An Art Work A Day

Today I was off with new hiking buddy. That is so nice because then I have an extra option for companionship when I get the urge to conquer another path or another mountain top. Today's top was not that high but still a nice one with a nice view. The trip all in all took 2 hours.

Along the route I keep letting my eyes feast on shapes and patterns in nature on a smaller scale in addition to the mroe spectacular things like boulders and views. Here a kind of mushroom on a tree stump.

Today we decided to hike towards the top outside of the marked paths. That gave us quite a bit of extra exercise.

So in the end we were happy to find the red and blue ribbons and markings for the last leg.

Nearly getting up and as usual I feel better the higher I get.

This tree sculpture made by nature is one of the landmarks saying we are getting near the top.

And here is the mailbox at the top welcoming us. So the ritual can be done - first writing the signatures in the book and then taking photos of me on the top. hehehe.

We had a nice view in most directions from the top and enjoyed looking at nearby tops and discussing which would be hard and which easy to conquer.

Then it was time to go down again.

The last leg went across a lovely blooming swamp by a lake

Today I will let the photos mostly speak for themselves. In the background you can see Skarvefjellet at the foot of Roennomnibben (the top ahead) which was one of the first tops we did. Gunn Lindheim is the photographer by the way.

I am so happy that my sprained ancle got better so quickly. I did as the doctor said and let pain be the only thing that stopped me, wrapped it up and walked more and more even though it was very very slowly and carefully and very short steps on Tuesday, Wednesday I could walk more normally as the swelling went a bit down and each day it improved and now today I walked nearly normally. I even managed a small very very slow and careful jog today. The advantage of having to mover slowly is of course that I then had time to admire the busy food gathering of the bumble bees.

Today we had had quite a bit of rain and it continued so the Top Ten routes which can become very slick was out of the question. We started out wanting to go to a place called Himmelriket but changed our minds because the mist and rain would have covered what would be nice landscape and views there. Instead we checked out a road that is supposed to lead into several nice fishing waters, Søvassmarka. This ended up being a boring wet trip which frankly gave us little joy.

Therefore we added a quick trip up to Oddeknatten once more. The rain was less by then and out outer garments very wet so we decided just to leave the rain clothes in the car and just get more wet wearing normal clothes. This trip really lifted or spirits, LOL I think we are getting hooked on having some inclines and getting to places with a view.

The mountain at the back of this range we think is Aksla which we hiked up to yesterday

This mountain nearly covered in mist is Viksheia the first high Top we visited.

And we do need to remember to enjoy the smaller visual joys as well.

The last stretch returning to the car we run.

Fantastic top today. Enjoy. We did :-)

A few days ago on June the 6th we walked up to The top Kjelleren (the Basement) by Øyvann.
As with many of the Top Ten routes, this one too started with a country road leading towards an area with lots of holiday cottages.


Fortunately, because I do not much want to walk along roads, we left it and went into uneven terrain. Here is the sign towards "Øyvann" (island lake).





Pretty soon we came a bit higher and could look down on some of the farms in the area. It was easy to see because this part of the route was an area where all the timper had been chopped down recently.

But bit by bit we came into more unchanged forest with a nice path and at regular intervals stones lay there as ornaments.


We passed several swamps and small lakes.



About halfway on our way we came into these big rocks called "Kvilesteinane" (The resting rocks) which were a perfect place to strech the legs and drink some water before trudging on.

And now we had more of a view.

As you probably know by now, I take lots of photos.

On tops there are something called a "varde" a cairn in English/Scottish

And as always we sign the book in the mailbox to prove that we did indeed do the trip.

On the way down I had time to enjoy some of the wonderful shapes trees tend to grow into on high grounds due to the challenge of altitude, nourishment and winds.