From Bergen drive east on road E16. When you get to the E16/7 round-about by Trengereid
follow signs for road 7. Drive approximately 32 km until you have an NAF camp
site on the right hand side. Soon after you pass the exit for Furedalen alpine
ski-centre, and 600 metres from the NAF camp site you turn right onto the road "Mødalsvegen".
Park on the car park almost immediately after leaving road 7.
Start your hike by following the asphalt road past the gate and across the
bridge. Follow this road 200 metres and fork right onto a gravel road. Stay on
this mountain road for approximately 3.0 km, to its end by the cabins at Mødal.
From here continue on the path in a southern direction. This path will take you
past the distinct top Såta, passing Såta on its right (west) side. Follow the
bottom of this pass and turn right around its highest point. You will see a sign
for Tveitakvitingen, amongst others, close to the path. Follow the path uphill
towards Gråskorvenuten, passing this top on its left (south) side.
When you get up close to Gråskorvenuten you will see a big cairn towards
west/south-west, at Gråfjellet. Aim for this cairn, following the path, cairns
and red "T"s. From the cairn at Gråfjellet you have a good view of
Tveitakvitingen, and there are several possible routes towards the summit. The
easiest, at least in terms of navigation, is to head south-west and then south,
following the curved ridge on the left (east) side of the snow field which is
likely to be sitting on the north-east slopes of Tveitakvitingen.
There is a fair distance between the cairns between Gråfjellet and the start of
the ascent to Tveitakvitingen, but aim for the quite distinct ridge, and you
will soon find more frequent cairns. Follow the cairns uphill, and you will
eventually find a series of red painted "S"s on the rock. Follow these "S"s all
the way to the summit, which is marked by a large cairn. There is likely to be
at least one registration book inside the cairn.
Descend by reversing your ascent route.
02. September 2010
After yet another week working at our Hagavik factory I was due to travel home
on the afternoon flight this Thursday. When I left work to drive to the airport
I suddenly got a clever idea; I could drive to Kvamskogen and hike
Tveitakvitingen and instead catch the evening flight to Ålesund. After a couple
of hundreds of a second's thinking I concluded, and drove to Furedalen, where I
found a suitable place to park, and changed into hiking gear inside the car.
As I was walking along the mountain road towards Mødal I was so happy
with my own decision, and really enjoyed the else boring mountain road. From
Mødal I continued on the fine path up past Såta, and then up the steep hill
called "Stueveggen". Up here I met a hiker coming down, and he told me he had
attempted Tveitakvitingen but had turned around at Gråfjellet because he found
navigation across the rock difficult. This made me a bit anxious, and I told
myself to be very focused in terms of navigation up there. In hindsight I can
understand him since the section between Gråfjellet and the ridge east of
Tveitakvitingen is not well marked. When I got to Gråfjellet I was very
uncertain where Tveitakvitingen's summit was located and hence which side of the
glacier/snow I should ascend. At the end I decided to head across to the ridge
on the east side, and here I found lots of cairns. From here on navigation was
straight forward.
I spent a fair bit of time on the summit, enjoying the views and the solitude,
before heading back down to the car. As I was walking along the forest road I
realised I might miss my evening flight back home, so called my hotel at Os and
asked for another night. As it turned out I would have got to the airport in
time for the evening flight, but it didn't matter much since I had plenty of
things to take care of at work at Hagavik to justify another day there.
Photos 02.09.2010
Tveitakvitingen trail head by start of Mødalsvegen.
Fork right 200m from Tveitakvitingen trail head by start of Mødalsvegen.
S-marking up east slopes of Tveitakvitingen.