The forecast is for it to be nice in the morning and then rain in the afternoon, so we get an early start.
The plan is to head back up into Venjesdalen, head up to the ridge at the Litlefjellet (near where we went up to the ridge on the Romsdalhorn tour) and then head North along the ridge to traverse the Holstind and the Blånebba. David (our guide from last week) has recommended the Blånebba ridge scramble and we have descriptions of the whole thing. So off we go.
We park at the lot where the bus stops and then quickly walk the 4km up the road to get to the trail which leads up to the Litlefjellet. Follow the trail up the side of the valley to the ridge and change shoes (we've been wearing trail runners and now change into the big boots for the later scrambling) and enjoy the views. The first bit of ridge is easy, with a good use trail taking us past a few of nice camping spots, some of which are occupied. Eventually the use trail kind of peters out, so we just follow the logical line along the ridge to where the ridge narrows down and things start to get steep. Here we pick the use trail back up. It's 1:50 to this point. After a quick snack, we start our way up.
The scrambling up to the Holstind is route-finding intensive (lots of reading the terrain to figure out where to go next) and with some bad rock quality moments (also some good rock quality moments!), but quite fun. It's just a joy to move in this kind of terrain. Once we get up top we stop to enjoy the views, eat some more, and check out the wall of the Blånebba looming ahead.
A use trail (it's back again!) leads us along the ridge, with a bit of down-climbing, to the face of Blånebba. Here the rock quality is a lot better, the route finding is pretty straightforward, and there are some really good moments of exposure. Pure ridge fun. It's over all too soon. Total time on the ridges, including the food break, was 2:20.
We enjoy the views for a bit and then head over to the main peak (this is easily done purely on rock... when we were there last week there was a bunch of snow here, so we've carried the ice axes with us for basically nothing) and follow the broad ridge to the trail which leads back down to the parking lot. Now we also start seeing other people again; we haven't seen anyone else since the the folks camping around the Litlefjellet.
The trail down to the car is easy (we've done it before in the other direction) and enjoyable. We don't push the pace, do another food break along the way, and just enjoy the landscape and nice weather until we're back at the car.
Stats: 6:30, 13.8km, 1170m up and down.
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