Norwegian Mountains, Møre og RomsdalLiafjellet from Kleivane, Oct 11 2008Back to the main Liafjellet page The sole purpose of this hike was to verify my suspicion about Liafjellet's east top NOT being higher than the west top, opposite of what the Økonomisk Kartverk map says. The east top is supposed to be 533,2m, while the east top is only 528,34m. From distance, the east top looks higher. From the east top, the west tops looks higher, and from the west top, the east top looks higher. What a mess. When I measured with GPS in 2006, the west top seemed higher. I know what you're thinking. Don't! Height does matter.. I chose to hike from Kleivane, like i did back in 2006. This time I wanted to get a GPS track from the path. In 2006, I was wandering around in the snowy forest. Below the summit, I met a Dutch couple (living in Norway), on their way down. We chatted for a while. They understood that I enjoyed the mountains and asked if I had a web-site. The camera in my hand might have been the clue they needed to ask the question. I said yes, and gave them the name of my site. It turned out that they knew it already, and well too - it seemed. So - hello again to the Dutchies, in case you read this.. I reached the cairn on Liafjellet 12:07pm, approx. 50 minutes after leaving the car. I let the GPS measure the elevation for a while (on top of the small cairn), and read 528m as average after a 5-minute period. I then moved on to the east top and repeated the procedure. The GPS read 527m (on the ground), and I concluded that 533m couldn't be correct. There is not even a cairn on the east top to warrant a precision with a decimal. Nevertheless, I'll be using the official map height for now. Upon descent, I took a short-cut down the forest, a direct route towards the car. Short-cuts can be very nice, and I enjoyed the view of a black grouse and a deer. I was back at the car 1h:45m after leaving it. |
The pictures were taken with a Canon EOS 300D + Canon EF-S 17-85mm IS USM F 4-5.6
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