Norway | – | MAP |
| 01.08.25 | Dalatinden | 160m | 126m | Nærøysund, Norway | – | MAP |
| 01.08.25 | Hasfjordtindan | 131m | 120m | Nærøysund, Norway | – | MAP |
| 01.08.25 | Juva | 125m | 110m | Nærøysund, Norway | – | MAP |
| 01.08.25 | Lyngsneshesten | 143m | 135m | Nærøysund, Norway | – | MAP |
Continued from summer vacation, day 19…
Valøytinden (135m), Aug 1 2025
Friday: This day exceeded my expectations. First, we drove to Valøya (not an island, despite the name) to hike Valøytinden.
We found the trailhead and the marked path up the mountain.
The path was easy to follow. Iron markers with arrows. Quite impressive. After a while, the path descended a little bit, to avoid a slightly more cumbersome route straight ahead. If you’re used to hiking, there is no need to descend.
Along the way, you will pass “Kapteinholet”. Apparently, a ship sunk and the crew sought shelter in this cleft. The captain went to get water in the cleft but drowned. Quite a dramatic story!
The rest of the route to the top was easy.
And then we were up!
The views were excellent. The landscape was really interesting. I can only imagine that the song “Hompetitten heia” originated from here…
It was too bad that Valøya wasn’t a real island, so we could tick off another top on our “island high point” list.
We returned the same way we came, except that we didn’t descend via the “Gapahuk”.
Trip statistics: 2,5km, 165 vertical meters, 0h:53m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Sulafjellet (147m), Aug 1 2025
Friday: After Valøytinden, we decided to hike Sulafjellet. We had noticed an information board and a trailhead near the south end of Åksetvågen and decided to try our luck from there.
There was indeed a path, slightly cumbersome in the beginning.
But we soon got above the trees and could set course towards the antenna.
The path was visible and easy to follow.
The high point was beyond the antenna. Top #2 for the day was already in the bag. I had an ambition of getting 3 tops, something Anne supported. I omitted the “at least” part.
We agreed that our 3rd top would be Dalatinden – over there with the wind turbines. The plan was to go biking there.
But first, we had to finish the Sulafjellet hike.
Trip statistics: 2,3km, 160 vertical meters, 0h:46m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Dalatinden (160m), Aug 1 2025
Friday: We then drove to the beginning of the road leading up to the wind turbines. I had bought a brand-new bike rack before the summer vacation, and we used it on our way to the north. But now that we had lost Karma, there was no reason to drive around with a cage, occupying ¼ of the space in the rear compartment. As such, we had room for both bikes in the back. We just had to get them out first. We found a good technique in unloading most of our luggage, then getting the bikes out, and the luggage back in.
In the beginning, we followed an asphalt road upwards.
After a while, the road turned to gravel.
We biked up to where I thought the high point was, and we found a hut up there. Perhaps a mix between a lean-to shelter and a visitor’s centre.
There was however a little doubt. Was this really the high point? There was another point – 200m to the east, which seemed equally high. We just had to check that one out too.
But for now, we assumed the high point had been visited…
We continued biking along the service road until we reached the turbine nearest to the other point. From there, we hiked.
I challenged Anne to not take the easiest route down…
…and not the easiest route up.
Eventually, we reached the other top – maybe a few cm lower than the top we visited first.
Now that the high point (wherever it was) was “secured”, we returned to the trailhead, enjoying the bike ride down the mountain.
Then followed the same procedure, luggage out, bikes in, luggage in. We now had a technique that could be repeated, if necessary.
Trip statistics: 8,3km on bike, 0,7km on foot, 300 vertical meters, 1h:00m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Hasfjordtindan (131m), Aug 1 2025
Friday: We now had 3 new tops, but I was in the mood for more. Anne was not necessarily sharing my hunger, but I think I “sold in” the concept of checking out the rugged Hasfjordtindan – at least from a distance.
A Peakbook.org report didn’t increase her enthusiasm about an easy ascent to the high point of this “knuckles”. I was the quite opposite. If it really was that hard, I wanted to find out for myself.
We drove to the Grunnan farm, where we spoke to the owner. He said that people occasionally came around and that it should be possible to reach the high point. That was as specific as he got. He invited us to park on his property and head out wherever we pleased.
By now, Anne had gotten interested and we decided to follow the “main valley” from his house.
There was a vague path through the forest, which we followed until we were below the pass between point 131m and 114,7m.
Then we hiked up to the right, and eventually, we saw the south face of the high point.
It looked intimidating, but I noticed a ledge on the southeast corner. I told Anne that she could wait while I checked it out. After a quick inspection, I found that this corner provided access to the south ridge, and I called on her to follow.
The rest of the hike up was easy.
We were mighty pleased that this cool top provided such an easy ascent, especially after reading the story about the “most difficult peak in Vikna”. And probably it is…
We followed the same route down and by now, Anne seemed to have found some newborn inspiration.
Trip statistics: 1,8km, 140 vertical meters, 0h:48m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Juva (125m), Aug 1 2025
Friday: I mentioned the idea about a 5th and final top – perhaps Juva near Lyngsnes? Anne had one demand – she wanted to take a bath first. We drove around Lyngsnes but couldn’t find a place that met her criteria. After a while, she decided to just come along for the hike.
But where would we go? There lower part of the mountain offered a forest that didn’t seem to welcome visitors. I decided to stop by a house where I could see a car. A woman stuck her head out the window. I explained our business and she told us there was a path just behind the house, and we were welcome to park on their property. Excellent!
We found the path right away.
Minutes later, we were above the forest and could follow a visible path up the mountain.
It was a bit weird. None of the tops we visited today exceeded 200m, but they still felt like genuine coastal tops. Maybe because of their rugged nature.
In not too long, we were standing on top of Juva.
It was cool to see Hasfjordtindan from this angle. They looked rugged indeed!
Eventually, we headed back down, along the route we ascended. Back at the car, Anne asked me about the mountain opposite the road, as she had overheard the woman in the house talking to me about it. And then she gave thumbs up for top #6 – and the final top for the day.
Trip statistics: 1,1km, 120 vertical meters, 0h:29m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
Lyngsneshesten (143m), Aug 1 2025
Friday: We drove a farm road in the direction of Lyngsnesengan. I sincerely hoped that we wouldn’t meet a car because the turnouts were scarce, to put it mildly. The woman we had spoken to had mentioned a quarry, but we didn’t see anything resembling a quarry and we drove to the end of the road.
Here, we met a truly original character, just laughing at these weird strangers. It was barely possible to keep a conversation with him, but we told him that we wanted to hike Lyngsneshesten and that we had observed a wooden arrow along the way. He confirmed that was the starting point for the path.
We drove back, parked by the wooden arrow and found the path up the mountain.
It was yet another easy hike, along nice slabs and grass.
It was nice to see Anne’s “mojo”, on a rising curve throughout the day. And now she knew that this was the last top. (All tops on Ytter-Vikna island!)
It didn’t take long to reach the top and although this was our last top for the day, I just wanted to go on rambling in this “candy store”. But we had made a dinner reservation at the 64° Nord restaurant in the evening, and that we should be back in time for a hot-dog and a shower.
A hot-dog? Yes, when you’ve been hiking all day long, without anything to eat, the restaurant main courses just don’t cut it. But with a hot-dog inside first, it gets better.
It was time to return to the hotel…
After the hike, Anne insisted on a swim and was no longer very particular about where it would take place…
We made the dinner reservation in time. I had the halibut the day before, so today I ordered a steak. They didn’t ask me how I wanted it. I found that a bit odd and got served what I would call a rare steak. I’m pretty sure that’s not what I would have answered, if they asked me. But I just forgot about it. At the end of the day, it was food and I needed food.
This was our last day in Rørvik. The original plan had been to drive back to Sunnmøre, but plans are only good until they’re not…
Trip statistics: 1,6km, 110 vertical meters, 0h:32m
Pictures (Canon EOS RP/Iphone 13 Pro Max) from the hike:
