Nordåsen & Panorama Viewpoint Hike

Today we woke up to more overcast, rainy skies. Sunrise is so late here now! It didn’t come up until 7:30 so it was still really dark when we woke up! I also realized the light is more like normal - it doesn’t feel like it is super late/early all the time. No more sunrise/sunset all day. And no more hour after sunset still being able to walk around outside without a light. We headed off to what I planned for our big hike today and as we got closer it started raining really hard! I was like I do not want to wander in the pouring rain…but then we went through a tunnel and no more rain on the other side! So off at went.

I had planned on just walking to the Panorama viewpoint near Mosjøen, but the map at the trailhead showed the Nordåsen viewpoint wasn’t that much to add to the hike so we made a big loop to go to both of them.

First we ended up Nordåsen which had lovely views over the fjord and a big tower on top (and an open shelter to sit in to get out of the wind!). The walk there was pretty easy, a bit muddy but not bad. The way at took over to Panorama was a complete muddy/watery mess! This was the worst trail for that we have been on this whole time! My feet/shoes got so wet and after a while I was kind of like oh well! No use really trying to go out of our way to not step in the water now! I did step in some deeper mud like halfway up my shoes once or twice too, but eh. They were already soaked. The grass and stuff was very wet too so that washed the mud off by the time we got back to the car. There were some wooden boards through the worst bits, but they were so slippery! So wet so you had to be really careful walking on them.

Panorama viewpoint was also very nice! And it was sunny when we got there! So took a break and put my feet in the sun to dry off a little bit until it started lightly raining and we decided to move on.

On the way back to the car we took a much better trail! Still muddy, but nowhere near as bad as the second trail! And found some fun fungus! It was a pretty nice walk and nice getting up in the mountains again and seeing out!

(I kept meaning to post the birds from the find the birds in the rocks photos from forever ago and I finally remembered! So the last two photos are that from the Tyven Hike post)Read more