Bjørnøyfjellet along
north ridge Bjørnøyfjellet |
Estimated net time | 30 minutes |
Difficulty | No difficulties. |
Drinking water | No access to drinking water. |
GSM coverage | Coverage throughout the route. |
Parking | Room for a couple of cars at trail head. |
Start height | 25 metres |
Vertical metres | 120 metres for the roundtrip |
Trip distance | 1.1 km |
GPS-file | X |
Map |
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Route photo |
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Drive to the intersection of roads 659 and 661 by Eidet (Tennfjord). Turn left towards Søvik/Brattvåg and continue for 4.4 km until you get to the exit for Søvik. Drive 17.8 km along this road and turn left where signed for "Bjørnøy" and "Kystfort". Drive across the man-made dam and continue along this road, 3.0 km in total from road 659. You will see a sign "Bjørnøya" pointing up to the right, and will find room for the car ~30 metres before this sign.
A few metres before the sign you will see a faint path. Follow this path up-hill, north of the small forest. The path soon becomes more visible and turns left towards the north ridge of Bjørnøyfjellet. The path then follows this ridge all the way to the summit. Note that you have to pass a couple of humps before you get to the highest point.
The descent route follows the ascent route.
I had initially planned to drive to Vestnes or Ørskog to do a mountain if the weather was nice this Saturday, but because my wife was away all day I couldn't be away from home most of the day without someone looking after my youngest. I therefore decided to reduce my number of Haram mountains not visited from five to three, by visiting Terøyfjellet and Bjørnøyfjellet.
It was a nice sunny day as I left Brattvåg, and a little icy on the roads from
the last few days of cold weather. After having visited Terøyfjellet I drove to
Bjørnøya and was soon on my way up along the north ridge of Bjørnøyfjellet. The
sunny and nice conditions I had enjoyed when hiking Terøyfjellet had now changed
to fairly grey conditions, but there was no rain and no reason to complain.
After taking my photos at the summit I quickly returned to the car a drove back
home. Only three more Haram mountains to do (Åsen in Fannedalen, and the
high-points at Lepsøy and Fjørtoft), plus a few other "points of interest" like
Byrkjevollhornet.
Photos 01.11.2008