Mountain Tour 2 Jotunheimen 2003

 

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Mountain tour in Jotunheimen

23 - 26 august 2003

Gjendesheim, Glitterheim, Spiterstulen, Leirvassbu,

Olavsbu, Gjendebu, Memurubu

Og båten tilbake til Gjendesheim

 

 

 

 

Cabins :

Spiterstulen

Glitterheim

Memurubu

Gjendebu

Olavsbu

Leirvassbu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jotunheimen,

Watching Gjende and Besseggen

 

Jotunheimen

 

 

Jotunheimen. There are two hikers who go before me, who look beyond the nice view of Høgvagtjønnen and Langvatnet

 

Jotunheimen

 

 

 

 

 

Jotunheimen,

Watching Gjende and Besseggen

Jotunheimen

 

 

 

 

Jotunheimen, Veobreen

jotunheimen

 

 

 

 

Parked the car on Gjendesheim.

Day. 1

Started at 10:00 am.

Followed the path that went to Besseggen a piece before I took off against Glitterheim.

It was a little cold, but I did me good because I had bought a new Bergan mountain dress on Beitostølen.

The trail went past Bessvatn and towards Russvassbu.

Had to go over hang bridge there.

Russvassbu was a nice place. Ate packed lunch there.

The trail went along Russ lake up in the mountains.

By Tjørnholåa it was a new swing bridge. Here the trail is divided into two parts.

A trail went over Tjørnholtjørna and down to Glitterheim.

It looked pretty difficult out. The 400 m up and then down to Glitterheim.

The other path I followed to Hestelægerhø. Pretty good rise there, too.

Before I went up against Hestelægerhø, I went to the separate path toward Memurubu.

From Hestelægerhø continued down the path to Glitterheim.

Here I got me a bed for the night. Ate dinner here also.


Day. 2

The day after I went on to Spiterstulen. Do not over Glittertind.

Talking with someone who had gone over there from Spiterstulen. They had used spikes when it was pretty smooth on top.

The path to Spiterstulen is OK. Pretty much stone by Veslegluptjørnene.

If one has good weather, it is excellent view of the Galhøpiggen and Stygg Breen before going down to Spiterstulen.

So a great reindeer bow down by Spiterstulen. It was entirely up to the road.

Acted a little before I went.

Went up Visdalen before I took off against Leirvassbu.

Had to go up against Visbreen to get over the river. It was pretty much water.

The last piece to Kyrkjetjøna I was very tired.

Beat up the tent by Kyrkjeglupen. Just across the Kyrkja.

The weather hold up fine and the temperature was OK.

Lie on the surface in the sun before it disappeared behind the mountains.

Day. 3

Also had the sun in the tent quite early in the morning so that it dried up.

After breakfast I went to Leirvassbu, here I borrowed a phone, so I did call home.

Was so down Høgvaglura against Langvatn.

Wade here over the river and went up against Raudalsbandet.

It was pretty steep up there.

From the top path was straight down to Olavsbu.

Was going to turn me down there, but decided to proceed against Gjendebu.

There are a lot of stone the first hour of the path toward Gjendebu. After about. one hour, it is a party that is like going on an autostrada. Flat and evenly.

It started to rain a little.

So some wonderful rain arcs against Besseggen.

I was on Gjendebu about. at 20.08, and I got me a room and dinner.

Ate with a lot of nice people.

Gjendebu is a great place.

Day. 4

Next morning, it was to continue to Memurubu.

Large Ådalen I went up Storå vally and took off towards Memurubu.

It was a very hard climb up to Memurutunga.

Known the long trip from the previous day in the legs.

Fell to Memurudalen and followed the river down to Memurubu.

Here I took the boat back to Gjendesheim.

It had been a great trip and the weather had been very good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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