Steg for steg : Step by step

Today, on a really warm august sunday, we once again are headig for our highest mountain in Bergen, Gullfjellet. A rather steep shortcut is walked by 8 boots on 8 feets and 4 feets of one dog. Sheeps are grazing high up in the hillside so the dog has to be kept in a line.

Longhaired black wool was really not a clothing to wear for us on this warm sommer day. May be the sheeps were waiting for the owners shears, so they could get rid of their clothing.

The sheep leaders has a bell fixed to a necklace. Then their owners can find them more easily and bring them home in a few weeks from now. And every sheep has a label with the owners symbol in the ear tip.

Some people get very excited by climbing up the steep hillside. On a top, but not the final one, a norwegian flag is blowing in the wind to show the world that a norwegian team has won the race to the top this sunday.

After some hours we are on the mountain top (987 m), and can have a look back to the fjord. From here the landscape look rather flat, but by a warning sign we are reminded abot the steep cliff just a few steps in front.

Downwards we are guided to find the right way by the big stone cairns. Today there are no problems to get down, but in foggy wether it's very nessesary to find the right way by following the cairns. Here we pass cairn number 57 looking forward to the next one , nr. 58.

In the steepest part of the hillside a small hut is built for security reasons, containing rescuing materials like a hand barrow.

Down in the valley where more people are walking their sunday trip, the path is cultivated. There has been done a lot of work for years by our ancestors to raise the standard.

Further down we continue on a better footpath for family walking. A small river is crossed by a bridge.

Now we look forward to get home for dinner and relax our bodies during the evening. Some of us also mean that we deserve something extra, did I hear Chablis? There will surely be no opportunity to do a trip like this until next year.