Gullfjellstoppen

It had been a while that we were talking about hiking together with Wolfger, a German guy from my Norwegian course. Time  fleeing, exams and so on made Sunday 9th the only possibility for us. I first wanted to go to a mountain in the Voss massif, like Kvitanosi (1200amsl) for instance. But I don't know those mountains yet, so a maiden hike by winter and deep snow was not a good idea. We therefore choosed Gullfjellet (987amsl), in Bergen,  30 minutes drive from the center. I planned the hike and checked the routes on the wonderful site Hiking in Hordaland (see links in the left column). It would be around 14/17km for 4/6 hours. The starting point is near a lake, around 300 meters amsl. The trails were very icy, and from 500 meters amsl the snow was quite deep. The south part called "the cairn trail" between the summit and the valley was the hardest part of the hike... it seems that most of the hikers do it in the other way. I had slept only 3 hours the night before and it was very hard for me... we crossed the path of several people but during most of the time near and at the summit we didn't see anybody. Time to head down before dusk. We took a wrong trail and did a big loop, we had Østerøy in front of us and Samnanger at right, we were supposed to have the Sørfjord right of us and Byfjellene in front. So we headed trought DEEP SNOW and smooth covered slopes before finding our way to Kinndalen, which was icy like Nifelheim... hopefully we went along a frozen stream, there were bushes surfacing, good grip, we could walk faster. The boring part of the hike was then going aaaaaall along a lake to reach the car, eat a cookie, and go back home. We reached Fantoft around 5PM, I took a nap until 9, and ate a **giant** pizza on which I added **many** cheese, ham, and an egg.