Local hikes. Varying weather…
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 09.03.26 | Gjøna | 531m | 163m | Sande, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 09.03.26 | Saursegga | 516m | 93m | Sande, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 10.03.26 | Sneldelida | 633m | 104m | Ulstein/ Hareid, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 11.03.26 | Gyrinakken | 365m | 157m | Herøy/Sande, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 11.03.26 | Heida | 239m | 126m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 12.03.26 | Huldrehornet | 271m | 113m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 13.03.26 | Årvikveten | 458m | 205m | Sande, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 13.03.26 | Grøthornet | 298m | 50m | Sande, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 14.03.26 | Skolma | 636m | 483m | Hareid/ Ulstein, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 15.03.26 | Remøykammen | 184m | 41m | Herøy, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 15.03.26 | Vardane (Remøyfjellet) | 188m | 188m | Herøy, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 15.03.26 | Vasseidet | 162m | 69m | Herøy, Norway | WCP | MAP |
Gjøna (531m), Saursega (516m), Mar 9 2026
Monday: The afternoon was cloudy and gloomy, and rain was on its way. I decided to go to Gjøna – a short hike in case of rain – and it would give me my daily dose of 500 vertical meters.
I have this urge to check out the northwest ridge, but every time I get to Gjøneset, I always find it too steep. Maybe one day soon I will at least check it out.
So, I went for my normal route. It’s steep, but safe. At least if I don’t stumble in the most exposed part…
I didn’t have a lot of energy but put one foot in front of the other and enjoyed a podcast.
I arrived on top 42 minutes after heading out. Absolutely nothing to brag about. When I get my energy back, I will try to do it in 30.
It was quite windy up there, so I didn’t want to hang around too long.
As it hadn’t started to rain yet, I decided to also hike Saursegga.
Saursegga is only a 95 vertical meter ascent. In and out in “no time”. Or maybe I should say up and down…
From Saursegga, I took an off-trail route halfway down the mountain and got myself some new tracks for my GPS map. Bonus!
Trip statistics: 4,9km, 630 vertical meters, 1h:42m
Sneldelida (633m), Mar 10 2026
Tuesday: This hike is featured on a separate post…
Gyrinakken (365m), Heida (239m), Mar 11 2026
Wednesday: I had a consecutive tension headache from 3am and throughout the day. It was a bad day. But I wouldn’t miss the afternoon hike though.
It was windy – 20 m/s gusts and incoming bad weather. Not a good combination. I had saved the round-trip hike across Gyrinakken and Heida for exactly such a day.
I parked at Kleppefurene and sat course for Gyrinakken and enjoyed a podcast.
The weather was still OK when I reached the top of Gyrinakken.
My next stop was Heida.
I took a steep off-trail route down to Rosskar and followed the gravel road to Jøsokbakken.
Then I followed the path up to Heida. It’s a path you don’t just stumble across. You have to know about it…
I could feel raindrops and I could see that bad weather covering the Vanylven mountains. Time to get back down!
It’s just insane. I got in the car, turned on the engine and then the heavens opened up. My windshields went directly to triple speed. Talk about timing!
Trip statistics: 8,4km, 500 vertical meters, 2h:07m
2 x Huldrehornet (271m), Mar 12 2026
Thursday: The forecast for the afternoon was grim. Snow in the higher local mountains and rain further down. And wind of course. Lots of it. I had no interest in holding on to my hat for 2 hours and chose to hike Huldrehornet twice.
My Iphone13 Pro Max is no longer a new model, but when it came out, I felt the pictures were crap already then. Today, I had changed the settings to the Apple format that my Windows machine didn’t understand – without Lightroom. But still, the pictures look like crap. When I zoom in, I see pixels, not details. No worries. I can just bring my Canon. But not today.
After reaching the top, I took an off-trail forest route back down.
It’s actually tempting to clear this route, making a proper path of it. The only thing holding me back, is that there are not many places in this forest the deer can be undisturbed. So, if I have to choose between the two, the choice is clear. We have enough paths as it is.
Then I went back up one more time, this time coming out from the south side. It was quite windy on top, but I didn’t have to hold on to my hat.
I was lucky. The weather got much worse after I returned home.
Trip statistics: 4,5km, 490 vertical meters, 1h:27m
Årvikveten (458m), Grøthornet (298m), Mar 13 2026
Friday: The forecast for the afternoon was highly misleading. It was going to stay just cloudy the rest of the day. I had my doubts when the rain was pouring down outside 3:30pm, but at 4pm it had stopped, and I could spot blue sky!
My first thought was to hike one of the 600m tops, but then I noticed they were covered in fresh snow from 300m and up. So, I decided to drive to Drageskaret to hike Årvikveten instead. Less snow on that side of the island.
I’ve said it before – when all the mountains > 500m on the island have snow, Gjøna (which I visited on Monday) – very often hasn’t. And it was true today as well. What IS IT with this mountain?
I put on a good podcast, but I hadn’t gotten very far before it was so windy I could barely hear what they talked about.
The weather was unclear. Would it stay “just cloudy” for the rest of the day?
At least, it was actually less snow on this side of the island and the onward route to Veten didn’t seem strenuous, based on the amount of snow.
But then…
… a snow shower. Which in itself isn’t bad, but in this wind – not good.
But the snow shower passed quickly and the hike up to the top was OK.
It was nice to be back – and my first visit here in 2026!
Now the question was – what would be my return route? My shoes were soaking wet and I was a little bit cold. But I wanted to get 500 vertical meters, and I would not get that by returning the way I came.
So, I decided to go for a round-trip hike via lake Nyksvatnet and Grøthornet.
By now, my feet were seriously cold. Everything else was OK.
I would not get any new tracks today. No off-trail escapades. Just follow the shortest route back to Drageskaret, via paths.
Approaching Grøthornet, the weather deteriorated.
Soon after, I was in another snow shower, which wasn’t too bad with much less wind at my elevation.
The snow shower turned into rain, as I got closer to the trailhead. I figured this was a descent hike for a Friday afternoon…
Trip statistics: 8,9km, 550 vertical meters, 2h:30m
Skolma (636m), Mar 14 2026
Saturday: This hike is featured on a separate post…
Remøykammen (184m), Vardane (188m), Vasseidet (162m), Mar 15 2026
Sunday: The headache was gone and I spent the morning hours catching up with my blog and plotting Gapahuks (lean-to shelters) on my GPS map. It came over me that it could be fun do a weekend hike-and-bike trip with Anne, visiting all the Gapahuks on Ytre Søre Sunnmøre (not counting Vanylven). I got some valuable help from Bjørn Skoge and now I had close to 30 Gapahuks on my map. There are even more…
It was already past noon, and the weather forecast promised rain at 4pm. As such, I decided to do a hike across Remøya, as I hadn’t been there in 2026.
Instead of parking at Kvianeset (which I normally do), I parked by the bridge and walked to Kvianeset.
The weather was nice and the wind was not too bad.
My first podcast was the latest episode in the Lars Monsen “Universe”.
Normally, I do this hike on afternoons when daylight is scarce. But today, I had plenty of time and enjoyed taking pictures.
43km to the northeast, I could see the wind turbines on Haramsøya, in addition to the lighthouses Grasøyane and Erkna.
Then it was time to move on.
My next stop was Sævikhatten, aka Vardane, before continuing to Vasseidet.
The podcast ended and then the NRK app automatically suggested that I should listen to “Seriesnakk” – seemingly a podcast discussing TV series. That was not something I was interested in, but then I understood that they were discussing “Stoltenberg I møte med krigen” (“Stoltenberg facing war”) – a documentary I had seen, and I thought it would be interesting to get a “behind the scenes” dive.
A little bit later, I was on the island high point.
The hike between Remøykammen and Sævikhatten is only 1,6km.
My next stop was Vasseidet – a top I seldom visit. Actually, was only my 4th visit.
I took another picture of Runde before I headed off-trail down the east flank.
The plan was to hike through the tunnel (almost 1km) and then hike back up to Sævikhatten – just to get 500 vertical meters.
Having both a headlamp and a reflective safety vest as standard rucksack gear was practical today.
Walking (opposed to faster activities) offers time to look at things that you otherwise don’t notice. Like, the inner structure of a tunnel. This was not the highlight of the year. But still…
From Sævik, I started out along the normal path, but then I went off-trail and had to negotiate some “you shall not pass!” burnt out trees.
From Sævikhatten, I followed the route back to Remøykammen 550 meters, then I turned right and followed a vague path that I quickly lost. I ended up in really cumbersome terrain – a dense spruce forest – before I got down to the main road.
I crossed the road and hiked along the shore (like I aways do when I hike on this island). I really enjoyed it.
I got back to the car in good time before the rain came in. All in all, a very good hike! Getting 520 vertical meters on an island where the high point is 188m suggests a creative round-trip hike…
Trip statistics: 10km, 520 vertical meters, 2h:48m
