
Kinga, Michael and Pearl.


Tyre in her pack.

Starting up, there were low bushes and stunted birch trees.


The jagged edge of the far mountains over the edge of the nearest hill.


After climbing about 20 minutes, we came to a little lake.


Kinga was taking a photo of a frog in the water.

Annette and Tyre.


Piles of rocks are used as markers along the trail.




Though the ground becomes very rocky and mossy the higher you climb, there are also varieties of ground cover, including those that have berries--these are blueberries, which will become blue in late summer. Others include tyttebaer and cloudberries.



In the far distance, the "low" land is Tromsoya (Tromsø Island).



This is an inlet that opens to the Norwegian Sea, which is seen in the distance (you may be able to see it better in some of the photos below).






The "top" (from a distance).

On the top is a pile of stones with satchels attached which contain books to sign, to show that you made it to the top. Mike and I signed, using our birth states--he wrote NewYork, and I wrote Modoc, Indiana. I thought it unlikely that there would be another from Modoc.

These rings are for salmon farming. They are about 200 yards across.

The organic chemists at the top!


A village below.








These are the flowers of cloudberry plants that grow close to the ground.

After lunch and a bit of lounging and picture-taking, we started back down. The highway can be seen in the distance.



On June 30, Michael's supervisor in the organic chemistry department, Annette, drove us and two other students (Kinga from Poland, and "Pearl" from Hong Kong (Pearl is an anglicized version of her Chinese name) to the neighboring island, Kvaloya ("Whale Island") and led us on a trek up a mountain. Admittedly, it was what is termed an "easy" climb, but still, it was a climb. It took us about 2½ hours to make it to the top (we did stop to take photos--and a few rests). We were accompanied by Annette's dog Tyre (pronounced something like "tier-ra"), who carried up our lunches in a pack that was strapped around her middle. We took lots of photos, and I left them in the order we took them, so if you start from the top, that is the beginning.
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