#Sandviksfjellet

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7-Fjellsturen completed in 12h20min. Longer than I wanted but shorter than I thought it would take, given the weather conditions. Lots of rain yesterday, and some rain today (and snow and hail; thank you, Ulriken), made for a very muddy trail.

Kilometres hiked: 35

Number of Kvikk Lunsj consumed: 6

Litres of water imbibed: 3

Eggs hatched in Pokémon GO: 27

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Day 23: The 6 mountain hike

08.08.2022

Lyderhorn (396 moh) - Damsgardsfjellet (345 moh) - Løvstakken (477 moh) - Fløyen (399 moh) - Rundemanen (568 moh) - Sanviksfjellet (392 moh)

Hiking distance: 33.2 km

Elevation gain: 1810m

Moving time (without breaks): 11 hours

Sometimes you just need some crazy people around you that help you put your crazy ideas into action. And I was very happy that I had found some here. There are seven mountains surrounding the city of Bergen, the highest and most popular of them - Mount Ulriken - I had already climbed on the day of my arrival. But there were six remaining ones and I thought it might be funny to hike them all in one day. Since Emma, one of the volunteers organizing daily activities in the hostel, was also very much into hiking and liked the idea, we persuaded the other volunteers to suggest it as the activity of today. Some other travellers that were staying in the hostel joined as well, so it was the eight of us leaving the hostel at 7.30am this morning. Apart from the volunteers Mario, Antonio and Emma there were Arian and Lea from Germany, Carlos from Spain and Matthew from the US. All in all a very mixed and funny crew. Carlos for instance had just been playing a concert in Oslo since he was playing in three different metal bands at a time and trying to make a living out of it right now, at the age if 26. On the other side, 28-year old Antonio was about to switch job and was getting paid by his company for this stay in Norway in order to improve his English. While hiking and being on vacation, well played. Interestingly, Lea from Stuttgart often goes hiking in the region close to my home in Switzerland and her parents were there right now - what a coincidence! And Matthew, living up to the cliché of a guy from Florida going on a proper hike for the first time in his life, had of course arrived in some sort of sneakers. I was curious to see how far he would make it. :-)

We had to drive almost one hour by bus to arrive at the starting point of the hike and to climb the first one of the mountains: Lyderhorn, 396 meteres above sea level. The climb up there and moreover the way down was quite challenging. Not because it was steep or anything but because all of the trail was very muddy and swampy again and the stones were super slippery. It therefore became a challenge not to fall - which I did not succeed in. We had only reached the bottom of mountain 1 out of 7 and I was already wearing a plaster on my hand.

We continued to the second one, Damsgardsfjellet with 345 metres above sea level, and further to the 477 metre high Løvstakken. At this point it was already 3pm since we had been walking rather slow due to some shoe issues of a person whose name I‘m not gonna mention here. :-) I therefore suggested that we would skip Ulriken since it was the one closest to our hostel and since I and some others had already been on top of it. So we made our way further to mountain number four: 399 moh Fløyen, from where we continued to 568 moh Rundemanen, today‘s highest. Though half of our group was about to call it a day at this point and we could definitely all feel our legs - everyone stayed strong and we made our way to the last mountain of the day: Sandviksfjellet, 392 moh. It was around 9pm when we took a final picture with an amazing view over Bergen.

As a final effort this day we then had to take down what a local called „the steepest stairs in the world“ to get down to the city. After some steps I could definitely see what he meant. We all concentrated on not falling on those last steps and gladly made it safely down to the city. It was 11pm when we arrived at our hostel, everyone super-tired and feeling the 33 kilometres in their legs. However, none of this held us back from having an amazing rest of the evening with deep conversations until 3am. Those are definitely my favourite type of days! It was unbelievable that I had met most of these people only this morning but already felt like I knew them way longer. What an impact a day of hiking together could have..

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The summer of reading and dropping lipsticks in toilets

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A combination of a graphic I found of the 7 Mountain Tour and my pictures from each of the peaks.

The graphic doesn’t do the fifteen hour hike justice. It’s no attempt to brag, I’m merely saying that I went in not knowing the thick line was stylistic at best. The first three peaks weren’t much of a challenge: with fresh legs, well defined paths, and not too much change in altitude I knocked them out in a few hours. Why the other four weren’t just an hour each is because they’re in no way connect like that. Between each were valleys, intermediary hills, and towns to be navigated through. It was such a terrible feeling sitting on a summit and realizing you’d climbed the wrong mountain, and the right one was still a kilometer away.

Winded and nearly defeated I was able to summit the last of the seven mountains as the sun set. The distant clouds came just shy of the horizon leaving a thin gap with which the sun shone through like a band of pink and orange neon. You could look right at it without squinting. It colored the sea and sky just the same but left the speckles of islands as dark as the night sky that would never come. Words and pictures could never describe the sight. [/]

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MOUNTAIN #2 - SANDVIKFJELLET | 417m | 1 mountain, different moments, different landscapes

This is the closest mountain to hike from my school (Norwegian School of Economics) and from my residence.

As I am doing this hike very often I’ve seen the view with different weathers. I really like this view of Bergen. 

There are two different ways to get in:

- one fast and steep (hardest one): by the stairs of Stoltzekleiven 

- one easier but longer way: by the road behind Hatleberg

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Day 12

Today, Dara 🇳🇱, Michael 🇦🇹, Tom 🇩🇪 and I went on a hike, because the sun came out! Yes I couldn’t believe it either! We had a good time, it was more a hike than the last time and we really had a great view over Bergen and the fjords. Unless it was really windy and cold on the top, there was enough time to take pictures. 

On the way down we just passed the top of one 7 mountains Sandviksfjellet, so 2 of 7 already done. We also passed a lot of little ponds and lakes. But just look at the pictures and be amazed too! 

(It was also a good distraction for me, but I had to think about a lot..) 

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Waterfall along Mulelven, which flows out from Nedrediket and down through Skredderdalen.

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