Norwegian Mountains, Sogn og Fjordane

Jordalsnipa (1453m), Holefjell (1440m),
Brekkenipa (1387m) round trip, Oct 13 2013


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The round trip route

The round trip route
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Yesterdays' fantastic hike to Kvannholtenipa was history, but the stunning weather stayed with us for one more day. Anne and me decided to go back to the Fjærland region and continue "working" on our list of Sogndal municipality peaks. The main target for today was Jordalsnipa.

After studying the map, a round trip hike soon presented itself as the obvious choice; the horseshoe around Hamradalen valley. The time was 10:35am when we had parked the car at Homrane and were ready to head out.

It took us 45 minutes to reach Hamrastølen and additional 30 minutes up to Nesahaugen (665m). We were now above the forest and the views got more and more impressive by the minute...

 

Above Nesahaugen

Above Nesahaugen
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On Point 1097m (12:50pm), we took a short break and enjoyed life for a little while. The route ahead towards Holefjell and Jordalsnipa seemed easy, and we had already learned from a farmer by the trailhead that the north side of point 1280m wouldn't offer any problems. Karma had a great day of course. There was just a million different scents around...

 

On Point 1097m

On Point 1097m
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We continued up to Point 1280m (1:32pm) and it seemed that the farmer was right. The descent towards Holefjell wouldn't cause us any problems. We had now been walking for 3 hours and I was pretty eager to set my foot on a bona fide summit. Hence, we didn't stay long on this top and moved on.

 

From 1280m to Holefjell

From 1280m to Holefjell
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The time was 2:09pm when we arrived on Holefjell, but Jordalsnipa - my bona fide summit was still 0,7km to the southwest. After a short round of pictures, we moved on.

We arrived on Jordalsnuten 2:32pm, and my first action was to photograph the peaks along "Meneseggi" - which I skied back in 2004. That was a very, very memorable trip in my mountaineering career...

 

View towards Meneseggi

View towards Meneseggi
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During our ascent, we were a bit worried that the descent via Vardafjell and Lakkenipa could be quite cumbersome. The farmer had told us that we had to find the ledge that would bring us into Hamradalen in a "civilized manner" (my own interpretation). As we were not convinced that this would be a trivial task, we decided to descent into Distaddalen instead. The map promised some kind of path from Distadfjellstølen, and that was the path we put our money on...

But first, we had to get to Brekkenipa. The ridge ahead looked fun, and it actually got a bit narrow in one point. As I didn't fancy hauling Karma over this airy section, we took the safer route down on the right-hand side...

 

Fun section between Jordalsnipa and Brekkenipa

Fun section between Jordalsnipa and Brekkenipa
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We reached the top of Brekkenipa at 3:35pm. It was now 5 hours since we left the trailhead and we were now above 1400 meters. If we ran into obstacles during our descent, dinner would be late today...

The descent into Distaddalen went well. And when we got to the Distadfjellstølen ruins at approx. 600 meters, we also found the (partially marked) path down to the fjord. I cannot even try to imagine the world of pain we would have been in - had we not found this path...

 

Down by Fjærlandsfjorden

Down by Fjærlandsfjorden
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We had 2,4km along the road to Homrane. I am not to crazy about doing kilometers along a road, but when it's along Fjærlandsfjorden I can surely make an exception. We returned to the trailhead 6 o'clock sharp - 7h:25m after heading out. Dinner sure tasted good that evening!

 

Walking along Fjærlandsfjorden

Walking along Fjærlandsfjorden
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Pictures

The pictures were taken with a Canon EOS 60D + Canon EF-S 18-200mm 3.5-5.6 IS

 

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To the trailhead

1. The route 2. View from Bremuseet in Fjærland 3. View from Bremuseet in Fjærland 4. Our ascent route 5. Amazing Fjærland landscape

To Nesahaugen

6. Heading out from Homrane 7. Route information 8. Locating the first signpost 9. In the forest 10. Romhesten 11. A nice day in the forest 12. Arriving at Hamrastølen 13. Passing Hamrastølen 14. Bøyabreen 15. Characteristic Fjærland mountains

To point 1280m

16. Passing Nesahaugen 17. The Glacier Museum 18. Supphellebreen 19. Well above the forest 20. Mundalen view 21. View up the mountain 22. A short break... 23. A quick nap... 24. Looking back on point 1097m 25. On point 1280m 26. Holefjell and Jordalsnipa 27. On our way there!

To Holefjell

28. Looking back on point 1280m 29. Holefjell ahead 30. Looking back on point 1280m 31. A small glacier? 32. Gradually gaining ground... 33. Crazy Karma... 34. One steep hill left 35. Fjord view 36. In the final hill 37. Views are seriously opening up! 38. The happiest girl for miles around... 39. On Holefjell

Wide angle view from Holefjell

40. Wide angle view from Holefjell

To Jordalsnipa

41. On to Jordalsnipa 42. Grøndalsnipa and Heimstegretta 43. This is NOT Prekestolen! 44. Looking back on Holefjell 45. View towards Brekkenipa - where we will descend from 46. Heimstegretta 47. On Jordalsnipa

Wide angle views from Jordalsnipa

48. Wide angle view from Jordalsnipa 49. Wide angle view from Jordalsnipa

To Brekkenipa

50. Brekkenipa ahead 51. Hurrungane 52. Fremsta Ryssenipa 53. Looking back on Jordalsnipa 54. On our way to Brekkenipa 55. On a narrow ridge 56. Looking back on Jordalsnipa and Holefjell 57. Romhesten and Stav 58. Jordalen 59. En route to Brekkenipa 60. Not too crazy about being photographed... 61. Looking back on Jordalsnipa 62. Anne arriving on Brekkenipa 63. On top of Brekkenipa 64. Harevollnipa 65. Melsnipa

Panoramas from Brekkenipa

66. Wide angle view from Brekkenipa 67. Zoom view from Brekkenipa

Descent

68. Descending Brekkenipa 69. Upper Distaddalen 70. To the fjord! 71. View towards Storebotn 72. On the path to the fjord 73. Almost down... 74. Down! 75. Romhesten 76. Back to Homrane 77. Supphellebreen 78. View across the fjord

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