Category: Hikes

The hike and the climb are convenient and rather easy especially if you are used with this kind of thing. It starts out rather flat and at one point (maybe, 1km in or so?) becomes a rather relentless incline which remains same all the way up to the caves....

This is the one with all the mushrooms. Подосиновик is Rødskrubb or Eikeskrubb or Ospeskrubb in Norwegian. Birch Bolete in English, apparently, although – why is birch here? ‘Cause there’s also Подберезовик (which is more birch-related, then?) which is also a “skrubb” in Norwegian (Brunskrubb?) Easy to get confused,...

This is the third time we’re here, now in the company of 2 friends visiting via Servas. Those two are super fit so we fly up the summit and beat all the records. Also, used different paths to get up and down. Up there it is worth paying attention...

Magical place, but my word – the amount of mosquitoes this time. Not really mosquitoes, though – what do you call knott in English? Horrible swarming bloodsucking bastards. Dinner wasn’t too much fun 🙁 Sleeping here is always delightful, though....

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First time using snow shoes! Great little hike – well, I say “little”, but it was actually a bit hard at times. The ability to move over the snow that looks so smooth and easy makes you do crazy stuff, like climbing steep inclines without knowing how. Or that...

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