To heaven and back (hike to Himmeltinden)

Day 26: Uttakleiv-Eggum (32 km)

Today, I only wanted to cycle half a day and go for a hike in the morning. Lofoten’s highest peak, Himmeltinden (himmel = sky/heaven) was located close to the beach where we camped. In order to avoid too many tourists, we left already at eight o’clock. We cycled one kilometre to where the trail started and hiked from there.

The higher we got, the greater the view became. We first came to one summit called Fehammaren (830 m). From here, we actually had the best view over Haukland Beach where we had spent the night, and Uttakleiv beach which was very close. After some photo shooting here, we continued towards Himmeltinden. There is a radar station on the main summit, so we only hiked up to the “false” summit which is 931 metres high. From here we had a great 360 degrees view.

The hike back down was actually a bit harder than the way up because the trail was a bit slippery. But we came back around noon, snacked and relaxed a bit, before we took down our tents and continued by bike towards Eggum.

This was only a 32 kilometres’ ride. At Eggum, we found another beautiful beach with white sand. We sat up our tents right on the beach, and we are almost alone here. There is only one other tent quite far away. The beach is on the north side and open to the west, so we will have the sun here almost all night.

We bought a disposable grill and had a barbecue on the beach. We were almost done when a small boat approached the beach. A father had been fishing with his two sons. They had caught a lot of small pollack and asked if we wanted some. So we took two of them and had another course – very tasty.

Tomorrow, our plan is to continue to Henningsvær and maybe Svolvær.