Posts Tagged ‘Sørøya’
Sørøya – Rock Ptarmigan
Sørøya has a large amount of Ptarmigans (Lagopus) leaving on the island all the year. Ptarmigan is a small bird in the groose family which is famous for its good meat.
Read more August 20th, 2011 in Birds, Nature, Photos
Sørøya – Ytterelvvatnan
One night we had our basecamp at Ytterelvvatnan, which are two small lakes connected with a small river. As mentioned on another photo, the weather was very very nice during the whole trip!
Read more August 18th, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, Photos
Sørøya – Fishing
We stopped by a small lake one night, where we spent some extra hours fishing. Some of us was more into it, than others…
Read more August 16th, 2011 in Action, Nature, People, Photos
Sørøya – Cooking
The food on a mountain trip is very importing. Gunnbjørg is cooking the dinner an evening on Sørøya. If I’m not wrong the menu this night was tikka masala.
Read more August 14th, 2011 in Nature, People, Photos
Sørøya – Bølestraumen
We passed Bølestraumen the second day of walking on Sørøya. In the back you see Sandviknesset.
Read more August 12th, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, Photos
Sørøya – Walkers
Andreas and Egil walking on the northern side of Kanonvatnet, the place we had our first basecamp on Sørøya.
Read more August 10th, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, People, Photos
Sørøya – Flowering Water
We passed this small water when we left Kanonvatnet the secdond morning of our trip at Sørøya. Even though Sørøya is an island very far up north in Norway, with hard and rough climate and weather, there are much life present during the summer months.
Read more August 8th, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, Photos
Sørøya – Kanonvatnet
The first night we camped at Kanonvatnet. This photo is taken a few minutes past midnight, right before I sled into the sleeping bag.
Read more August 6th, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, Photos
Sørøya – Photographer
This photo is taken on the top of Inneroksen, where Egil did some photo shooting of the landscape and the small flowers. In the back you see Borkfjellet.
Read more August 4th, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, People, Photos
Sørøya – Indre Oksevika
The first day at Sørøya we travelled to a nice and special mountain top called Inneroksen (395 meters above sea level). At the foot on the north-west side of Inneroksen lies Indre Oksevika, which is in the bottom on this photo.
Read more August 2nd, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, Photos
Sørøya – Dønnesfjorden #4
On this photo you see the most inner part of Dønnesfjorden. Still as fabulous as on the three previous photos See also Sørøya #1 Sørøya #2
Read more August 1st, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, People, Photos
Sørøya – Dønnesfjorden #3
This is also more or less the same view as the two other photos from Sørøya, but now then angle is a bit different. In this photo you see the small settlement in Dønnesfjorden. The settlement consists of a few houses and a church, and you see them far out to the right on the [...]
Read more July 31st, 2011 in Landscape, Nature, Photos
