Got up at 6:30am and still felt OK after climbing yesterday. We had a quick breakfast and decided to climb to the Monksteps again and find them. We took off and were told to follow signs to Nosi. We made it to the same place as yesterday and followed a small path up a narrow, winding hillside with big drop offs. At last, we found the Monksteps. Norm kept saying, “Here they are” and Cindy kept sayingthat we had not seen a sign for them yet and they did not look exactly like the steps in the picture. Eventually, Norm found a sign that showed we had already climbed above the steps. We walked until we were at the snowline and Cindy tossed a snowball at Norm. On the way down, Norm figured out why there was not a sign for Monksteps. The sign was not the name on the map but the last letters that means “steps” in Norwegian. At last, we Had found the Monksteps, all 616 of them. We had climbed to 800 meters above sea level. It felt like it! Boy were we tired. The trip down was grueling as we are not used to walking downhill that far two days in a row. We barely made it back to the hotel in time for our requested late 2pm checkout.
We did have a nice view of the Bjodnabukse and Skrinko waterfalls that we saw yesterday. Who knew we could hike mountain trails for a total of 12 hours over two days. Boy will we pay for this later. This afternoon, we were picked up and driven in a van to the small town of Norheimsond and were let out at an unheated waiting area for a bus to Bergen. This took the scenic route and was a normal travel city bus that went all through the mountains.