Overall – an enjoyable round trip
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| 28.08.25 | Grøsfortinden | 939m | 39m | Ørsta, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 28.08.25 | Grøthornet | 1046m | 558m | Ørsta, Norway | WCP | MAP |
Thursday: So much for the promise to have an easy afternoon. The nice weather didn’t really give me a fighting chance.
After work, I decided to combine the known and unknown and drove to Liadalsdalen to see if I was able to get to Grøsfortinden, and also – pay Grøthornet a visit.
The hike up the mountain from Liadalssætra is never fun. There is a marked route, which is hard to follow in the lower part. Today, I lost track of it and ended up with some bushwacking. Very aggravating.
Eventually, I found the (vague) path and followed it until I was up in the valley between Liahornet and Grøthornet.
The grass in the valley is cumbersome. I recommend to rest your eyes on Liahornet…
… or look back on the tops on the other side of the valley…
I went up to the pass between Liahornet and Grøthornet and had a good view towards Grøsfortinden. The hillside up the ridge looked quite steep. It doesn’t look so steep on the below picture, because it’s wide angle.
If I had to deal with the gravel part of the hillside, I wouldn’t have gone up. But luckily, there were grassy routes which provided a fairly access up to the ridge.
From a distance, the ridge high point looked a bit sharp. At this point, I thought that I might not get up or had to try it from the other side.
But when I got there, there was an easy passage to the top.
I was quite happy when I reached the high point. Another new top, although it wasn’t a pf100 top.
Now what? I wanted to go to Grøthornet, and the plan was to return to the Grøthornet – Liahornet saddle and find the first best route to the top.
But as I was scrambling across the other humps on the ridge, I decided to cross the upper part of Flåskjerdalen. It looked easy enough, with exception of a part that I couldn’t see clearly. Yet, I assumed that I wouldn’t run into any problems.
The part I couldn’t see from the ridge, was a wet slab area, which I easy crossed higher up.
It was altogether easy terrain.
Soon, I was on the ridge leading to Grøthornet.
It was fun to visit Grøsfortinden. I was a little annoyed about not taking the time to visit the 896,6m top, which is actually Grøsfortinden on the map. Folks normally give names to tops they can see from down below and doesn’t care much about any higher point beyond. I guess this is such a case.
I arrived on top of Grøthornet for the 5th time.
This was one of the Sunnmøre peaks where I could bring Karma, without any problems.
Then it was time to head back down. I felt clumsy and stumbled a bit. My feet were tired after a lot of hiking the past days, and my reflexes aren’t what they used to be. As long as I am aware of it, it’s OK.
Down by Liadalssætra, I met 2 men and 2 women. One of the women – in her 70’s was standing on her head. Her goal was to still be able to do that when she turned 80. I love those kinds of goals. They were curious about my business, and we had a nice talk until I had to leave. I wanted to pass the Selvåg tunnel before it closed for convoy traffic at 8pm.
Trip statistics: 8,6km, 1000 vertical meters, 3h:08m
