Monday, January 25, 2010

Hikes are getting longer

Yesterday I went on a hike up the crazy trail (called "The Bear" in norwegian) with a group of people including Nick. we were planning on going from our apartments over the peaks of the mountains to Fløyen, which is a 2 hour walk along the nice trail below. We got pretty lost at some points, just kinda looking along the cliff lines trying to figure out where we were. we even found government cabin on the mountain with a map on the wall. But we had no idea where we were on the map and continued to be lost :p .
After about 4 hours we found a cliff lookout that overlooked the groomed trail below and realized that we were only about the equivalent of a 40 min walk along it (not even half way to Fløyen) easy trail below and decided to just head back to Hatleberg (the student residence). This was ok by me because getting to Fløyen isn't the fun part, it hiking along the peaks of the mountains were most of the time there is no trail, the adventure of being slightly lost and plowing your own path. needless to say Nick and I slept like babies last night, i woke up this morning with all my clothes on passed out on my pull out bed that i forgot to pull out :p

This morning Nick and I felt amazing! no pain from the hike and no bruses from all the falls we took along the way. the deep snow made things interesting, you never knew when you were going to fall through and smoke yourself on a sharp rock. I managed to do this a few times, one time i managed to go through the snow and wedge my leg under a rock and fall sideways. I have no idea how i didnt break my leg or wake up with any bruises, perhaps im invincible (i'll put that to the test another day :)
Pics from the hike are attached to the end of the album labelled "mountain behind my apartment"

oh and i should also mention that the first video in that album showed a higher peak that then one i was at, and on this hike we made it to that peak because we started at 9am and had enough time to do so. The pic of the peak is a blurry image of a group of us surrounding a rock pillar.

pics at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonmader/sets/72157623242716276/detail/

new ones start about half way down the page

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