An Art Work A Day

Today I am in Bergen, a city at the West coast of Norway situated in between mountains so rain is more the norm than not. Someone told me today that it had had 27 days of rain last month as we had today and yesterday so naturally today's work had to be about rain.

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.

Today's route was up to Torsøl, 200meters above sea level so not as high as the one we did on Friday but still mainly uphill. I was fairly stiff after yesterday's workout at the gym but put on some muscle gel and was ready to go.

Yesterday was a day of thunder and pouring rain which continued a bit into today's trip so we had to wear rainproof clothing. That turned not to be the biggest challenge either. What was the biggest challenge was that all the rain coming down yesterday and last night could only travel one way and that is downhill and the brook on the side of the tractor road or paths could not take it all so the road itself became a brook turning the dirt into mud and making it a challenge. But challenges are to be met and make us stronger.

Fortunately the weather cleared a bit so on the trip down we did not have the rain.

Doing this trip today despite the bad weather and the horrible condition of the path makes us as hikers belong to another league than the ones who only do sunny weather trips and I like how that makes me feel. It is an identity that I enjoy.