More fun stuff in Sogn og Fjordane…
| 20.07.26 | Hyningane | 1018m | 368m | Ørsta, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 21.07.26 | Gjøna | 531m | 163m | Sande, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 22.07.26 | Haugabreen | 914m | – | Sunnfjord, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 23.07.26 | Stedjeåsen | 624m | 121m | Sogndal, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 24.07.26 | Amlaholten + Jostedalen zipline | 508m | 265m | Sogndal, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 25.07.26 | Cider tasting, Fimreite + Røvhaugane | 160m | 0m | Sogndal, Norway | WCP | MAP |
| 26.07.26 | Storehaugfjellet | 1173m | 990m | Sogndal, Norway | WCP | MAP |
Hyningane (1018m), Jul 20 2026
Monday: This hike is featured on a separate post…
Gjøna (531m), Jul 21 2026
Tuesday: It was raining throughout my working day and motivation for going hiking was low. Very low. But in the end, I managed to pull myself across the doorstep and do a hike up and down Gjøna.
If only I could get to the trailhead…
I like this mountain because it’s 521m straight up from the road and it gives me my daily 500 vertical meters and then some.
The hike was uneventful. It didn’t rain a whole lot but there was fog on the mountain. No need to linger around. Just take a picture and get back down.
It was nice to get below the fog, and it was extra nice to have reached my daily goal even if the motivation was extra hard to find today.
Trip statistics: 3,2km, 520 vertical meters, 1h:05m
Haugabreen glacier arm, Jul 22 2026
Wednesday: This hike is featured on a separate post…
Stedjeåsen (624m), Jul 23 2026
Thursday: I was in Sogndal and our friends Eva, Bjørn, Elisabeth and Lune was visiting us. The day before, we had a very nice hike to Haugabreen.
I was stuck with work, and so Anne, Eva, Bjørn and Elisabeth went on a bicycle trip to Kyndilstjørni to enjoy a nice view towards the fjords Lustrafjorden and Årdalsfjorden.
In my (extended) lunchbreak, I had the opportunity to take Lune on a hike up to Stedjeåsen. She was dragging me like I was an appendix. I didn’t tolerate that and had to establish the chain of command.
That went OK for a little while until a chick (not knowing the specie) decided to go hiking ahead of us. Lune was pulling like crazy.
When the bird finally got off the trail, we ran into sheep which definitely caught Lune’s attention. Once I got her past the sheep, she was tired and had to rest. I didn’t think about bringing any water. This was my first walk with this 15-month dog, and I assumed she would hike like Karma used to do.
She was breathing so heavily that I considered turning around. But, after some rest she continued and the walk through the upper forest went OK.
We stopped by the viewpoint, and Lune had not learned the concept of “posing”. But after working on it, I got her to look my way.
At the Stedjeåsen mailbox, I didn’t see any point in dragging her (off-trail) to the high point. We had been to 620m, just 4m shy of the high point and in my book, this was good enough.
As Lune had no experience from hiking mountains (or high forest tops), I was happy that she made it through.
We returned the way we came and except for the few “hurdles” mentioned, the hike went overall OK.
In the afternoon, in downtown Sogndal, Anne stumbled upon more family members from eastern Norway and invited them up to meet the others. Now Anne had cousins from both sides of the family in her garden.
In the evening, we enjoyed a nice barbecue…
Trip statistics: 6,3km, 590 vertical meters, 1h:52m
Amlaholten (508m), Jul 24 2026 (+ Jostedalen zipline)
Friday: Another working day for me, but Anne and our visiting friends Eva, Bjørn and Elisabeth would be going to Jostedalen and have fun with the zipline.
Lune seemed to relax in my company and after noon, I had the opportunity to take her on a walk. I decided to drive to Festingdalen to hike Amlaholten.
I normally would drive to Amlatunnelen and turn left just before the tunnel, but today I chose to drive via Kaupanger. That was a very good decision! More about that later…
Lune seemed happy to be outdoors and wasn’t pulling as much as the day before.
I had considered hiking all the way from Amlabukti, but that would sort of mean up and down the same way. I wanted a round trip and decided to start from the lowest of the tractor roads.
Lune seemed to enjoy this forest and was got a snack on top, as reward for good effort.
On the messenger group, pictures started coming in from Jostedalen…
Lune and I stopped by one of the few viewpoints this forest has to offer.
Then we went off-trail so that Lune got used to the noise from when you step on a rotten, dry branch. Lune is quite jumpy and got scared by these sounds on Stedjeåsen. After a little while, the sound didn’t scare her anymore, which was the man goal.
More pictures came in from Jostedalen
Eventually, Lune and I returned to the car.
Now I decided to return to the main road via the Amla tunnel. When I got there, I saw a massive line of cars – stretching almost all the way to Kaupanger! I’ve never seen a queue this long in this area. They were all waiting for the ferry. If I had chosen to drive this road on our way to Amlaholten, we would have been stuck for hours…
There was no end to the pictures coming in from Jostedalen…
In the evening, Anne “forced” us to play The mind. After a few rounds, we gave up. I found the game quite meaningless. So, we switched to Liar’s Dice. That game never disappoints!
Trip statistics: 5,1km, 365 vertical meters, 1h:34m
Cider tasting @ Fimreite + Røvhaugane
Saturday: This hike is featured on a separate post…
Storehaugfjellet (1173m), Jul 26 2026
Sunday: Our friends Eva, Bjørn and Elisabeth (and the dog Lune) went back to eastern Norway after breakfast this Sunday morning. It felt a bit strange now that Anne and I were alone in the house, which had been filled so much energy for the past 4 days…
The weather wasn’t the best, but we agreed to do a bicycle trip up to Storehaugfjellet. We packed our rain gear and hoped that we wouldn’t have to use it.
The part to the Lingesete fork is easy enough, but the rest of the trip is hard. I’ve never been able to bike all the way to the top. Right now, I might have had the stamina, but my back tyre was all worn out, and I couldn’t get the grip I would need to get up the hardest parts.
But Anne – on her E-bike – stood a good chance of biking all the way up 😉
The weather was OK in the beginning, but it started to rain, and the rain gear had to come on. It didn’t make the biking any easier.
Eventually, we reached the top.
It was such a delight! Only downhill from here…
It was a big bonus that it was clearing up a little. The fog had been quite thick just a few minutes earlier.
After a short stay, we headed back down.
Almost 6km of downhill was awaiting. On our way down, we passed a woman coming up on an electrical terrain bike. I spoke to her spouse at the trailhead, and he told me that she would be biking down on the northeast side. That’s a route I’ve found to be too rough for me and one certainly needs full suspension there. I’ve only got a “hardtail” on my bike.
Trip statistics: 11,7km on bike, 680 vertical meters, 1h:42m
