sunnmørsalpane

Some thoughts about sunnmørsalpane. This is a totally amazing place if you are looking for some hiking in peace. During our days here we have not met a single hiker in the trails and i have to say it is really nice. There are some downsides with this tough. It was difficult to find a map of the area and there are few to ask, even the people in ålesund tourist info looked like parrots and provided a map made by a 3yr old. Also, Because so few people walk here the trails are very difficult to follow and we lost track several times. The trails can also be quite difficult and are sometimes not suited well if you are carrying a heavy pack. The nature is though incredible and i would say even better then jotunheimen but it is not as easy to plan a trip here. Ålesund and ørsta have some tings to learn in this area. But it has been a few fantastic days.

on more fjord shot

tuesday

No rain today so that was fantastic. This was overall the best day so far. We made 3 water crossings and at 700m the water is mighty cold. Faithful to our habit of getting lost in dangerous places we lost the trail during a very steap climb an had to work ourselves another 100m up the ridge. Though having cursed the rocks climbing up the view was spectacular from 1100m. The climb down was to our surprise quite easy and we have set camp at about 200m in an incredible place. So happened our place was in blueberry heaven so ania got a bit crazy with the picking so no difficult guess what we had for desert. Tomorrow we are catching a ferry and will try to make our way back to ålesund where we have a hotel room waiting for up. As far as the sportstracker goes i guess my conclusion is thats it's a great tool for sport but not so much for longer out door activitys. Though having had a internet enabled phone with has been a killer. We had to change plan several times and it's helped up catch ferrys and buses that would not have been possible otherwise.

tent view

The tuesday evening view from our tent, magnificent.

monday

There are good days and there are bad, and this was the latter. The rain was pouring when we woke up and the sky was grey. We waked 8k to catch the ferry to the next island where we walked during the day. When we reached 500m the mist was so bad we had about 15m visibility. We got recommende a shortcut by a norwegian cabin worker but becase we could not see anything we had to turn back to avoid getting totally lost. Back on track again we where totally soaked and there is on way our boots will dry up by tomorrow. All in all we hiked about 20k in really shitty conditions so we are hoping for some sun tomorrow.

fog

Visibility is right now about 20m. We almost lost our trail so we have to go back.

the final decent

sunday

Today was truely eventful. We walked about 15k and the trip went from 300m to 800m to 400m to 800 to 0 so we are quite pleased with our efforts. We experienced crossing ice cold water bare foot 3 times and we almost lost anias shoe to a waterfall but i jumped in without hesitation and managed to grab it just in time. The next hour was spent with wet trousers but since it was a sunny day we quickly dried up again. Then there was a bit of a scary episode when we had to walk on a really narrow high path over a almost vertical drop and since we later have found out that path is almost never used it was difficult to follow so at the most critical place we found oursele very exposed. Carrying 18kg does not help either when you have to be super careful about keeping your balance. Down at sea level again we camped out in what looked to be a really nice place and after have coming to terms with that a lot of small mosquitos also thought that we now are getting ready for tomorrow.

day 2

We slept about 9hours so we where well rested in the morning. I ran sportstracker a little bit the first 7k but the mountains messed with the signal so it looked like we ran in circles. Because there is on cell coverage here i will write some stuff during the way and send it in bursts. Weather so far is really good, a little bit of rain but it is norway so it is to be expected.

We had to cross here. Ouch i can tell you it was cold

day one

Saturday was a really long day that started when we woke up at 4.40 am. It proved difficult to find a proper hiking map and we could not find one covering all. This ment that we hiked the fist 13k almost without map. Because we started a bit off ment that we did not meet a single hiker during the entire day. We set camp just when we realized that we had reached the corner of our proper map. A first toughu on sporttracker for an event like this is that is really drains the battery. I have 4 with me but would probably need the double if i should track 5 full days. Otherwise the n95 has saved the day several times so far. Good internet and gps kicks ass. Though for a quick location look google maps is the fastest to use.

food day 1

Having a not so good chicken curry. It took a long time to get out from ålesund because of hardly any busses.

landed

10.30 arrived in ålesund. We are tired from an early morning

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