Iungsdalshytta, day 5
| Date | Trip |
| 26.06.26 | To Iungsdalshytta |
| 27.06.26 | Stolsbergi, Skorpa |
| 28.06.26 | Fødalsbrea, Toviknuten, Djupsnuten |
| 29.06.26 | Halldalsnuten, Iungsdalsnuten |
| 30.06.26 | Reineskarvet |
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 30.06.26 | Reineskarvet | 1789m | 439m | Ål, Norway | – | MAP |
Tuesday: This morning, we checked out of Iungsdalshytta, after a few wonderful days and wonderful dinners.
The normal thing to do would be to hike the 4km back to Toviki, where we had our car. But my backpack was quite heavy and as we had decided to hike Reineskarvet, we decided to pay for a boat ride.
Jarle drove us and I could see that Anne and him had a lot to talk about.
At Toviki, they were still busy with sending sheep to the mountains.
From Toviki, we drove to Vallo, where we parked.
We followed a path and the start of the hike was quite easy.
We had good views early on:
We could see Iungsdashytta, which we just had left.
The path was easy to follow, but we looked forward to getting onto the mountain…
Eventually, we went off-trail.
Blåbergi 1802m (not the Hemsedal mountain) ended up on my to-do list…
We aimed for what we thought was point 1646m.
It wasn’t. It was just a nameless top with 1580m as the highest contour.
Anne decided to take a break…
… while I took some panorama pictures for stitching…
Next up was the mountain proper…
This was rocky terrain. Moon landscape! We would definitely suggest a ski-trip here…
There were a few snow fields left…
… but for the main part – just rock!
Eventually, we parted. I wanted to hike all the high points on the massif (in case heights were revised) while Anne was just interested in the high point.
When I got on the summit plateau, the distances were far greater than I had anticipated.
I went over to point 1788m, before moving on towards 1789m (elevations from Peakbook.org)
Then Anne seemed to understand what my project was all about and sat course for point 1789m, after trying to call me. Too bad I had turned off the ring tone. But at least, I could see her waving from a distance.
So, we both visited point 1789m…
… and we got a good view towards Skogshorn (Hemsedal)
We also noticed some distinct circles of soil and rocks.
These landforms are known as patterned ground, specifically sorted stone circles and sorted polygons. They are periglacial features formed by repeated freeze-thaw cycles and frost heaving in cold climates.”
The Reineskarvet summit plateau can be described as a “sea of rocks”
Eventually, we reached the high point.
The high point is 1791m on the maps, but LIDAR measurements suggest that the high point is 1789m. With a 2m deviation, I felt good about the decision about visiting all the potential high points.
As such, we also had to visit the 1788m point (ref. Peakbook.org) and 320m south of the high point.
Whatever is the high point on Reineskarvet, we had now visited them all!
Then it was time for the descent. We had a long way down – on rocks.
But in-between the rocks: Issoleie / Glacier buttercup / Ranunculus glacialis!
Despite all the rock, we enjoyed this hike from beginning to end.
On our way back to Sogndal, we discovered the road from Vatsfjorden to Hemsedal. None of us knew about this road, and we really enjoyed it.
This concluded our stay at Iungsdalshytta. We still had 1,5 weeks left of our vacation. What was next? Maybe Shetland? At least, we began the planning…
Trip statistics: 12,5km, 750 vertical meters, 4h:49m
