This is the second blog entry related to Saturday, July 28. After settling in at the house, we went on a short but steep hike to the top of a peak called LitleFjellet. It is only a 0.8 km hike although it is entirely clambering uphill. It took about 20 minutes (and a fair bit of huffing and puffing for me) to get to the top. After reaching the top, Leon said, “Getting here was so easy it almost feels like you’re cheating.” Later we found a quote online describing the hike that says the same thing a bit more eloquently 🙂
“Never has a human achieved so much by putting so little effort into it.” – Mountaineer and philosopher Arne Næss senior on his visit to Litlefjellet
Looking down in one direction you could see the harbor of Ă…ndalsnes and the fjord, in another you could see the ragged edge of the top of the Trollsteigen (Troll’s wall) and in the direction we’d come from were more mountains, hardly less dramatic. The pictures of the view from the top do it more justice than if I try to describe it.
At the top the wind was really strong, making it chilly, and it started to rain. Not only did we not bring jackets since it had been 85+ degrees at the house, we were also quite worried about doing the steep rocky/muddy descent in the rain. Luckily it only rained about 5 minutes. Here is a shot of Megan on a particularly steep part of the descent.
After dinner we drove to the Ă…ndalsnes harbor to see the early part of the sunset (9:45pm, below). Then we came back to the farmhouse and noticed that what we thought was just a chicken coop is actually also the coop of 2-3 peacocks! So that’s what was making all the noisy squawks we’d been hearing earlier! Luckily they quieted down at night even though it was still light out.
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