Liatjønna and Melting Lake, Mosvik

I haven’t been writing many blogs this summer as most of the walks I have taken, I have written about before. But today, my husband and I went to a little lake, Liatjønna, that has a short walk part way around it and then we decided to go for a longer walk along the gravel road that gives access to this little lake but also continues for about 3 kilometers.

When my husband asked me where I wanted to go walking this Sunday, I suggested somewhere the sun was shining. In November, the daylight comes late (today sunrise was at 8:12) and leaves early (today sunset was at 15:45). With only about 7 hours of daylight, getting some sunshine becomes important. After checking my weather app on my phone, we headed to Mosvik and the little lake, Liatjønna, that you see in the picture above.

As you can see from the picture, there was a little bit of blue sky, some clouds, but very little direct sunshine. The sun does not rise very high in the sky at this time of year, but at least it felt a bit bright. There was no wind and about 5 degrees Celsius. There is a gravel path about three quarters of the way around the lake, but you have to come back the same way. In places the path was quite damp as we have had lots of rain lately, and I am sure they get more rain up here in the hills of Mosvik than we get down by the fjord.

It is now fall/autumn and nature reflects the time of year. Deciduous trees have lost their leaves. Coniferous trees are still green. In the foreground you will see small pine trees and in the distance there are primarily spruce trees. Between me and the lake there is swampland and most of the grasses growing there have turned brown.

When we got back to the car, we felt that we hadn’t walked enough and wanted to walk more as it was pleasant to be out of the house and out in the fresh air. So we chose to just walk along the gravel road that goes across the swampy areas, through some forest and out along a narrow peninsula that juts out into the bigger lake, Melting Lake.

Melting Lake is a large lake with a very irregular shape. We are actually walking along a little peninsula that juts out into the lake and though we never saw the lake on both sides of us at the same time, we did see it occasionally on the other side as well. As you can see in the picture above, the sky is quite cloudy and though the far side of the lake is in brighter light, we are walking in a relatively dark area.

Melting Lake is a regulated lake and is used to make electricity for our region. As you can see in the picture above, there is quite a shoreline, showing that, in spite of a lot of rain all summer, the water is being used to produce electricity.

We walked about 2 km along the gravel road, then decided that we were half tired, so turned around and headed back to the car where a thermos of coffee and two mugs were waiting for us. As we headed back, we met a couple with a dog, and a van passed us going back to the road. We weren’t the only ones out on a Sunday morning.

We were out of the house for over 2 hours and probably were walking for about one and a half hours. It was a walk I would do another time. Walking around the little lake, there was noise from the road that goes close by, but once we were walking on the gravel road, we quickly got away from traffic noise. It was a pleasant Sunday walk.