Today’s walk took the three of us up quite a steep climb to where there was a large pine tree on the top of a hill, with an elevation of about 120 meters above sea level. The three of us were agreed that it was nice to do the walk once, but it wasn’t interesting enough to do more than once.
One of the things that I appreciate about a walk in the woods, is getting to a place where I can get a good view, preferably over water. We had a lovely sunny day, so there should have been some good views, if there weren’t so many trees.
We parked the car near the main road between Vangshylla and Mosvik and then went into the woods and immediately began to climb up a path which is narrow, but dry.
This is looking back the way we came and on the right you can see the slope that we have zigzagged up.Looking uphill. My walking companions have already disappeared around the corner.This section of the trail has less slope, but we are still gently climbing. Note on the tree to the right two different methods of marking trails: the red blotch of paint and the red and white plastic tie.The forest was very pleasant to walk through on a sunny day, though we did get quite warm on the steep sections.We headed off to the left to the big pine tree (Storfurua).
I had read in the local newspaper that this trail that we were following today was relatively new and this is the first time that it has been on the list of Inderøy walks. As we climbed higher there were indications of improvements to the trail to make it easier to climb.
Flat stones had been placed strategically to make steps in the hillside. Somebody had done some work here to make access easier.Then there was a section with a very heavy rope so that one could pull oneself up the slope. I wouldn’t want to do this part of the trail just after a rainfall.Though one could glimpse Trondheim Fjord through the trees, there wasn’t really much view with such tall trees.The goal of our walk ended at a large pine tree. But there was no particular view out over the fjord.The view was looking up at the tree. I have large pine trees in my yard, and though this one might be taller and bigger, I wasn’t impressed at this being the goal of the walk, especially after the very steep climb. But that is my personal likes for a walk.
The information about the walk indicated that one could continue along the marked path and do a circle tour back to one’s car, partially on a road. I didn’t really want to go down the steep parts that we had come up so we continued onwards.
The red plastic stick seemed out of place in the woods. We normally have these along the roads in the winter so that drivers and snow plows know where the edge of the pavement is. However this picture also shows what the vegetation is like in this area.Here is where the path we have come along, seen straight ahead, meets a gravel road. We went back to the car by going down this road to the right in the picture.Finally, a view of the fjord, but we are back to the busy paved car road and we were shortly back to our car.
We used about an hour for this walk. It was listed as 3 km, round trip, but when sections were such steep climbs, we don’t walk very quickly. Even the gravel road down to sea level was steep.
We got the exercise we wanted but we were glad to sit down when we got to the car. Next week will be a different walk.
