On my way to Brønnøysund
| 29.08.26 | Halsakrona | 364m | 101m | Heim, Norway | – | MAP |
| 29.08.26 | Hennafjellet | 633m | 155m | Heim, Norway | – | MAP |
| 29.08.26 | Våttåsen | 335m | 114m | Trondheim, Norway | – | MAP |
| 29.08.26 | Svartkamberget | 539m | 130m | Stjørdal, Norway | – | MAP |
Halsakrona (364m), Aug 29 2026
Saturday: It was time for another trip to Brønnøysund to give mom a hand with garden work. I left Gurskøya 8am and 3 ferries later, I had arrived at Halsa. It was time for the first hike of the day. The target was Halsakrona. I assumed it would be an easy forest walk.
I found the trailhead and talked to a local. He said it was a lovely hike and that the route was marked all the way up.
I didn’t see a marked route on the map, but I had a hunch about where it ought to be.
Then the road forked and a “Stikk Ut!” sign put me off balance. What else than Halsakrona could be a goal for hikers in this forest? Against my own instincts, I turned right, although this was not the direction I planned on going.
After a little while (in the wrong direction) I saw two women approaching me. I was so glad. The locals would surely give me the information I needed. But they were Ukrainian. They couldn’t speak a word Norwegian or English. Sign language didn’t help either…
When I noticed an overgrown tractor road, I decided to follow it. At least, I would be heading *upwards*…
Higher up, I spooked a deer and found blue paint on a tree. But I didn’t see any path…
I deliberately aimed for the part of the forest where the ground would be OK to walk on, and here I found some kind of path, but no paint.
Eventually, I stopped looking for a path and just sat course for the top.
My shoes and hiking pants were already soaking wet. Good thing I had extras in the car…
I found the high point, and it will be forgotten two days later…
For descent, I decided to try the route I had planned to go up. Indeed, I found both paint and a visible path and things were looking up…
But this path also vanished into thin air, and I just aimed for the nearest tractor road.
Further down, the road forked again. If I turned right, I could continue towards Knoken (374m) and get yet another P100 top. But I was a bit fed up with this forest by now and returned to my car.
Halsakrona – “The Halsa crown” could refer to the tops surrounding the upper meadow. Like, tops forming a crown shape. And, the Stikk UT! route goes to Liautgarden (see link) and has nothing to do with Halsakrona.
Trip statistics: 4,7km, 295 vertical meters, 1h:18m
Hennafjellet (633m), Aug 29 2026
Saturday: Hennafjellet isn’t too far away from Halsakrona and I decided to go there. Looking at the map, it seemed like there would be a well-worn path all the way up. On my way down from Halsakrona, I met a couple out walking and I mentioned Hennafjellet as my next stop. They said, “then you have to take the old road”. As there is a new road now, that was good advice and saved me from wasting time, figuring it all out.
At Henna, I took the Hendadalsvegen toll road (NOK 50, – per Aug 26) and followed it all the way to Hennasætra (240m).
At Hennasætra, there was plenty of parking space and also a signpost. Even with 400 vertical meters, this would be an easier hike than Halsakrona. At least mentally…
But alas, the lower forest was wet and muddy. Good thing I didn’t change my shoes after the Halsakrona hike.
Up in the birch forest, the path was nice. Steep and dry.
When I got to the Hennafjellet – Tindan fork, I considered if I should visit both tops. I decided to think about it while visiting Hennafjellet…
On my way up, I heard lots of laughter and a few minutes later, two joyful women passed me. It was nice with a break from the solemnity after the passing of King Harald V.
I didn’t go directly up to the high point. I went over to a lower top for some panoramas.
Seeing Tustna and Stabblandet again brought back memories from the trip I did with my friend Petter, back in 2006.
Then, a few 100mm shots…
… before heading up to the high point.
This was my new P100 top #50 in 2026. My goal used to be 100 new P100 tops per year, but during Covid, this became impossible. After that, I lost the drive to drive far away just to find a new top. After 2020, my annual goal has been 50 and that goal was reached today!
I decided to leave Tindan for another day. Maybe I would do one more hike today, but now I would set course for Stav Hotel (north of Trondheim) where I would spend the night.
I caught up with the joyful women just before Hennasætra. I heard their laughter from far away. Apparently, they laughed every time they slipped and almost fell – or fell. Good attitude!
Trip statistics: 4,1km, 415 vertical meters, 1h:17m
Våttåsen (335m), Aug 29 2026
Saturday: After hiking Hennafjellet, I continued towards Trondheim. Arriving at Stav before 5:30pm was a little bit too early so I stopped the car and checked Peakbook.org for any tops near Trondheim I might have overlooked.
Våttåsen came up as a candidate and I thought – “Nah! Definitely been there, but why didn’t I register it?” But it turned out that I had been to Våttåberget and Våttån, but not Våttåsen. Vått the f…?
I drove in the direction of Klæbu and parked at the Skjøla parking lot. This was because I found a track on Peakbook that I thought was a well-worn path.
It didn’t start out so promising. The path began behind a house…
… and it was overgrown…
But I didn’t have any other option than to follow the GPS track and hope it would lead me to a better path. Shortly after, I found a seemingly better path.
This path was also overgrown…
… and not maintained for a while…
Eventually, I was up on a meadow and now my 2nd pair of shoes got wet.
I took my eyes off the GPS track for a second and sat course for the wrong top.
Adjusting my course meant nice scenery and even more wet shoes…
Finally, I found a path and followed it up a nice forest.
The path did not cross the high point and so I had to go looking for it. It was not marked and definitely not memorable…
This definitely concluded the hiking today. Now, I looked forward to a hotel room.
I sat a direct course back to the overgrown path and avoided the wet parts.
Then I drove non-stop to Stav Hotel. After checking in, my mom called – saying she had chest pain and that she was on her way in an Ambulance boat to Sandnessjøen. Not great news…
She called me later in the evening and told me they were still running tests and that she would not come home today.
Trip statistics: 2,8km, 140 vertical meters, 0h:43m
Svartkamberget (539m), Aug 30 2026
Sunday: I enjoyed breakfast at Stav Hotel (north of Trondheim) and departed 9am. The weather was utterly miserable. Should I just drive straight up to Brønnøysund?
But an entire Sunday without any activity? That wasn’t typical me and I started checking candidate tops for a rainy day. I then discovered Svartkamberget – a bit southeast of Forbordsfjellet.
I remembered Forbordsfjellet from a hike Anne and I did back in 2010. A boring walk up the mountain road, but good views!
It seemed that I could drive pretty far on the toll road (NOK 50, – per Aug 2026) and for the remaining 1,7km to Svartkamhytta, it was clear that it made good sense to take the bicycle.
The upside was that it wasn’t raining a whole lot. It was bearable.
Eventually, I got to Svartkamhytta. It seemed like a tourist hut of some kind, but I decided to check it out after having visited the top.
Then I got going on foot…
I was wearing the wet hiking pants and shoes from the day before and I didn’t care if I got even wetter. The hike was going OK though…
I soon got the mountain in view, but the path curves around it and goes up on the south side.
When I reached lake Sandtjønna, it struck me that this area has much more trails and paths than I was aware of. I expected that when I returned to my car, mine would not be the only one there…
And then I was up! New P100 top #52 in 2026. Now that I had reached the annual goal of 50 new tops, I was OK calling it a day.
I was able to get back to the bike without falling. The terrain was very slippery, and my soles were completely worn down.
Back at Svartkamhytta, I met a couple and I had a long and nice talk with the guy. They were serving coffee (and probably something to eat) today and hoped there would be guests.
The guy worked in IT, and his profession was close to mine. He was originally from Vesterålen and so we talked a lot about the mountains up there. Especially “Dronningruta“…
Then came the first hikers. I said farewell and returned to the car.
The forest road was full of holes. It feels wrong to pay for driving on such roads…
It was nice to get back on the main road and continue my journey to Brønnøysund…
Trip statistics: 2,5km, 280 vertical meters, 1h:43m
