Norwegian Mountains, Møre og Romsdal

Laupsnipa from Vålnes (Voldnes), Oct 2 2006

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Trip report, Oct 2 2006

It was time to further explore the tops in Ytre Søre Sunnmøre (outer southern southern Møre !!) and Laupsnipa was on today's agenda. Lately, there had been a number of awesome mornings and evenings, and today was no exception. Watching the colors dance on the sky, is just a fantastic experience!

I subtracted one hour from the flexi-account and was ready to hike from Vålneset 16:20PM. My dog "Troll" gave me the surprise of the day, and walked up the somewhat steep forest road, by his own will. It was a nice afternoon. The weather wasn't all that great, but still nice. As we approached boggy ground after crossing Vålneselva, I put Troll in the backpack, as progress was getting a bit slow.

From there on, the hike up to the top went non-stop, and I reached the summit cairn 17:20PM. It seemed obvious that there was a higher point 100m W/SW, and we went over there. A sign pointed to Keipen. I imagined it was the narrow ridge I could see 400m further west, but it didn't seem THAT narrow. Thus, not exciting enough to spend almost a kilometer on. Skoratinden, on the other side of Rovdefjorden, caught my attention. Again. I had seen this top from distance, many times. A ridge traverse is on the agenda for 2007, and now I could get a better overview of the surrounding terrain and the trailhead.

After a round of pictures, we headed back down. I considered a roundtrip via Jøsokelva, but figured that Troll would benefit from descent on trail, opposed to a round-trip in the backpack. We were back at the car 18:08PM and had a long drive back to Ålesund ahead of us.

Pictures from the Oct 1 2006 hike

Note: This was the first time I've used the Autostitch program. Only on the longer panoramas. Less trouble than with PanoramaMaker.

To Hareidlandet, early morning

1. Dawn (77KB) 2. Sunrise (76KB) 3. Sandvikshornet (64KB) 4. Aurdalsnibba (74KB) 5. Sunrise (71KB) 6. Great job ... (147KB)

To Laupsnipa

7. Laupsnipa ahead (83KB) 8. The trailhead (204KB) 9. On the forest road (304KB) 10. On the forest path (358KB) 11. Skoratinden (126KB) 12. Laupsnipa ahead (140KB)

360 deg. wide-angle view from Laupsnipa

13. 360 deg. wide-angle view from Laupsnipa (618KB)

50mm views

14. 50mm view from Laupsnipa (938KB) 15. 50mm view from Laupsnipa (778KB)

Other pics from Laupsnipa

16. Skoratinden region (240KB) 17. Haddal on Hareidlandet (238KB) 18. Ulsteinvik on Hareidlandet (259KB) 19. Fjord view (221KB) 20. Troll on Laupsnipa (182KB) 21. Ørsta peaks seen from Laupsnipa (293KB)

Descent & sunset

22. Descending Laupsnipa (215KB) 23. Sunset (79KB)

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