Skulgamtinden

Datum:

30.08.2012

Tourcharakter:

Bergtour

Tourlänge:

6:30h

© Hannah Vickers Third official day of summer - and possibly the final one of the year for Tromsø! Seemed like too good an opportunity to miss another potentially great day of hiking, so I emailed the admin staff and told them I was taking it as a holiday. Destination: Ringvassøya. Peak: Skulgamtinden. Why? Well, firstly, I can see Ringvassøya from my bedroom window every time I pull back the blinds, and moreover, I see Skulgamtinden from my apartment as well. I've seen it through last autumn, winter, the spring and the summer. Every hour of the day it sits proudly above the fjord, and I am quite ashamed to say that even having lived in Tromsø for nearly a year now I still have not paid a visit to Ringvassøya, even though it is only a short drive away. So today I set out to achieve two goals - to visit >>>

Husfjellet

Datum:

19.08.2012

Tourcharakter:

Spaziergang

Tourlänge:

3:00h

© Hannah Vickers After a not-so-good night sleep at Mefjord Brygge due to some unexpected music festivities in the early morning, my mum was not feeling in such a good mood for another hike. It was pretty unfortunate because the morning was bright and the skies were blue. It was a perfect sunny day for getting the amazing views that I'd hoped we'd get on the hike to Keipen the previous day. Since we also needed to get the 1700 ferry from Botnhamn it also meant that there was not a lot of time to play with....so we planned to drive to Skaland, where my mum would take things easy and stroll along the beach and have a look around Berg village, and I would take a quick hike up to Husfjellet and meet her again for lunch. That way both of us would be happy! It was a gorgeous drive from Mefjordvaer, and we passed >>>

Keipen

Datum:

18.08.2012

Tourcharakter:

Bergtour

Tourlänge:

6:30h

© Hannah Vickers This was one trip I had had high hopes for. My mum was visiting me for a few days, and one of the things I really wanted for her to see the absolutely amazing views over Mefjord. Keipen seemed like quite a nice choice of mountain to see it because it is one of the Lenvik Ti på Topp, and I simply assumed that it would not be too difficult a walk to do. Unfortunately, as we drove over from Tromso it was obvious that there was a lot of low cloud to budge before these really fantastic views could be seen from the mountain! It was about midday when we arrived at Botnhamn, and we thought that we'd wait for a little longer before starting the hike because the weather forecast had promised more sun later in the day. Most of the route descriptions I'd found for Keipen recommend starting from the entrance >>>

Synnøvjordtinden

Datum:

15.08.2012

Tourcharakter:

Bergtour

© Hannah Vickers I took this peak as an afternoon trip, with the hope that the path which I'd seen marked on the map also existed on the ground as well! It was also the second day of low-level fog which had pretty much engulfed the whole of Tromsøya, but higher up above about 300m, it was bright and clear. So, a mountain hike seemed like the perfect way to escape the dull and cool fog below and get some warm sunshine up high. Synnøvjordtinden is also located at the western end of Kattfjord, almost directly opposite Vasstinden across Nordfjorden, and I was keen to see Vasstinden from a different perspective, simply because I had such good memories of the evning trip I'd taken there a few weeks earlier. Anyway, quite helpfully as I was driving along the road through Synnøvjorda I noticed a red arrow at the >>>

Storstolpan

Datum:

07.08.2012