Failed the ridge, but got past…
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 20.07.26 | Hyningane | 1018m | 368m | Ørsta, Norway | WCP | MAP |
Monday: The weather was still nice, so I decided to return to the Ørsta/Volda region after work, for the 6th day in a row. The “mission” today was to see if I could get from Hyningane to Langheida in Liadalen, either via the ridge (which I highly doubted) or via the basin below the ridge.
I started out from the upper parking in Liadalen (toll road, NOK 20, – per July 2026), crossed the river and started hiking off-trail along the river. It wasn’t too bad, but I looked forward to getting out of the forest.
Eventually, I was out of the forest and had the ridge in clear view. The ridge didn’t look too difficult, but I knew it was quite rough.
The terrain in the Svenskedalen valley (weird name – “Sweden valley”) was not difficult, but tedious. But I enjoyed good music and progress was overall OK.
I was pretty sure I could get up to the Langheida ridge, albeit not via the ridge from Hyningane. It didn’t seem very hard, but I wouldn’t really know until I was up there.
But first on the agenda was to get to the top of Hyningane.
A clarification of the names on the map vs the names on Peakbook.org is needed:
- Point 1018m. Called “Stabben” on Norgeskart.no (most likely wrong) and “Hyningane” on Peakbook.org
- Point 925m. Called “Hyrningane” on Norgeskart.no and “Messingeheida” on Peakbook.org
- “Stabben” (no height given on Norgeskart.no) southeast of point 1018 is the actual “Stabben”
I have chosen to use the names from Peakbook.org. Hyrningane vs Hyningane is most likely Bokmål (the more widely used written standard of Norwegian) vs local dialect.
The smaller neighbour Messingeheida (point 925m) is very cool. I’ve been up there once, but only via the northeast ridge.
1h:11m after leaving the car, I reached the top of Hyningane/ Point 1018m.
There was no point checking out the ridge towards Langheida. I had done that in the past and found that to be a ridge I didn’t want to hike. But what did it look like from the opposite side?
So, I just stopped for pictures, before leaving the top.
Stabben is a cool hump. I might not have posted trip reports from my visits there…
While heading down into the basin, I looked at the ridge I would be following down from Langheida, provided I could get across. It didn’t look difficult at all.
From a distance, I didn’t feel attracted to this ridge unless I was in a rope.
My route up to Langheida was clear already from before the hike. On my last visit here, this was exactly the route I had planned to look at.
But how would it look like, when I was up there? It got steeper and steeper.
The route was easy enough though, and soon I could look back on the ridge.
The ridge didn’t look too complicated, but this was certainly not something I would try do all by myself, and not without a rope.
I went up to the highest point (996m) on the Langheida side, for a better view of the ridge. Now, I really wanted to climb it. Maybe I can get a buddy along one sunny day…
Then, another series of pictures before I began my descent via Langheida (984m) …
I wasn’t all done with the vertical meters yet. Another “brutal” 20 meters were awaiting…
It seemed like I would return to a foggy Gurskøya island…
But I wanted to stay in the present, and enjoy my descent along the ridge above Svenskedalen…
Just one final panorama…
… and one final glance up the mountain.
To the southwest, Liadalsnipa came out of its hiding and the normal route looked scary like always. I’ve been there 11 times and I’ve done the traverse, but this mountain has always scared me. As such, it’s time to go back just to face the “horror” and overcome it once more…
At around 500m elevation, it suddenly got steep. Very steep. Crap, I was standing on top of a cliff that didn’t seem easy to negotiate.
An off-trail traverse over to the Nakkevatnet – Halse route would be around 1km, and I really wanted to get down *now*. I started scouting for a way down and found one. It wasn’t difficult but I had to be very careful. I was so happy when I could look back on it!
I decided to cross the river (or rather – creeks) to get back my ascent route and familiar terrain with no surprises.
Another great afternoon in the Ørsta mountains!
Trip statistics: 6,1km, 900 vertical meters, 2h:50m