A fun route and a new top!
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 03.06.26 | Skavdalstinden / Storfjellet | 477m | 48m | Brønnøy, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 03.06.26 | Kråkneshesten | 558m | 145m | Brønnøy, Norway | WCP | MAP |
Wednesday: Still in Brønnøysund, and after work I decided to hike Skavdalstinden (aka Storfjellet), where I hadn’t been before.
To get there via trails or open terrain, one has to hike across Kråkneshesten. But I had noticed a potential route from Rodal, and today I wanted to try it out.
On the map, my route would be passing near “Hyllsnagtinden”. I have no idea what that name means.
I parked the car at Sandmo. I talked to a couple of locals and one of them said that people had gone up the route I was thinking about. But that was all the intel I got. I took my bike and hoped that I could cover some of the tractor road on the bike. And I did, but it wasn’t any fun.
The timber harvesting area was bad. I should have just gone off-trail in the forest. I pointed my finger towards the couloir I expected to be following and headed towards the forest.
The forest part was the worst part of the entire route! Just very tedious.
When I got to the couloir, I was in doubt whether I should scramble up the ridge or follow the couloir. The ridge was a bit steep and so I settled for the couloir.
The couloir was easy enough. Basically, a big boulder field with slippery moss on top of unstable rocks.
But as long as I was going upwards, the moss wasn’t a problem.
When the couloir joined the ridge to my left, I was in a birch forest jungle and had to mentally focus on the terrain, in case I would be coming down this way. I am always taking into account that my cell phone might not have coverage when I need it the most and try to understand the terrain the best I can.
It was nice to get out of the forest and into open terrain.
I could see my car …
The view towards Brønnøysund was also nice…
Now, I looked forward to get to Skavdalstinden and claim a new top – although it didn’t have a prominence of 100m. The norgeskart.no height is 479m and the saddle towards Kråkneshesten is 429m, which should give a clean prominence of 50m. But if you zoom in on the map, the height is 477,6m – aka 477m. Some would round this up to 478m, but the top isn’t 478m!
So, it’s basically a hump. But it’s a hump I hadn’t been to yet.
I also looked closely at Trælneshatten. One of the locals I talked to, told me he normally hikes Trælneshatten from Rodal. I could clearly see potential routes up to the ridge between Trælneshatten and Storfjellet.
Skavdalstinden (Storfjellet) is not found on the “Fjelltrimmen” app, basically because the area next to the top is too exposed.
Now that Skavdalstinden was “in the bag”, I continued towards Kråkneshesten. I did the Kråkneshesten – Grønlihalsen – Ryptinden loop in 2007, but didn’t remember a single thing from that hike.
The terrain was easy enough…
I had a good view towards Lysingen – but unless I get there this Friday afternoon, it will have to wait until later. I also visited that top in 2007, but can’t remember anything from that hike, either.
Approaching Kråkneshesten, I didn’t think that I would have to pay attention to the terrain…
… but as I got closer, it was clear that I would have to think about how to get to the top.
The ascent was easy, and soon I could look back on Storfjellet. It was clear that I would be returning there, but the descent route to Rodal wasn’t clear yet.
It was hot and windy at the same time. A strange combination, really.
I enjoyed the views a lot.
I could see all the way to Lovund – 105km to the north!
I was NOT tempted to also include Grønlihalsen and Ryptinden on this hike.
I took a few more pics and returned to Storfjellet.
Back on Skavdalstinden, I took a few more pictures of the “abyss”
Now it was time to decide on the descent route. I had hoped to hike down the south ridge to Rodalsskardet but sent my friend Kjell Iver a text message – asking if he knew the route. He had gone up that way but said it was a bit hairy. So, I decided to return the way I came.
Descending my ascent route was easy enough. The moss was slippery and so I stayed closer to the wall – where the was more grass. It was nice to get back to the bike, and I had a feeling that I had ticks all over my body. But on second thought – ticks need blood to survive (don’t they?), and I couldn’t imagine any living creature who wants to be in this type of terrain. And sure enough, I didn’t find any ticks either…
Trip statistics: 6,8km on foot, 2km on bike, 755 vertical meters, 3h:05m
