Stakkslettbua

Another weekend, another trip!  This weekend I was out at Stakkslettbua, a cabin owned by the Sports Center at NTNU (called NTNUI).  I went with the student group from St. Olav's Catholic Church.  It was an interesting trip, and it was neat to be off the beaten path.  I feel I've spoiled myself with the trip to Geiranger, though.  Nothing quite matches that.

There were no paths to the cabin, so we hiked across about 1.5km of marshy terrain to get there.  This would've been fine, but we weren't really told about it until we had arrived.  We had to carry plastic grocery bags of food plus whatever bag we had packed for ourselves (not knowing how far or through what we'd be hiking), and that was a little frustrating.  Basically, it felt like the whole thing operated on an every-man-for-himself basis.  There were organizers, but no one seemed to take responsibility for distributing information or any serious degree of logistical planning.  But I should've seen it coming; that seems to be the norm here.

But on to the good stuff!  We arrived Saturday and hiked to the cabin, then a few of us hiked on to an 850m peak.  From there we could see a peak just over 1000m, so we hiked there!

Nice terrain.  Site form one of the peaks we climbed

Finally we made it back to the cabin hungry and exhausted to find that cooking pasta for 14 on a woodfire stove isn't as simple as it is on a gas range.  Who would've thought?  That took us to sunset (very nice) then moonrise (nice, as well).

Sunset from Stakkslettbua

Now, that looks pretty sweet, and I was pretty pleased to see it.  I was planning on telling my buddies back it Moholt what a cool view I'd had, when I got a text telling me to run outside because you could see the AURORA BOREALIS from the student village.  I ran out, but by then it was cloudy at the cabin.  This is what I missed:

Aurora from Moholt.
I MISSED THIS!!!  UNGH!

I was extremely disappointed.

This has been another week of class with little to report.  This weekend I'll be off to yet another cabin for camping & hiking, this time with some of my CoMEM buddies!