Hiking week back home before northern Norway
| 18.05.26 | Årheimsfjellet | 1007m | 177m | Stryn, Norway | FP | MAP |
| 19.05.26 | Løkeberget | 579m | 300m | Hareid, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 20.05.26 | Laupsnipa | 562m | 380m | Herøy/Sande, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 21.05.26 | Røddalshorn | 563m | 103m | Sande, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.05.26 | Øyrahornet | 417m | 42m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.05.26 | Skåla | 184m | 86m | Herøy, M&R, Norway | MAP | |
| 24.05.26 | Gullsiberget | 537m | 262m | Trondheim, Norway | MAP | |
| 24.05.26 | Fjæremsåsen | 268m | 132m | Trondheim, Norway | MAP | |
| 24.05.26 | Liaåsen | 429m | 254m | Trondheim, Norway | MAP |
Årheimsfjellet (1007m), May 18 2026
Monday: After finishing my working day in Sogndal, I sat course home to Sunnmøre. It stopped raining when I got to Loen and I decided to hike up to Årheimsfjellet. This is one of the regular tops I do when I am commuting to and from Sogndal, once the snow has gone.
I thought about biking up to Oppheimssætra, but then I found that I wanted a round-trip hike, coming down via Raksætra.
When I got to the start of the forest path, I saw that the path had gotten a major upgrade.
I can understand what they’re doing here. The route to Raksætra has gotten mighty popular and the path is crumbling, leaving just a bunch of roots. It looked like a good job, but I also missed the old path.
I tried to keep a good pace, which was hard, as I had eaten a hot dog and 3 buns at Skei. It felt like the buns were moving their way up to my throat. Not that I was feeling sick or anything, but I got a choking feeling.
I was happy that it wasn’t raining anymore. I felt a few raindrops when I left the parking at Holme, but that was about it.
It was nice to arrive at the pass at 820m. Only ~200 vertical meters to go, but spread evenly across the 2km route to the top.
I went off-trail, hoping to get a good view towards Stryn, but realized I would have to at least get to the top before it made any sense in descending and find a viewpoint. I decided that it wasn’t that important and continued directly to the top instead.
The top was windy. I had been hiking in just a shirt, but now I had to put a wind jacket on.
I immediately continued to where I thought I would find the path to Raksætra, but I missed it with a small margin. Instead of going southeast, I went south and ended up in terrain where I had to apply caution while descending.
At this point, I had no clue where I was heading and had to resort to the GPS to get me back on track.
Finally, I reached Raksætra – and this scenery has probably been posted on Instagram more than once. I don’t know. I’m not on that platform. But I would guess I am right…
From Raksætra, I followed the path 500m before I joined my ascent route. All in all, a good hike and now the 1,5-hour drive home would be more enjoyable.
Trip statistics: 7,6km, 780 vertical meters, 2h:05m
Løkeberget (579m), May 19 2026
Tuesday: The first task after work was to mow the overgrown lawn. It doesn’t sound like a whole lot of work and the lawn isn’t big. But the grass bag is constantly filling up and must be emptied and there’s a lot of “moving about” on the quite bumpy lawn.
Once that was over and done with, I was tired and it was already past 6pm. I did not feel the need for a longer hike and so I settled for a short hike across Løkeberget on Hareidlandet, starting out from Løset (220m).
I was listening to an interesting podcast and just put one foot in front of the other…
The weather was OK although I could feel a couple of raindrops. Enough to put the hood on, keeping my headphones dry.
I was happy when I reached the top. Now, I could look forward to a hike downhill, followed by dinner.
Of course, I had to choose an off-trail route for my descent…
But that only made the hike more interesting. Additional views, new tracks for my GPS history map, and so on.
It was really nice to hike through the birch forest, although that was exposing me to ticks. Back at the car, I only found one small bugger – making its way up my pants.
I decided to go for chicken salad for dinner and clementines for dessert. It tasted very nice, but I was quite hungry afterwards and had to extend dinner with 3 slices of bread with brown cheese.
Trip statistics: 4,3km, 370 vertical meters, 1h:06m
Laupsnipa (562m), May 20 2026
Wednesday: I didn’t get off work until 6pm and then I decided to go for a short hike but still get my daily dose of 500 vertical meters. The choice fell on Laupsnipa. It’s 560 vertical meters straight up. My cup of tea…
I know this mountain quite well. This would be my 78th ascent. But I still haven’t gotten bored from it. Hopefully the below pictures will tell you why.
I felt tiny raindrops. Not enough to worry about my headphones though.
I’ve now switched my cell phone camera setting to Apple ProRaw. This means that I am dependent on LRC to work with them (unless GIMP supports it). Maybe I imagine things, but I do feel the pictures are of better quality now.
I made a mental note to take the same panorama picture with both settings, use the same LRC settings and compare.
From the summit, I continued towards Laupskeipen. The terrain above Skredestranda is quite dramatic!
Laupskeipen is a cool hump. I always enjoy visiting it.
This is probably an excellent place to take off with a hang glider. But I guess people won’t bother to carry it all the way up here.
I decided to do a round-trip hike and hiked off-trail down to lake Voldnesvatnet.
The tiny raindrops aside, it was a nice afternoon. But the bushwack below the lake resulted in multiple ticks. Fully body shower and clothes into the washer, to be on the safe side.
Trip statistics: 5,9km, 615 vertical meters, 1h:34m
Røddalshorn (563m), May 21 2026
Thursday: Off work 5pm and straight to Leikongeidet to hike across Røddalshorn. I didn’t feel a lot of inspiration, but I didn’t know that I virtually had no strengths. I don’t know why – maybe because of bad sleep for the past nights. In any case, each step came with a cost.
But, this route is only 400 vertical meters to the top and if I could avoid the rain in the distance, it would be a big bonus.
Reaching the high ridge, it was quite windy. It was unpleasant to be up there with just an ultra-thin jacket. But the wind came from the east, and my descent would soon be to the west. As such, I didn’t care.
On top, I only stopped for one picture before moving on a little and descending off-trail.
I hiked along lake Simavatnet and took the Sollia route back to my car at Leikongeidet. I can’t remember the last time my body had so little to give.
Trip statistics: 4,9km, 430 vertical meters, 1h:24m
Øyrahornet (517m), Skåla (184m), May 23 2026
Saturday: This was a horrible day, but nothing to mention in the wider perspective, considering the truly horrible things that people must endure daily.
But tension headache is headache, regardless. And it really knocks me out. It came creeping yesterday and adding the pouring rain, no hiking for me the day before. Not for the lack of trying. I drove around, hoping it would stop raining. After giving up, returning home, changing back to “civil” clothes, it stopped raining. But I wasn’t going back out.
The headache during the night was awful. I spent most of the night going back and forth between a chair (I cloud not lie down) and the wall I was doing neck massage against. In the early morning hours, I was exhausted and could get a couple of hours in bed.
Then followed a work session (I was on duty call) and breakfast. Late in the afternoon, I decided to get the daily walk over with. It was still raining and I was really not in shape for hiking.
But I drove to Tjørvåg to hike across Øyrahornet and Skåla – a round that would earn me almost 600 vertical meters, without exposing me to the weather and wind at 5-600 meters elevation.
I put on yesterday’s National Rap Show and put one foot in front of the other. I didn’t stop for any pictures until I reached the top of Øyrahornet.
The rock was slippery and all of a sudden, my left shoe lost it grip. My right foot stayed put and I was going into the splits. Which is not something I should do at my age. Fortunately, a reflex move prevented me from having another muscle injury, but it didn’t prevent a fall.
There was no energy in the body, but it was still nice to be hiking again – even if it was raining.
I crossed the Øyraelvi and followed the gravel road up to Sandvikskaret.
A little bit later, I was on top of Skåla.
I followed a vague, overgrown path down to Raftesetvegen and followed it back to Tjørvåg.
This would be my last hike back home for some time, as I was heading for northern Norway (to help my mom) the next day.
Trip statistics: 6,2km, 595 vertical meters, 1h:46m
Gullsiberget (537m), Fjæremsåsen (268m), Liaåsen (429m), May 24 2026
Sunday: These hikes are featured on a separate post…
