Andersdaltinden

Datum:

16.05.2012

Tourcharakter:

Wanderung

Tourlänge:

5:30h

© Hannah Vickers The weather was forecasted to be 12 degrees and sunshine, so I seized the moment and decided to go on a trip instead of going to work! I decided to return to Andersdaltinden, since I had not made the summit on the previous attempt almost 2 weeks earlier because of really strong winds on the mountain. Parked up at about 0915 at the bottom near the information area and began the hike up through the forests. The snow was, as I expected, super soft but seemed quite stable. But it was mega hard work, and many times during the first half hour of the hike I didn't think I would bother going much farther before giving up on the mission! However, I had my mp3 player banging out some great tunes and since there was no hurry to get back I made a point of persevering with the hike and just thought of the >>>

Blåtinden

Datum:

21.04.2012

Tourcharakter:

Schneeschuhtour

Tourlänge:

5:00h

© Hannah Vickers The hike up Blåtinden was a something of a multi-visit trip, since I had made an ascent of this mountain in the autumn of 2011 with my sister, and remember the views as being really good, especially when you get quite high on to the upper slopes of the mountain. Then, in January I also took a hike in the hope of seeing the sun make its return back to the Arctic, but the hike had taken me a very long time (we're talking like 2 hours here), just to get up and above the forests on the very lowest part of the mountain - simply because there had been such deep snow to hike through and at that point in the season had not discovered the possible benefits of snow shoes or skis......! This time however, I had plenty of daylight and was armed with snow shoes. When I parked at the foot of the mountain >>>

Fløya

Datum:

14.04.2012

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 >>>

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