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The hike to Kjeragbolten is perhaps the second most popular in the Stavanger area. The boulder (bolten) is a large chockstone wedged between the sheer walls of a 1500-foot cliff. Posing on the top is sure to impress your friends.

Paul, Diana, Antoine and I drove to the area after visiting the Manafossen waterfall. We stopped at Oygardsstolen Cafe and continued down to Lysebotn, at the head of 42 km-long Lysefjord. Dimitri Bevc and I returned to climb from Oygardsstolen to Kjeragbolten. The weather mainly sucked, but we saw a few base jumpers doing their thing before the weather got socked in for good.


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At a high point along the driv...
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View to the north from the spo...
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Panoramic view of Lysebotn fro...
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Lysefjord from Lysebotn.
kj05-lysebotn-waterfall.jpg (239 KB)


Waterfall cascading down to Ly...
kj06-kjerag-sign.jpg (403 KB)


Sign at Kjerag trailhead at Oy...
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Oygardsstolen Cafe from the hi...
kj08-kjerag-pano.jpg (211 KB)


Snowfields and clear streams f...
kj09-lysefjord-drop.jpg (215 KB)


A clear stream about to drop i...
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Base Jumpers go from the cliff...
kj11-dimitri-kjeragbolten.jpg (181 KB)


Dimitri and the postcard view....
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Yours truly on Kjeragbolten. ...
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Yours truly on Kjeragbolten. ...
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View from Kjeragbolten.
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The Kjeragbolten itself from a...
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The exposed traverse to Kjerag...
kj15-lysefjord-pano.jpg (132 KB)


Panoramic view from Kjeragbolt...
kj16-ferry-parachute.jpg (139 KB)


Passenger ferry and parachute ...
kj17-two-parachutes.jpg (33 KB)


Two base jumpers.
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Panoramic view of Lysefjord fr...
kj19-helicopter.jpg (129 KB)


A Helicopter ferries base jump...
kj20-about-to-jump.jpg (172 KB)


A group of base jumpers about ...
kj21-kjerag.jpg (159 KB)


Typical view from Kjerag's hig...
kj22-jump-zone-lysefjord.jpg (278 KB)


Lysefjord and the jump zone fo...
kj23-helicopter.jpg (118 KB)


Helicopter comes in to pick up...
kj23-kjerag.jpg (188 KB)


Typical view.
kj24-dimitri-bridge.jpg (155 KB)


Dimitri crossing this wooden "...
kj25-trail-descent.jpg (232 KB)


Can you see the people on the ...
kj26-dimitri-descent.jpg (240 KB)


Dimitri and typical view of th...
kj27-topo.jpg (520 KB)


Topo map of the hike taken as ...



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