Ørnfløya hike

Today we had a ferry to catch, and when planning the trip I thought the first one was at 2pm. I didn’t have much planned for the morning, but I was saving exploring the last little town for today as there wasn’t much else to do…well last night I went to double check the ferry times and there was a ferry at 9:45! I thought that would be too early if we wanted to spy on the town and catch it as we camped about 40 min away from the town and the town is 20 min away from the ferry…and we usually get going like 8:30/9. so when I woke up at 7 and Raymond was already awake I said we could get going quickly, put our tea in our travel mugs instead of drinking it now and head out to try and catch the early ferry if we want, so that is what we did. And I am so glad we did! We were off by 7:30! So quick! Waiting for the 2pm ferry would have been a lot.

We were driving to the town and could see storms all around, and there was some snow on the side of the road in places! To get to the small town we turned off the main road and started heading up over a pass and the road super quickly turned from wet to slush to snow & ice! Like the photo is the slush road and we kept going and when it got to snow and ice Raymond was like we need to turn around. I could see him gripping the steering wheel trying to keep it straight and not go off the side of the road so yeah, probably a good idea. So we turned around and went to the ferry dock to wait for the ferry.

The ferry was pretty rocky for some reason even though the water didn’t look that bad! But it was a quick ride and it looked like we were going to go through a storm, but we didn’t. The other side was a much nicer day! Sunny and gorgeous, but still freezing cold.

First up was a hike up Ørnfløya - it is only like 100m high so it was a nice, quick, easy hike. The views were amazing! All these snow covered mountains surrounding us on the way up, then the island of Sommarøy from the top! So nice! Really there will be a lot of photos of these mountains from today as we didn’t go far so they are always there! But it was gorgeous!Baca lagi