Location: North 60.73930, East 5.48828 (GPS at the summit)
Climbed November 27, 2020
Difficulty YDS class 2
Information:
How to get there:
Drive E-39 north from Bergen. Immediately before the long
Eikefet tunnel, take Hwy. 570 (left turn) north towards
Masfjorden. After about 6 kilometer, you cross a pretty long,
but narrow (single lane) bridge. As you exit this bridge, continue
about 1700 meter to a signed road fork going right. Take this
road and continue until you see the house at the end of the road, locate
parking on your right hand side on a gentle hilltop. This location is
N60.71795, E005.41086, elevation about 50 meter.
Route description:
Walk towards the house at the end of the road, then turn left immediately
before crossing the small river. Follow the trail uphill, you cross the
river on a bridge just after start, the trail then stays fairly close
to this river on the right hand side. The trail passes a small hut on the
left, arrives at a small lake, then a red hut when reaching about 525 meter
of elevation.
The trail continues uphill, then more right in order to reach the small
north-south valley called Tverrdalen. Cross diagonally to the north,
the markers lead way to a place where you may ascend out of this small
valley without difficulty.
The trail/route continues east, then more north to the summit of
Båtevassfjellet. The route is quite well marked with small
cairns and some wooden sticks. The summit has an impressive, 2 meter
high cairn. The view is also good, weather permitting.
Comments:
I started walking at 1120.
It was a nice day and a good trail, slightly slippery in places
where water had frozen the previous night. I walked across to
Tverrdalen, failed to see the route and scrambled up some
pretty steep terrain.
Very soon after this crossing, my phone ran out of power, quite a
surprise as it was fully charged in the morning. In this way I lost
my map and camera, I should have brought some backup! I still had
my GPS, but with a pretty useless map.
I then climbed point 758m, I believed that this was indeed the summit.
Once on top, I looked across to see the big cairn on the correct summit.
OK, obviously, my walking was not yet done. I continued to the summit arriving there
surprisingly late, the time was already 1415! With the same time back, it
would get dark before my return. Thus, I hurried a bit more, but still
had a good, enjoyable mountain walk. I was back at 1620, so 2 hours
on my return hike.
