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Walking at Sørøya - Tarhalsen

Walking at Sørøya - Tarhalsen Photo: Hammerfest Turist AS Walking at Sørøya - Tarhalsen Photo: Alvin Vaséli Walking at Sørøya - Tarhalsen Photo: Hammerfest Turist AS
Walking at Sørøya - Tarhalsen Photo: Hammerfest Turist AS
Walking at Sørøya - Tarhalsen Photo: Alvin Vaséli
Walking at Sørøya - Tarhalsen Photo: Hammerfest Turist AS

Hike facts

Effort level
  • Challenging
Duration
  • 8 hours
Landscape
  • Coast
Season:
June - August

Contact information

Description

The old lighthouse path winds down the mountainside. Without a handrail to grip it is easy to slide down the steep mountainside or fall into the foaming sea. The path winds its way down to Tarhalsskaret at the very bottom by the sea and continues further towards Tarhalsen.

Categories

  • Hiking Hiking

Hours

Where: Hammerfest / Sørøya
6/1/2011 - 8/31/2011
Mon - Sun

Facilities

  • Season

    • august
    • july
    • june
  • Nature and terrain

    • hilly
    • steep
    • difference in altitude
    • near sea/ocean
    • Coast
  • Grading

    • challenging
  • Duration

    • 8 hours

Equipment and safety

Please follow these safety tips when you go hiking in Norway.

1. Be prepared
Be sufficiently experienced, fit and equipped for your intended trip.

2. Leave word of your route
Many cabins, hotels and other lodgings have tour notification boxes in which you may put a written notice of your planned route

3. Be weather-wise
You should always be alert to forecasts of bad weather, yet not rely completely on forecasts of good weather.

4. Be equipped for bad weather and frost
Always take a rucksack and proper mountain gear.

5. Learn from the locals
Local people can often tell you about avalanche trails, wind and snow conditions, and the safest routes.

6. Use a map and compass
Always have and know how to use a map and compass.

7. Do not go solo
If you venture out alone, there is nobody to give you first aid or notify a rescue service in an emergency.

8. Turn back in time - sensible retreat is no disgrace
If conditions deteriorate so much that you doubt you can attain your goal, turn around and return.

9. Conserve energy and build a snow shelter if necessary
The stronger the wind, the tougher the walking/skiing. Suit your speed to the weakest member of the party.

Find more detailed safety tips in the Norwegian Mountain Code.

 

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