awesome

Today, I went on a hike with Mari to check out a mountain cabin where she will celebrate her birthday with some friends. The weather was miserable but this did not matter after the shoes were soaked.

We passed Rundemanen (mountain top #3) and wandered around Øvre Jordalsvatne without view. We came to the cabin and met two men, who were fixing up the place. We got coffee and they started to talk about the lack of summer, hiking in the mountains around Bergen and gardening. And then one of them suddenly described western Norway in three words: stein, skog og ugress (stone, woods and weed).

Some weeks ago I thought this is the last day of skiing before the summer. But it turned out I was wrong, because last week the summer ski center on the Folgafonna glacier opened. And there we went.

After driving through the beautiful Hardanger we arrived at the foot of the glacier. There is so much snow, that the road has at least 3m snow on each side. The weather was sunny, foggy and snowy and you could feel the cold icy air from the glacier when skiing down.

On the way home we missed the ferry by 2 minutes (despite the rally), and spent some time botanizing (got crash course in mosses) and had soft ice.

Takk for en kjempefin tur Mari!