Location: North 60.72475, East 005.95199 (GPS on the summit)
Hordaland, Norway
Difficulty: (YDS) class 2
Climbed January 20. 2021
Information:
How to get there:
Drive E-16 from Bergen.
Continue E-16 past Trengereid towards Voss. Continue passing Dale, turn left at
Bolstadøyri. There are two exits, the first is signed, a left turn immediately
after you pass under a small bridge. Continue along a more narrow road to locate
the signed road, 10 kilometer to Øvstedalen. Follow this nice, narrow road as it climbs across
a saddle then descends into Øvstedalen. Continue up the valley passing the farm
Øvstedalen, as the road bends left you arrive at a nice area for parking, this works
all year. This location is N60.68695, E005.97424, elevation about 320 meter.
Route description:
Continue up the mountain farm road serving Norddalen.
In summer, one can hike directly up the south ridge to the summit.
This route is rather cumbersome in winter. The best skiing route is
to ski up Norddalen. When reaching 800 meter of elevation fork right up the
narrow valley to Tinddalsskaret. Head towards lake 921m, but turn right when
the terrain permits and ski south to the summit along easy slopes.
Comments:
I did this climb with my friend Eric. Rather than following the recommended
route as described above, we skied up the passage called Kyrahjellen. This turned
out to be a bad choice, the terrain was steep and complicated to ascend with skis.
The weather was bad with limited visibiity and what was planned as a horseshoe traverse
around Norddalen, was cut short as we returned along the route that has been
recommended above.
We started out at 1000, did not summit before 1415 and made it back to the
car at 1645, just in time before it would get dark.
