2025 Week 38

Arnt Flatmo - Fjordpeaks.com

7 months ago

Local hikes + Poland trip

Index

Date	Peak	Height	PF	Location	WCP/FP	MAP
15.09.25	Ytrehornsnakken	554m	2m	Volda, Norway		MAP
16.09.25	Blåtind	697m	697m	Ulstein, Norway	WCP	MAP
17.09.25	Garnestua	654m	417m	Ulstein, Norway	WCP	MAP
18.09.25	Haddalshornet	611m	103m	Ulstein, Norway	WCP	MAP
19.09.25	Huldrehornet	271m	113m	Herøy, M&R, Norway	WCP	MAP
20.09.25	Wiezyca	329m	275m	Pomorskie, Poland	–	MAP
21.09.25	Góra Wysoka	179m	130m	Pomorskie, Poland	–	MAP
21.09.25	Slowinski National Park, Leba	–	–	Pomorskie, Poland	–	MAP
21.09.25	Rowokól	115m	100m	Pomorskie, Poland	–	MAP

Ytrehornsnakken (554m), Sep 15 2025

Monday: After work, I left Sogndal and began the 3,5-hour journey back home (on Sunnmøre). I was lucky with the convoy at Frudalstunnelen (I didn’t know there was a convoy) and got there 1 minute before the convoy left. It would have been annoying to come 1 minute late and wait 30 minutes for the next.

I had perhaps planned to hike Orkja (948m, Jølster) on my way home, but this convoy made me remember at the Selvåg tunnel closure at 8pm, close to home. As it was raining (a little), I decided to skip the hike to Orkja. I had already been there this year, so it was OK.

Approaching Grodås, I wondered if I had time to hike Ytrehornsnakken and make it back home before the tunnel closed. But how long would it take? The solution was to be found. I googled “Fjordpeaks + Ytrehornsnakken”, got several hits and picked the most recent one (2023). My own blog post told me that it took 58 minutes, up and down.

With this information, I was able to conclude that I had enough time to do the hike.

It was raining very lightly. The wipers were going back and forth but the asphalt still looked dry. In other words – not a whole lot of rain.

There is a new parking lot at the trailhead, and I applauded that. Another car came in at the same time. Two hikers were also heading for Ytrehornsnakken. As I was in a hurry, I just said hi.

I was not in shape for a speedy hike. I hadn’t eaten since breakfast and every step felt hard. Still, I hoped to get up in 30 minutes. I succeded in doing that. The 1,6km, 475 vertical meters took 29 minutes. As this was an awful day for me, it means I can still hike ~1000 vertical meters in an hour, provided that the route runs straight up and that I’m having a slightly better day.

On Ytrehornsnakken, viewing up the ridge that continues

I took a couple of pictures and started to jog down.

I met the other couple at around 400 meters elevation. They made a comment about my pace, and I told them it was only due to a tunnel closure. That was a straight up lie, of course.

I was back at the car 48 minutes after leaving and had all the time in the world to make it to the Selvåg tunnel.

This was my 6^th hike to Ytrehornsnakken, since I started doing this route in 2021. It’s not a mountain top, but it is a named point, and I really like the route.

Trip statistics: 3,3km, 475 vertical meters, 0h:48m

Blåtind (697m), Sep 16 2025

My route from Haddal/Ringstaddalen to Blåtind

Tuesday: After work, I felt like hiking Blåtind – the highest top on Hareidlandet. I hadn’t looked at the weather forecast, but the weather looked OK.

I headed out from the Ringstaddalen trailhead and tried to keep a good pace, maybe 90% of my max. hiking speed.

My heart “sunk” a little when I heard loud thunder. It was hard to pinpoint where this was going on. I decided to continue a little bit more and if the thunder persisted when I was halfway up the mountain, I would turn around.

The second time, the thunder sounded more “serious”, but I kept on going and eventually it disappeared.

Close to lake Hundelaupsvatnet, I met two women – most likely in their 70’s. They got a bit scared by the thunder too and were glad it passed.

I reached the top after 45 minutes, which was at least 5 minutes slower than I had hoped for. But it is what it is. I took a picture and headed back down.

On my way down, I passed the two women once again. They were moving slowly, which was a good thing because this path narrow and rocky. Goal #1 is always to come back down, safe and sound.

I returned home and worked some more before Anne came up from Sogndal.

Trip statistics: 6km, 620 vertical meters, 1h:22m

Garnestua (654m), Sep 17 2025

My hike across Garnestua and the biking route back to the car

Wednesday: A hard day. I drove Anne to Hareid at 4:30am, as she was taking the express boat to get on a 6:55am flight to Trondheim.

When I got back home, I couldn’t sleep and got on the PC at 6am.

4pm, I was quite tired (we didn’t sleep well during the night) but decided to take a hike across Garnestua. I drove to Løset and left my bike there. Then I drove down to Berg to hike “Martinråsa” (the Martin route).

Martin was home, and we had a chat before I headed up the forest. In not too long, the narrow path was blocked.

I didn’t fancy stepping across and had to get on a small bushwack to pass this bugger.

It had been raining all day (and very hard in the morning) but now the weather was OK. I could imagine the viper was just as keen about coming out from hiding, as I was. Could not blame him. Or her. I don’t know much about vipers and gender.

View towards Blåtind – hiked the day before

The route was especially hard today. It’s steep and everything was slippery. Then there is the loose rock and gravel. But I looked forward to getting up to the ridges.

Today, I went into a couloir I hadn’t done before. That was almost too easy, so I went up the ridge right of the couloir. That offered some steep scrambling! Quite fun!

Eventually, I was up on the plateau, and the summit was close by.

After a picture, I continued down to Løset. I met Jostein Eiken and a friend. We stopped for a chat. I normally meet Jostein on Blåtind, so he was “far away from home” today. He admitted that Blåtind got a bit tedious in the long run.

It was nice to get back to the bike and do the road back to Berg “in an instant” rather than walking.

Trip statistics: 4,5km on foot, 2,3km on bike, 520 vertical meters, 1h:38m

Haddalshornet (611m), Sep 18 2025

Thursday: It was raining all day and getting across the doorstep was hard. It wasn’t raining so much after work, and so I decided to go for a 600m top. The choice fell on Haddalshornet.

I headed out from Havåg, and the ascent went rather quickly as I had a song on my brain, that I couldn’t shake. “Chemotherapy” by Highasakite. It’s just such a fantastic song. I literally never bother to memorize the lyrics, but I made an exception for this song.

And it was nice to hike in the forest when it was raining.

It didn’t rain as much when I headed out of the forest. Bonus!

Haddalshornet to the left, Blåtind to the right

It started raining again when I was on top, and I looked forward to getting back into the forest.

Trip statistics: 6,7km, 600 vertical meters, 1h:35m

Huldrehornet (271m), Sep 19 2025

Friday: Again, rain all day and for a while, I was quite sure I wouldn’t be crossing the doorstep after work. But when the rain showers lost a bit of intensity, I decided to go to Huldrehornet. I wouldn’t get my 500 vertical meters today, but I certainly had some extra meters to take from my “spare account”, built over the past months. At this point, my 2025 average vertical meters per day was no longer 500 (the daily goal), but 618…

This was my 590th visit to Huldrehornet. I thought about going down the back side to find some fun and exposed scrambling, but with the rock being wet and slippery, I decided that maybe I should do that some other time.

It was actually NOT raining when I reached the top. Big bonus. I decided to head back down while I “was ahead”.