Fat skis

This is where we start walking.

First we had to carry... 

Spring - A little grass and a little snow.

Going up. 

Higher...

Summit. 

Jonas ready to hit the slopes.

Maja, Jonas and Marcela taking off skins.

Today I borrowed rando skis from Maja to try out and it was quite fun. We went up Hellostinden. I fell a couple of times on the way down but I didn't fall hard. Only I had some bad luck and twisted my knee one time and it hurt but then it went away. But later on our way home it came back and hurt so bad that it was not possible for me to go by bike to work monday morning. Luckily my neighbour was on early duty so I could go with her. View from Hellostinden:

Masstind

Looking at the first part of the route.

Heading up.

Snowing a little.

Conditions on this side not so good. 

It took us 4 hours to get here.

Bad conditions for The Star Peak. 

Traversing back.

Two happy guys. 

Instead we turned our direction...

...towards another lovely peak. 

Stable conditions on the ridge.

Almost there. 

Summit Masstinden 750 m.

Another way down.

It's springtime, sun is making the snow unstable and it's getting a bit late for winter climbs. Conditions are not so good anymore. But still I had a lovely day with Jonas and Martin in amazing weather and we all got down safely from this 10 hour hike.

Afternoon hike

View to the west.

Maja, Kjell-Arne and Merete.

Maja called and she had found my long lost red camalot! We were just going for a hike up to Nonstind so Maja came along. When we came down we were really hungry so we made some dinner and talked and suddenly it was half past nine...

Tindstind 490 m

 

 

 

 

 

Happy shining sunday, with two good friends that gave me so much positive energy! Today we went to Tindstind. We met this german guy who said he was on a mission from God. He was wearing jeans and had a bow and some arrows. He said he was going to the same mountain but he didn't go far. When we put on crampons and took off the ice axe I think he realized maybe he wasn't prepared for this. After this trip we got hungry so we went to Maren Anna in Sørvågen.

Skimtet and Åttlitinden

Merete.

Heading up to Skimtet.

All of us.

Skimtet plateau. 

Merete and Berit.

Håtinden in front of us. 

Berit heading for the ridge.

Summit Åttlitinden. 

Merete and Berit just behind.

Merete and Berit.

Today I had a lovely hike in a fantastic weather and I am so grateful to be able to do this with some really nice people. This is just what I need.

Heading down from the mountain...

Photo: Anne Marit

I just love these people! Makes me smile.

Brynliskartinden

Today we had a lovely day, skiing to the end of Krokvatnet and then we had to walk. Me and Andreas went up Brynliskartind. I was so excited to finally get up there and have a look down at Hermannsdalen which is a place I also want to go some day. It was a really long hike today, a lot of up and down, up and down and some really steep sections in the end which was a bit on the edge due to various snow quality. But we made it back down safely. Terje and Anne Marit were still there waiting for us. It took us ten hours from leaving the cabin until we got back. We fired up the stove, hang stuff to dry and made dinner.