This trip was planned as an easy, relaxing hike in Jegersberg with minimal kit and sleeping out under tarps. I was accompanied by Jolinda de Jong and Osvaldas Gruzdas, although I had not completed any small group trips with either of them by this point of the semester we knew each other quite well and got along. The daily routes planned were short with little height gain after the initial day and over easy terrain on well-marked paths. This was because we wanted to relax during the trip and just enjoy the area we were in but also because Oz had just come off of crutches a few days earlier after damaging his ankle.

From previous walks in the area we had a rough idea of a suitable place to camp for the first night and from studying the map we decided general areas where we could spend the other two nights.

At lunch time on the first day we met at Konsgard and hiked up to the first campsite area. We had planned to camp near to the Omvente båt however we decided to have a shorter day and to camp closer to Kristiansand. The place where we decided to camp was in an area of managed pine forest near to a stream and the footpath. There was plenty of flat space between the trees and space for us to have a small campfire. We pitched our tarps and gathered plenty of dead wood for the fire, I also constructed a heat reflector from logs and a pot hanger from some green wood so we could use the fire to make some tea. We spent the night sat around the fire, cooking sausages and talking.

The next day we had a late morning, packed up and hiked up to the Omvente båt, the weather was beautiful so we spent approx. an hour sat on the warm rocks in the sun. While we were sat relaxing we were approached by an elderly gentleman who started to talk with us. He spoke very good English and asked if I was British rather than English which led me to believe that he was himself from the UK. When we explained why we were in Norway and where we were going for our trip he told us about a hut not far away that was used by the Norwegian resistance during the war, he gave us directions and carried on his way.

We all decided that the hut was worth checking out as a point of interest and as a potential place to spend the night. On the way there we ran into the gentleman again and sat and talked some more. It turns out he came to Norway working for the British Outward Bound and has lived here since, he told us about some good climbing spots and we parted ways.

By mid-afternoon we had reached the hut and decided to spend the night there. We spent our time collecting wood, sunbathing, reading and I showed Oz how to make a figure 4 deadfall trap. Again we had a fire and cooked sausages.

We rose around 1000 the next morning and decided that rather than continue for another night and two days that we would return to Kristiansand that day. We packed up and left, the walk back took around 4hrs.

The trip was enjoyable, relaxed and not physically arduous. Because of this I see the trip as a success even though we did not stay out for as long as we had originally planned.