Very Easy
A 661-metre summit above Haukås near Strandebarm on the north shore of Hardangerfjorden. The name means Hawk Mountain. The round trip is about 6.3 kilometres with 400 metres of elevation gain, taking two and a half to three hours. From Strandebarm, follow the road to Haukås, then take the toll road and park near the Holsetervegen sign. Follow Holsetervegen for 1.7 kilometres, then turn left at the trail sign. The path is marked with red T blazes. The summit cairn provides views over Strandebarmsbukta and toward the larger massifs of Tveitakvitingen and Vesoldo.
The trail features a literary art installation connected to Jon Fosse, born in 1959 near Strandebarm and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." Students from Strandebarm School made sheep sculptures placed along the trail, each carrying text that together compose Fosse's piece Kvar vår det same, Every Spring the Same. Walking the trail is walking through the landscape that shaped one of the 21st century's most important literary voices. Fosse's work draws heavily on the fjord landscape, isolation, and rhythms of western Norwegian rural life.
From the trail, hikers can spot up to ten abandoned støler, mountain summer farms, where livestock was driven to high pastures each summer in a practice now almost entirely gone. Each ruin is a ghost of a self-sufficient agricultural economy that sustained fjord communities for centuries. The mountain sits tucked between two larger neighbours, modest in height but offering surprisingly good views precisely because of the dramatic peaks flanking it.
The trail features a literary art installation connected to Jon Fosse, born in 1959 near Strandebarm and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." Students from Strandebarm School made sheep sculptures placed along the trail, each carrying text that together compose Fosse's piece Kvar vår det same, Every Spring the Same. Walking the trail is walking through the landscape that shaped one of the 21st century's most important literary voices. Fosse's work draws heavily on the fjord landscape, isolation, and rhythms of western Norwegian rural life.
From the trail, hikers can spot up to ten abandoned støler, mountain summer farms, where livestock was driven to high pastures each summer in a practice now almost entirely gone. Each ruin is a ghost of a self-sufficient agricultural economy that sustained fjord communities for centuries. The mountain sits tucked between two larger neighbours, modest in height but offering surprisingly good views precisely because of the dramatic peaks flanking it.
