Doing a hike up in Lauvåsen

by mark | 20 Jan 2023, 7:15 a.m.

In Norway there are mountain huts you are allowed to just use. Similar to bothies in the UK, but while bothies are in very remote places to stop people doing arson on them you can get to et hytte reasonably easily. I went to the one near Fister. There is a waymarked path up the mountain behind the school and you basically keep going up. Quite steep but also only a few km and the views are wonderful. 

Here are some images. 

The hut itself. Plonked on top of a mountain. Some of them are delivered by helicopter in sections and put together. Note the frost clinging to things, it was quite cold. 

First hints of the view keeking over the shoulder of the hut. In summer I can imagine this gets rammed with people drinking 39NOK beers 

I walked up to the edge and took this. This is the village / townlet of Fister north of Stavanger. View is just so nice. At the top they have a wee book you can fill in to say "I was here". It's in a sealed metal trap thing with a pen. "Jeg kommer fra Skottland til her". 

Now looking towards the sun but still over Fister (just). This was wonderful. Very calming. Much relax. Little heat. 

The hut had a fireplace in it. We brought some logs and immolated them in the approprirate place. You'd need to get through maybe six or seven logs to fully warm the place up. We only brought three which did take the edge off but it was still cold inside. I just find it astonishing that the huts are allowed to exist; someone would wreck them in the UK.