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Skaland , fjord area, coastal area

Husfjellet - Top tour for all with fjord view

Husfjellet - Top tour for all with fjord view Photo: Frank Husselage
Husfjellet - Top tour for all with fjord view Photo: Frank Husselage

Hike facts

Effort level
  • Medium
Duration
  • 5 hours
Landscape
  • Coast
  • Fjord

Contact information

Description

Through luxuriant vegetation, then scree and great mountain terrain over the timber line, you reach a pass high diving into Steinfjorden. From where you have fantastic view to the most pronounced cliffs on Senja, Okshornan.

On the other side you have the most beautiful sight over the caribbean-coloured and idyllic fjord called Bergsfjorden, and all the way out to Andenes and the endless horizon. From the top of Husfjellet, you can choose to return the same way you arrived, or continue to ”the end” – Bøvær - and it´s 700m long sandy beach facing the raw Atlantic ocean.

From Bøvær you can walk along the waterside with sandy beaches, bare rocks and pebbles or follow the road twisting its ways along the shoreline.

Mountain guide on request. During summer there might be small flies and midge following you on the trip. Use of hat with net and insect spray can help.

Categories

  • Hiking Hiking

Facilities

  • Classification

    • Marked trails with red Ts
  • Grading

    • medium
  • Special

    • coastal area
    • fjord area
  • Duration

    • 5 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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