This has nothing to do with hiking, or the Bay Area, it’s just a cool thing to do: Touring the crazy-beautiful Norway coastline, which is what lucky sod Stephen Regenold will be up to for the next few days.

Specifically, I’ll be ski-touring in the Romsdalfjorden region, where fjords snake as long slate passageways around mountain peaks with names like Ytstetinden, Skjervan and (my favorite) Trolltinden.

Anyplace with names like that can’t be all bad. A former co-worker of mine did a Norway ski tour last year and declared it spectacular — definitely one for your life list. This link from the Norway Trekking Association looks interesting.

Another page at Infohub.com lists Norway tours for hikers.