Monday 10 February 2014

Venabu 9 Feb 14 - Trabeliafjellet

Sunday: low visibility and snow. One more small peak we haven't conquered: Trabeliafjellet. After the approach on the tracks it's difficult to see where exactly we need to head off onto the wooded slopes as the top is not visible from our current position. Once on the wooded slopes, immersed in deeeeep powder snow, it takes a good hour full of laughs to get to the top edge of the woods. 
Leaving the woods, the rest of the climb is easy but the weather is putting up a fight: extremely bad visibility. On reaching what apparently seems to be the top we are forced to track back on our own tracks down to the treeline. There we take a different route back, once again great fun: weaving over, under and around the snow laiden trees, a Fantasy Forest.


An Oger





Saturday 8 February 2014

Venabu 08 Feb 14 - Veslefjellet

Back at Venabu once again for a weekend of snow fun (it's raining in Oslo). The last few times we have collected quite some peaks around Venabu but until this morning we were still missing Veslefjellet. 

First few km's were cut after which we started plodding through some fresh snow. It turned out that Veslefjellet was not all that challenging to conquer but the views were none the less great! 

view from our room at Venabu

ascent to Veslefjellet

The Summit


Ice sculptures on the summit


sunset