Frønningen “expedition”
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 03.07.26 | Middagsnosi | 1180m | 103m | Aurland/Lærdal, Norway | – | MAP |
| 03.07.26 | Daurmålsnosi | 1183m | 126m | Aurland, Norway | – | MAP |
| 03.07.26 | Høgehaug | 519m | 117m | Lærdal, Norway | – | MAP |
Friday: The day before going to Shetland, Anne had a surprise for me. She suggested that we should take the ferry to Frønningen and hike the high tops (Middagsnosi and Daurmålsnosi) there. I had never been to Frønningen and looked so much forward to get there one day!
The ferry left 8:40am and I couldn’t wait to get going!
The ferry takes approx. 50 minutes to get there, and we met a couple of doctors from Årdal and had a nice chat with them. The obvious rule when meeting a doctor, is not to immediately spill your heart out about physical issues…
Give it some time 😉
Eventually, we reached Frønningen – on time.
I knew we had some uphill biking ahead of us, but I hadn’t gotten into the details. Which was good, because if I had known I would be biking 1000m uphill I might have suggested that we took the car instead.
Anne had her E-bike and wasn’t all that worried about the never-ending road.
Man, it was a struggle. 17,4km and 1000 vertical meters later, we arrived at the end of the road. I wasn’t all toast yet, but I could feel the smell coming… Then we headed upwards…
…into the fog.
It was nice to get a start along a mountain trail though.
We followed the trail until we reached a small lake, then we headed up the ridge. Off-trail and into more fog.
I took this as a good opportunity to practice hiking in fog, pretending we didn’t have any cell phones with maps. Which is futile anyway. You don’t stand a chance against fog, but it is possible to minimize the potential navigational disaster.
But the fog came and went, which wasn’t all that bad. It was nice to get views also. In fact, we hoped the fog would completely go away.
In not too long, we reached the top of Middagsnosi.
We actually got some views.
But the fog didn’t lift. It only wished us welcome before closing in on us again.
We moved on towards Daurmålsnosi. Long before watches and smartphones, these mountains told the time. Daurmålsnosi marked the hour for the morning meal, while Middagsnosi signalled noon. Their names are reminders of a time when the sun and the mountains were the village clock.
The fog still came and went. Teasing us.
Up to our right was the Bleia – Grånosi massif. Well hidden in the fog.
The route-finding would have been harder in white-out conditions. Today, we didn’t struggle much to find a good route. But the 1114m top before Daurmålsnosi required us to find a safe route down.
A little bit later, we were on top of Daurmålsnosi.
I was happy. I didn’t expect to get two new P100 tops in Indre Sogn this summer.
We headed back to the bikes. After passing Middagsnosi, my internal compass didn’t work any more and I had to use the GPS map to get us back on track.
As we had a lot of time before the 6:25pm ferry, we decided to hike one more P100 top – Høgehaug.
Then we biked 12,1km (mostly downhill) to the place where we had agreed to hike Høgehaug from. On the map, it seemed that we could follow a tractor road.
It was an old tractor road, and it was nice to see a bit of sunshine, but we didn’t expect to find an excavator in the forest!
Someone left this here to die and probably didn’t think no one would ever find out!
We didn’t let the old rusty machinery get to us and we moved on.
We left the tractor road and sat course for the top.
And then we were up!
I loved this green forest, and so did Anne. It felt old and untouched, the excavator aside…
We returned to our bikes and biked 5,5km back to the ferry pier. The weather was just gorgeous now!
We got some views too!
Back at the pier, it was definitely time for lunch!
I still had my 3 boiled eggs and they tasted heavenly!
Then, a cruise ship sailed by.
And finally – our ferry came to pick us up. We had another chat with one of the doctors and this time the discussion was about health issues – more precisely – the effects of tick bites!
Thanks Anne, for suggesting this trip. It was bloody hard work, but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world!
Trip statistics: 11,9km on foot, 35km on bike, 1830 vertical meters, 7h:43m
