Lofoten islands. Volandstind mount 547m. Norway. January – 2019
Дата 1 February 2019

 

 

This is our second attempt.
Yesterday we saw only few meters before us. And changed the program.
Today must be sunny day !

Volandstind is sharp mountain dominated up the two famous round bridges. Its completely impossible ascent from the fjord side and its gentle ascent from the back.

In summer time this trek marked as Easy. For winter its can be very challenge.

We left our car near cod driers.
And put on our snowshoes immediately.

Our pass is near the electrical pillars and after 9 th we need to turn right and get to the top.

First 5 pillars we are in deep snow. No trail, no way. Just GPS trek. Then little bit on the stones. We putted on our crampons, because snowshoes became useless.

Day was magic. One mountain was in pink. Another in blue and pink. Little bit turquoise and deep blue on horizon.

Step by step. After 7th pillar i changed crampons because the snow was very deep here. I turned, and after 10 minutes rich the last part of ascent – sharp pinnacle covered with mass of stones and snow. 900 m more …

Edge was dangerous, because of snow. So i walked slowly between the stones. Snow was very deep sometimes.

The picture around was so brilliant and multicolored! I never saw before such a lot of different colors together! And the sun! First during our stay on Lofotens we saw the sun! Fjord below us became golden orange color! Another fjord blinked unnormal blue with terracotta and red.

Slope was dangerous. It was too steep. If something happen, we will slip dawn. We have no ice axe. No ropes. And during winter ascent i think its necessary.

We rich the summit after 2,5 hours of ascent. Summit is the group of pinnacles. From last one must be panoramic view on bridges, ocean and fjord. But it was so steep here and dangerous that we decided to stop.

Ocean deep blue and all panorama killed us completely! It was like in picture! We cannot stop make photos and asked each other- is it reality? Is it not a dream? Its became even warm. Also first time….

It was time to go dawn before the sunset, before the deep blue.

By the way back I put on crampons and step by step, very carefully get dawn. It was big pleasure walk with this view!

On the snow i changed again crampons on snowshoes. It was right decision! My husband and my friends were lazy. They paid for this difficult walking in deep snow.  I was much faster.

All our round trip was 5 hours.  It’s with 30 min on the summit. At summer time it can be much faster. But you never see such a colors in summer time!

 

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