Escape from boredom

Went to visit Kåre yesterday, and since I could leave Anders behind at my fathers place I used my bike. Thanks to Facebook connecting people, I got company at Sjonfjellet. My classmate from the three last years of primary school, Torfinn, took his bike out for a ride and met me there, so Facebook is not always a waste of time. High quality time I must say, got to catch up the last twenty years on our bikes, as good as it gets! Had a short stop at another classmate from primary school, Magne, as well.

When riding back today the weather was as nice as it can get, sun from a clear blue sky. Had a very nice ride, stopped to talk with tourists, tried an alternative route outside the tunnel at Sjonfjellet, stopped to take pictures. All in all, just enjoyed myself.

Just before Utskarpen, Ranfjorden, and at the far end Valbogen, my destination today.

View towards Strandtindan, hope to go there next year with my bike. It should be possible to ride the bike almost all the way to the top without stepping out of your pedals.

Going up Sjonfjellet I wanted to avoid the tunnel. After a bit of searching I found the old road outside. About 1 kilometer of nice gravel road.

On the top of Sjonfjellet, the view towards Træna.

Visting my grandparents at Båsmoen I noticed the road, or I guess track or path is more correct. Anyhow, I could not resist the urge to go out and enjoy the nice weather so when Anders went to sleep I headed up towards Skillevollen. Quite sure I have not been there in almost twenty years so it was a tough reunion. Did not manage to bike all the way, but almost…need to be a bit more fit to make it, but I stopped just about 30 meters below where I took the first picture.

At the top, sweat as h…

Sportstracker, not a surprise, the “slow”-point is in the steepest part of the hill, but note, I talked to two women walking down when I had to get of the bike.

But note, vacation is also enjoying the local specialties… 🙂

Together with Bendik and two of his colleagues we did went with our bikes the track to Raumerrittet http://www.raumerrittet.no/. I spent 6 hours and 45 minutes out today from when I left home until I was back. Very varm today so I’m very tired now.

Here we stopped to take a bath nearby Hakkim

Today I wanted to go from Mosjøen, via Herringen over the mountain to Tuven and Bleikvasslia. Down to Korgen, and then over Korgfjellet, to Elsfjorden and back to Mosjøen. I started out in very nice weather with my mountain bike, two bottles of lemonade and some peanuts.

This is the planned route, where the very bad pink line shows the route where it is road, both tarmac and gravel. Then the red dotted line connecting the pink line indicates that this is a path and even “notrack”, in fact most of the red line indicates just an old route used many years ago between Vefsn and Bleikvasslia. The path is long gone, and I could not find any track.

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After having missed the actual track several times, having to cross the river with my bike, walking in long gras, being stiched by mosquitos, wasps and such I turned back home after three hours. Not being all sure about where to go, and realzing that I would spend at least another five hours, I went back the same way. Managed to cut down the time with almost an hour when going back. When at home I notiched that I had lost my bike computer and one of the bottles (the full one, leaving me with no water the last hour). At one time right before I decided to go home I fell, at the same time turning the bar which made me hit the end of it with my chest. That was for sure not good at all, in fact I’m curretly not able to lift my son Anders without feeling pain. I must admit I was immediatly a bit scared, so I laid down for about a minute.

Various pictures from the ride up to Almdalshola and Stillvassdalen.

No track at all, but I managed to find it on the other side of the river.

A bit further up, facing down the river. I pushed my bike on the track here, did not want to stumble and fall down towards the river. But it was only about 3-400 meters which I needed to walk up to Almdalshola. The rest of the path was “bikeable”

I walked over here, about three-four meters down to the river, and I was not even sure if the brigde would carry me 🙂

The cabin at Almdalshola, very nice.

From here, no track. I went all the way up before I turned and headed back home.

I won’t try this again with my bike, but I would consider going to Almdalshola several times with my bike. Without rain for a couple of days the singletrack is quite fun.