Horntindan
934 metres of ascent over 3.9 km from Skommesvik to Horntindan — 910.9 on screen against the published 910, and the horns that named the mountain measure 61.8–64.0 degrees in their first windows to the north and north-east. Up towards Hemmestadfjellet and the ridge south, the same ridge the Hemmestadfjellet tour uses. KAST 3 – Complex with ice axe and crampons; the normal descent over Hornflata measures 35–40 degrees. Grade 4.
Elevation profile
934 metres of ascent over 3.9 km from Skommesvik: up the hillside to the treeline at 396, south of Hemmestadfjellet at 673 — and the ridge south to the summit push, 29.4 degrees between 870 and 889 m.
The start is the service road off the fv. 850 Revsnesveien at Skommesvik — 22 m; the register point for the farm sat more than 250 m from any mapped road, and the source also mentions parking at Gammelgårdsbukta. Up the hillside to 469: the band from 400 to 500 is the steepest on average at 21.8 degrees, and the treeline sits at 396 after 1.28 km.
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