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Andershovden, Grauaåsen and Sonvesåsen

Date:
10.11.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
6:37h
Distance:
30.4km

Andershovden After exiting the train at Voss, I walked along the roads to Tvilde where I easily located the marked trailhead. By following the signs for Storeåsen, first along a gravel road and later a long various trail, the progress was straightforward and with some excellent views towards Lønahorgi along the way (which would turn out to be a familiar element throughout the rest of the hike). Storeåsen itself was not marked, and I did not bother locating the summit. North of Storeåsen, where the trail connected with a gravel road, there was another information sign, from which I followed the trail towards Gudleikstreet, taking me through the Håmyrane nature reserve. (As it turned out, I could also simply have followed the gravel road north for a couple hundred meters and reconnected with the same >>>

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Across Hellen festning

Date:
09.11.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:37h
Distance:
3.7km

Short local hike across Hellen festning.

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Barsnesfjorden

Date:
01.11.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:51h
Distance:
4.6km

Short walk along Barsnesfjorden. (Note that the road this hike follows is private, i.e. no cars allowed. There are however a couple of parking spaces down by the small wharf along Barsnesfjorden just before the road turns west and starts climbing slightly towards the crossroads at Barsnes.)

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Hellestveitåsen and Seberg

Date:
27.10.2019
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
0:30h
Distance:
1.9km

Before returning to Bergen (after our hike to Skrott and Geitafjellet ), me and Endre ( Fjellsamleren (Endre Myrdal Olsen) ) decided to make a short detour to Hellestveitåsen , aiming to also reach the viewpoint at Seberg before it got too dark. An initial attempt to continue driving along the gravel road beyond Hellestveit Gard was quickly abandoned. We therefore parked next to the farm, hoping nobody would mind, and followed the gravel road towards the summit. When the road ended, a trail took us up to a gate leading into a spruce forest. The forest was relatively dense and provided next to no views, but we had little trouble walking in between the trees. Locating the highest point was more challenging, as there were several similar options to choose from. After visiting all of the most likely candidates we returned to the gravel road, ready for some hopefully much better >>>

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Skrott, Glynt and Geitafjellet

Date:
27.10.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
6:49h
Distance:
15.4km

On what would turn out to be a perfect late October day for hiking, me and Endre ( Fjellsamleren (Endre Myrdal Olsen) ) drove early from Bergen to Fitjadalen, were we started our ascent from the parking lot just after nine, following the marked trail. At about 600 meters we came across the first real snow, and from there on the amount continued to increase the further up we got. There were some partially hidden footprints in the snow, most likely from the day before, but we were the first hikers this morning, and thus had to make our own path (following the red T’s) up the mountainside. The progress was therefore slower than expected, as we kept sinking deeper and deeper into the snow. At the cabin southwest of Skrott we left the main trail to Breidablik and instead followed the cairns towards the summit. Here there were no footprints at all, >>>

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Høgehaugen

Date:
26.10.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:37h
Distance:
4.3km

To complete our tour of small peaks along Samnanger-/Eikelandsfjorden, me and Endre ( Fjellsamleren (Endre Myrdal Olsen) ) had saved the worst for last: Høgehaugen . At least that seemed to be the verdict after reading reports from previous visits. We started from the standard location, i.e. the small parking lot next to Sævellavatnet on the border of Fusa and Samnanger. But where everybody else had seemed to stay north of Botnavatnet, we instead headed south, hoping that this would provide an easier route to the elusive trail west of the lake. After walking 100 meters south along the main road, we continued west and later south/southwest on a forest road, taking us east of Botnavatnet. When the forest road forked, or at least a smaller weaker forest road headed southwest, we briefly followed in the footsteps of a running deer, and then >>>

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Hykkelsåsen

Date:
26.10.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
0:18h
Distance:
0.9km

After visiting Dormannsnipen and Beljaråsen , me and Endre ( Fjellsamleren (Endre Myrdal Olsen) ) continued to Hykkelsåsen . We parked the car next to the road at Medås, after quickly discarding the option to drive up the steep and narrow gravel road towards the antenna west of the main road. At the top of the gravel road we noticed what we first thought were red trail markers, but it soon became apparent there were simply too many of them, hence these were most likely trees marked for later being cut down for fire wood. We therefore ignored the markings and instead made our own way towards the summit, which was quickly reached, the only minor obstacle being an electric fence that could easily be traversed. As expected, there were next to no views from the summit. There was however some sort of outdoor gym set up, with ropes to climb and bars that could be used >>>

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Beljaråsen

Date:
26.10.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:00h
Distance:
3.9km

Given that Endre ( Fjellsamleren (Endre Myrdal Olsen) ) had not yet visited Beljaråsen , and given that we were very close after completing our hike to Dormannsnipen , he managed to convince me to join him for my second visit. This time ascending via the old tractor road east of the summit, which when ending turned into a trail that easily took us all the way to the summit. We returned along the same route, as I suggested avoiding the "shortcut" me and Helwig ( HHauser (Helwig Hauser) ) used on our previous visit: Skarsnuten, Vardafjellet, Grytefjellet and Beljaråsen .

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Dormannsnipen

Date:
26.10.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
1:10h
Distance:
3.4km

On a rainy Saturday morning, me and Endre ( Fjellsamleren (Endre Myrdal Olsen) ) decided to postpone our planned hike to Skrott until tomorrow and instead spend this day visiting a couple of smaller peaks along Samnanger-/Eikelandsfjorden. The first being Dormannsnipen . Upon arriving at Hafskordalen Parkering we noticed one other car, which turned out to contain a deer hunter and three kids. They were just about to go hunting in the area north of Dormannsnipen and were more than willing to show us the way, as long as we did not move too far north after visiting the summit. We were more than happy with this arrangement and soon found ourselves following the hunters along a weak unmarked trail, with a hidden trailhead that we probably would not have found on our own. The trail was very wet and did not head straight for the summit, but it is most likely still the easiest >>>

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Mykkeltveitveten from Evanger (roundtrip)

Date:
20.10.2019
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
6:05h
Distance:
20.5km

Took the train to Evanger and from there walked along the gravel road up Vossedalen. The gravel road continued much longer than expected and did not come to an end until around 800 meters north of Vossedalstølen . When the road ended I realized that I had missed the start of the trail 200 meters earlier, but instead of going back I headed diagonally southwest, assuming I would connect with the trail soon enough. A sign at the start of the hike had indicated that there should be a marked trail, but while the trail I soon came across was marked with a red T, this would be the only marker I would find. Not too long after passing Vossedalstølen the trail pretty much disappeared completely, and though I made attempts at relocating it, I could not find any traces of it. I still more or less followed the route of >>>

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