Lille Piggtinden

Dato:

27.09.2012

Turtype:

Fottur

© Hannah Vickers A very excellent day out. And my very first trip up a 'Lyngen Alp'. I have really only had one primary mountain 'goal' since moving to Tromso, and that is to climb at least one mountain in Lyngen, and this was the trip that fulfilled it, even though Lille Piggtinden is not really in the heart of the Lyngen peninsula. Anyway, I met up with two guys at ICA Langnes at kl.10 - Asbjorn, who I had met on previous trip and Reidar, who was a friend of Asbjorn's. Reidar drove us down towards the parking place in Lakselvdalen where we would begin the hike up. It was quite an impressive view of Lille Piggtinden from the entrance to the valley, and one which I wish I had got a photo of before before we started! I think it was more or less by the shores of Sørfjorden at it's western end where we parked >>>

Store Blåmann

Dato:

13.09.2012

Turtype:

Fottur

Turlengde:

5:00t

© Hannah Vickers Another opportunity for hiking with my friend Terese ( TerFlo (Terese Flo) ) came up when she had two days off work. Simultaneously the weather for both these days was forecasted to be fine and dry, so we met up on the Thursday with a plan to ascend Store Blåmann, yet another of (in my opinion) Tromsø's 'classic' hikes. It is actually quite a short trip, with less than 3km from the parkeringplass to the top of the mountain, so there was no hurry to start early and we left Tromsø at around kl.10 in rather tett tåke. Fortunately, by the time we had reached Kaldfjord the fog had been left behind us and we could see the Blåmann across the fjord under blue skies. It seemed like my dream to go back up the mountain with sunshine and good visibility might about to become true. So both of us were excited and feeling >>>

Hamperokken

Dato:

02.09.2012

Turtype:

Fottur

Turlengde:

7:00t

© Hannah Vickers Hamperokken is I think, probably one of the 'classics' to do in Tromsø. For me, this was to be my second ascent of Hamperokken (the first time being on a super-summery day in August 2009). The opportunity to make a return visit came along when my friend TerFlo (Terese Flo) who I'd met on a previous fjellsportgruppa trip said she would join. Initially my plan was to take a hike up Tverrbotnfjellet, another mountain quite close to Hamperokken but on the other side of Lavangsdalen. But since Terese had not been to Hamperokken and neither had I for about 3 years, I suggested we take a trip here instead. On the plus side too, the weather was forecasted to be good for most of the day but rain was edging in from the west, so going further east would at least buy us some extra minutes of dry weather later on in the >>>

Styrmannstinden

Dato:

01.09.2012

Turtype:

Fottur

Turlengde:

4:00t

© Hannah Vickers There isn't a lot to say about this trip, apart from that the views are really nice and there is a very pleasant path that goes up from Grøtfjorden all the way up to the climbers hut at the pass between Styrmannstinden and Zapffetoppen....I took this hike with a guy from the fjellsportgruppa,who I hadn't met before but who had responded to a message I posted on the facebook group. Anyway, he turned out to be good, friendly company and that at least made the trip a bit more fun. The route is fairly short, about 2.5km from the car to the top and the path is well-trodden for most of the way up. It was a shame that it got bit cloudier through the course of the day, because it had started off so bright and sunny when we'd left Tromsø, but even with the cloud the summit views were excellent, and >>>

Skulgamtinden

Dato:

30.08.2012

Turtype:

Fjelltur

Turlengde:

6:30t

© 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 >>>

Synnøvjordtinden

Dato:

15.08.2012

Turtype:

Fjelltur

© 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

Dato:

07.08.2012

Ullstinden

Dato:

31.07.2012

Turtype:

Fjelltur

Turlengde:

4:30t

© Hannah Vickers monakaup (Mona Kaupang) , one of the friends I had made from an FSG trip happened to have a whole day off - and both of us were keen to make the most of it if weather permitted. As things turned out, a load of rain was forecasted during the daytime, and rather than go out and deliberately get wet we chose to postpone a trip until the evening, when dry weather was supposed to come along. Our choice of mountain was Ullstinden, probably quite a popular winter peak and also a summer one because it is a Ti på Topp trip, although it is not the true summit of Ullstinden which is the recommended Ti på Topp route but the south-west summit. Well, it was good enough for us, and provided about 10km of walking up and down. Perfect for an evening. Depressingly though, when we met up at the Joker on Dramsveien, it was pretty wet >>>

Vasstinden

Dato:

29.07.2012

Turtype:

Fjelltur

Turlengde:

4:00t

© Hannah Vickers There is nothing more satisfying than spending 5 hours in warm coastal sunshine while the rest of the city is covered in fog. That's exactly how things turned out on the last Sunday afternoon in July. For everyone living on the eastern side of Tromsøya, it probably would have appeared to have been a dull and grey day. For people like me living on the western side however, I could see a huge patch of blue sky and glorious sunshine illuminating pretty much the whole of Kvaløya for the whole day (although the cloud and fog were kind of moving slowly across from east to west by evening), and it would have been such a shame not to snatch the chance to enjoy it too! So that it how the Vasstinden plans were made. I suggested to my friend Ilona that we head out for a hike, as far west as possible >>>

Tromsdalstinden

Dato:

27.07.2012

Turtype:

Fjelltur

Turlengde:

7:00t

© Hannah Vickers After almost 4 days of rainy weather, yet another window of hiking opportunity was forecasted for Friday evening and Saturday morning. I was sceptical of course, since the previous 'sunny' spell had not come when it had been forecasted. As things turned out, Friday was looking decidedly un-sunny until the evening...... then within about 1/2 hour the skies over Tromsø rapidly changed from overcast to clear and blue; we had a trip. My fiends Kristina and Ka Yan, who are also doing the Ti på Topp list, came up with an idea to take a night trip to Tromsdalstinden, and meet up at kl. 21 to start. Sounded quite an enticing idea to me, and I agreed. And that's how it started. At kl.21 we left the parking space in Tromsdalen and began the slightly tedious march up the forest track. It was quite a >>>