Hurrungane (also written ''Hurrungene'', ''Hurrungadn'', ''Horungane'') is a mountain range in the municipalities Luster and

Årdal Årdal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Årdalsfjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Årdalstangen is the administrative center of the municipality. The other main village is Ø ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The area is southwest in the larger mountain range

Jotunheimen Jotunheimen (; "the home of the Jötunn") is a mountainous area of roughly in southern Norway and is part of the long range known as the Scandinavian Mountains. The 29 highest mountains in Norway are all located in the Jotunheimen mountains, in ...

and is also part of

Jotunheimen National Park Jotunheimen National Park ( no, Jotunheimen nasjonalpark, "Home of the Giants") is a national park in Norway, recognized as one of the country's premier hiking and fishing regions. The national park covers and is part of the larger area Jotunhe ...

. The range has some of the most alpine peaks in Norway, and has 23 peaks over (counting peaks with larger prominence than ). Several of the peaks are only accessible through

climbing Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep topographical object that can range from the world's tallest mountains (e.g. the eight thousanders), to small boulders. Climbing is done fo ...

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...

crossings. The starting point for hiking is the village of

Turtagrø Turtagrø is a hotel in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway, near Hurrungane in Jotunheimen. The hotel has been a central meeting place for mountaineers from the late 1800s. Location Turtagrø is located near the old mountain ...

along the national tourist road,

Sognefjellsvegen The Sognefjellsvegen or Sognefjellsveien is the highest mountain pass road in Northern Europe. Part of County Road 55, it is located in Innlandet and Vestland counties in Norway. It is a national tourist road and starts in the village of Lom in ...

(RV55). The highest peaks in the area are *

Store Skagastølstinden Store may refer to: Enterprises * Retail store, a shop where merchandise is sold, usually products and usually on a retail basis, and where wares are often kept ** App store, an online retail store where apps are sold, included in many mobile op ...

(Storen): *

Store Styggedalstinden Store Styggedalstind, is the fourth-highest summit in Norway, located within the Hurrungane mountains, which are part of the Jotunheimen mountain range. The mountain is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Luster in Vestland coun ...

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Jervvasstind Jervvasstind (also known as: ''Gjertvasstind'' and ''Østre Styggedalstind'') is Norway's ninth-highest mountain. The mountain lies in the Hurrungane mountains in the eastern part of the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. It l ...

(Gjertvasstind): *

Sentraltind Sentraltind (also known as ''Sentraltinden'' or ''Vestre Styggedalstind'') is a mountain in the Hurrungane mountains in the Jotunheimen mountain range. The tall mountain is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Luster in Vestland ...

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Vetle Skagastølstind Vetle Skagastølstinden (or ''Vesle Skagastølstind'') is one of the peaks constituting Skagastølstindane ("Skagastøl peaks") in the Hurrungane mountain range and is List of mountains in Norway by height, among Norway's highest. The tall mounta ...

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Midtre Skagastølstind Midtre Skagastølstind is one of the peaks constituting Skagastølstindane ("Skagastøl peaks") in the Hurrungane mountain range. The tall mountain lies in the eastern part of the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. The mountain ...

: * Skagastølsnebbet: *

Store Austanbotntind Store Austanbotntind (official form on maps ''Store Austanbotntinden'') is a mountain on the border of the municipalities of Luster and Årdal in Vestland county, Norway. It is the highest peak in the western part of the Hurrungane mountain rang ...

Name

''Hurrungane'' is the finite plural of a word ''hurrung''. ''Hurrungen'', the finite singular of the same word, is the names of two mountains in Rauma and

Skjåk Skjåk is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bismo. Most of the municipal residents live in the Billingsdalen an ...

. The first element is the verb ''hurra'' which means "hurry, move fast (with noise and roar)". The last element is the

suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...

''-ung'', referring to an active thing/person. The actual mountains are steep, and there are frequent rockslides and

avalanche An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain. Avalanches can be set off spontaneously, by such factors as increased precipitation or snowpack weakening, or by external means such as humans, animals, and earth ...

s from the hillsides. The meaning of the name is then "the noisemakers". Hurrungane as seen from high up in uradalen

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Mountain ranges of Norway Landforms of Vestland Jotunheimen Luster, Norway Årdal {{Vestland-mountain-stub

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