Today, after a mere 15 months in Norway, I climbed my first mountain.  When I say climbed it was more of a walk really. With snowshoes on. 

Actually when I say walk, if the truth be known, it was more of a stagger as I puked my breakfast up.

And I cheated.  I got the ski lift up the first 350m.

But in all fairness it was still over 500 vertical in less than 2km horizontal.  And I'm feeling pleased with myself, whilst my legs hate me.

Then I snowboarded all the way down and life was good again.

The mountain is called Auskjeret, is 1340m high and is the 19th highest peak in the Stordal Kommune in the Møre og Romsdal County.

http://www.westcoastpeaks.com/Peaks/sauskjeret.html

When we set off the weather was fantastic, blue sky with not a cloud in sight. However by the time I stumbled the last few yards it had started to snow so my photo's are rubbish :-( Hopefully I'm get some better ones from Arngeir in the next day or so.