{"id":287,"date":"2019-12-05T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/?post_type=artikler&p=1291"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:14:31","slug":"oksskolten-is-northern-norways-highest-mountain","status":"publish","type":"aktiviteter","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/aktiviteter\/oksskolten-is-northern-norways-highest-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Oksskolten is Northern Norway’s Highest Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tAt a height of 1,916 metres (6,286 feet), Oksskolten is the highest mountain in Northern Norway. It takes between 10 and 12 hours to get up and down, and the reward is the view from Vega to Lofotodden and far into Sweden. \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

On the first Sunday in September, we hiked up Oksskolten. The peaks were shrouded in fog, and the north wind made it chilly. However, the weather forecast was quite good, and we really wanted to do it. We stayed overnight in the Kjensvasshytta cabin beside Kjennsvatn lake, about 500 metres (1,640 feet) above sea level, which you can get to in the summer season on a gravel road from Umbukta near Mo i Rana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You climb through the forest and crunch across the glacier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first hour of ascent was through fairly steep mountain forest, and it took us an hour to reach Austisen, part of the Okstindbreen glacier. So late in the season, the glacier is blue-tinted, and full of stones and gravel. We put on our crampons and followed our guide as he criss-crossed the glacier. You are recommended to rope up, but it’s easy to see which way to go. The ice splinters under your feet, and the cracks run like blue scars through the ice. We got all the way across in quarter of an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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