This quick post is just a few pictures from the top of Nordtinden, a 640m mountain near Skulsfjord where I was staying with my friends Harvey and Angelika and their dog Yukon for the past month.
Now, I am temporarily house-sitting for a researcher who works at NPI. His name is Hakon Hop and he is a biologist and an extremely experienced under-ice diver. I met Hakon in 2010 when I joined two cruises with NPI. He is going on a cruise for two weeks and his family is going to Canada to visit relatives. So this luckily Canadian is house sitting in a BEAUTIFUL house with an great view.
The house is near Tonsvik, another small town near Tromso (about 22km away). The bus connections and internet are a bit better here than in Skulsfjord, but I already notice how quiet it is without Yukon, Harvey and Angelika (probably no great fishing trips in store for me for the next two weeks).
OKAY, back to the real blog post content, my hike up Nordtinden. Saturday morning I woke up and checked the weather forecast. It was going to be overcast until 2pm and then start raining, and it would keep raining all day Saturday and Sunday. So I decided I better take Yukon out while I could stay dry.
Nordtinden is the mountain you can see in this blog post, 7th picture down (from my last longer hiking trip near Skulsfjord). (or you can just look below for the small version, the link has a bigger version).
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| Nordtinden |
I wanted to climb up this the last time, but did not, I was tired already and so I just went to the small waterfall you can see in the picture above.
So by about 10:30, off I went with Yukon. It was a nice hike, the very beginning and a short bit near the end were the steepest sections but overall a nice hike, not too difficult.
The clouds were low on Saturday, very low, sometimes they would buildup and surround me and Yukon and then quickly fade away. Luckily when I got to the top we had a bit of a break, the clouds where a bit above us and away from the views.
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