Langdale circuit

Datum:

07.04.2012

Tourcharakter:

Bergtour

A chilled out day walk with a group of walkers I met in Langdale. We headed up toward Red tarn below Pike of Blisco first, then up the nice gentle slopes to Long Top. From there you get nice views over the Langdale valley, and then a little bit of excitement to do the Bad Step to get to the second top on Crinkle Crags. More undulating walking follows before reaching Three Tarns, from where we took a quick dash to the top of Bowfell and then back down the Band to return to Great Langdale. A nice day, but not all that challenging in terms of strenuousness. Still, it was a pleasant weather and good company too.

Buren

Datum:

03.04.2012

Tourcharakter:

Wanderung

Tourlänge:

3:30h

Entfernung:

7,0km

© Hannah Vickers This was what I'd generally regard as a semi-spontaneous trip, because it was planned only the day before we went. There was a cloudless sky, lots of sunshine and plenty of fresh air - just what we needed after a day in the office! With only -3 or -4 at the bottom of the mountain by Kaldfjord, conditions seemed perfect for a hike. My friend Lene had not been out on a mountain since our last hike together to Stor Kjølen, and that was in the previous autumn so she was equally thrilled to be getting out once more in a different part of Tromsø. Neither of us had much of a plan for route-finding, but we figured that since this was quite a popular choice of skiing destination, there should be some pretty obvious tracks we could follow all the way up. And that's what we did. It was almost too easy, >>>

Trollsteinen

Datum:

24.03.2012

Tourcharakter:

Wanderung

Tourlänge:

4:00h

© Hannah Vickers This was to be my first ever ski trip on fjellski! The lovely Kine Halse who was spending a few months at UNIS had very fortunately been able to borrow some telemark utstyr from a friend, which meant she offered to lend me her skis to use for a trip. More luckily was that her boots actually fitted me even though they were 2 sizes smaller than my usual boots! So on a crisp and sunny saturday morning, we drove up to Nybyen and parked up just at the end of the last barracks. We met here with one of Kine's friends, Karoline Kirsch and she joined us for the trip to Trollsteinen. It was a little windy here, as it always is, and I changed from my thin down jacket to my full-on Rab Summit down jacket. It was -12 in the valley, but felt so much colder with the wind chill, coupled with the fact I'd done >>>

Resurrection (III,V)

Datum:

29.01.2012

Tourcharakter:

Alpinklettern

Tourlänge:

10:00h

© Hannah Vickers We woke up to a clear sky in Strathcarron and with an early start we left the cottage at 7am and drove north to the Fannaichs, a nice little bundle of munros north of Torridon/south of Ullapool. It wasn't all that cold outside, but after disembarking from the van it felt very chilly with the wind blowing once again. We began the walk-in from somewhere on the A835 and headed straight out in a more or less southwesterly direction towards the coire, passing Loch a' Mhadaidh on the way. It was roughly 7 or 8 km just to reach the foot of the climb, and with all our climbing gear weighing down the rucksacks, it made for quite a lengthy day out ahead of us (and hence the early start)! Sadly too, by the time we reached it, we'd been abandoned by the sun and it was windy enough to have both Debbie and >>>

Right End Buttress (III)

Datum:

28.01.2012

Tourcharakter:

Mixed-Klettern

© Hannah Vickers We (Debbie Spencer and myself) climbed a mixed route called Right End Buttress on Fuar Tholl with Martin Moran during a weekend of instructed climbing.It wasn't a particularly dry day and for the most of it we were in low cloud and damp air; the walk up from the valley and into the coire itself was a bit wet underfoot, and very mild. But it wasn't properly raining, which was a positive thing! We climbed as two teams of 3, with Ewen leading the guys; it was a beautiful route with some elegant moves and I thoroughly enjoyed the problems. Overall I think it added up to 4 pitches (?) in length, the hardest of which were contained within pitches 1 and 2. There are opportunities for harder variations of the route (which we of course found ourselves climbing since it was Martin leading!) The summit >>>

Hatten

Datum:

14.01.2012

Blåtinden (den Sovende Soldat)

Datum:

24.09.2011

A stable spell of weather during the week that my sister was visiting meant that we really had to get out onto another mountain and make the most of the beautiful sunshine and cloudless skies. Took the 45 minute drive down through Lavangsdalen to Skogvoll and parked up just close to the start of the footpath. Brilliant views out over Balsfjord all the way up through the forest and out onto the grass. Quite a lot of other hikers out on this nice day. Got stunning views out to the Lyngen Alps after getting onto the upper section of the mountain. Quite steep in places but no scrambling was needed, which was good because my sister didn't like too much exposure! Path was easy to follow, and the view to Andersdaltinden, Svartnestinden and Sultindan were very impressive too. Had a spot of lunch at >>>

Tromsdalstinden

Datum:

22.09.2011

My sister was visiting me from the UK during this week, so I thought Tromsdalstinden would be a nice mountain hike to introduce her to the wonderful landscape around Tromsø. We parked up in Tromsdalen and walked the few kilometers along the track until reaching the point where the path crossed over the river and onto the northern shoulder of the mountain. From here it was a lovely hike through some sparse woodland and then out onto the scrub above. Colours were immense - very autumnal and lots of mixtures of green, brown, gold and a bright blue sky above us! Couldn't have picked a more perfect day to go sightseeing outdoors! Caught a bit of cold wind while ascending the steeper part of the ridge, but this dropped away soon, and we had at most a small breeze for the rest of the ridge to the >>>

Store Blåmannen

Datum:

11.09.2011

I had seen Store Blåmannen from Storkjølen the week before our trip, and could not help but notice how striking this mountain was. It was therefore on my 'to-do' list next time! My friend Pernilla joined me for the tour, and we drove over to Kvaløya in the late morning because the weather had been very cloudy and a bit damp, but the forecast suggested drier and sunny weather towards the late afternoon. So we parked at the bottom of the mountain by Kaldfjord and set off shortly after midday, although it was not possible yet to see the summit! After getting above the treeline and onto the slabby rock above, the clouds began to break up and soon we got some views of the highest peaks popping out over the cloud base. The scramble was quite pleasant, and there were lots of interesting things to >>>

Storkjølen

Datum:

03.09.2011

Tourlänge:

5:00h