I went hiking for a change. The goal was to do two peaks today, Rutstöten (1098m) and Gråhöjden (1192m). They are in the same direction and so close together that it would be wasteful to only do one of the peaks at a time. And in fact, had I not already done Volldalshöjden, it would have been easy to add as a third peak on the same hike because you pass right by it on the way to the other two.

Rutstöten doesn’t look like much, it only rises about 100m from the plateau. The most impressive thing about it is the cairn, it’s totally out of proportion to the size of the mountain… well, not that cairns ever really are sized according to some scale. Anyway, Rutstöten is easy and while you’re on top, it’s worth spending an extra minute to look at Gråhöjden to find the best way up. There is a lot of bogland on the slopes and after the heaving raining yesterday, everything was extremely wet. Spots that are normally dry were muddy and the places which are normally wet were absolutely waterlogged now. My Gryms were the right choice of footwear so I wasn’t worried about getting my feet wet, but walking through the water soaked moss and mud is just heavy work that I rather avoided.

The scouting paid off and I reached Gråhöjden without problems. It isn’t a very pretty mountain either to be honest but it turned out to be very interesting once on top. There were a lot of strange looking rocks and rock formations but when I saw a rock which was balancing on smaller rocks, I just had to stop and admire Mother Nature’s work. I’ve seen all kinds of balancing rocks which are often leaning on other rocks with just a tiny connection to the ground, but this one… it wasn’t touching the ground, at all! It was quite simply resting on these smaller rocks which acted like feet. My first idea was that it was left behind like that by the glacier after the ice age, but now that I think about it, it could also be erosion. I mean, maybe this cliff was one covered in vegetation but then the soil eroded away and only the rocks remained? Regardless of how it happened, I think it’s absolutely marvellous. This rock alone made the trip worth the effort!