Skårasalen is a mountain

Mountain

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 in the municipality of Ørsta

Ørsta

is a village and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region of Western Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørsta...

 in Møre og Romsdal

Møre og Romsdal

is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The 1542 metres (5,059.1 ft) tall mountain has the seventh largest prominence (1390 metres (4,560.4 ft)) of all mountains in Norway. The mountain is located about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of the village of Sæbø

Sæbø, Møre og Romsdal

Sæbø is a village in the municipality of Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located along the Hjørundfjorden in the Bondalen valley. It is about north of the mountain Skårasalen...

 and the Bondalen

Bondalen

Bondalen is a valley in the Hjørundfjord area of the municipality of Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The sparsely populated valley runs to the west from the Hjørundfjorden and the village of Sæbø towards the village of Volda....

 valley in the Hjørundfjord

Hjørundfjord

Hjørundfjord is a former municipality in the municipality of Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village of Sæbø, located on the shores of the Hjørundfjorden. The municipality encircled both sides of the Hjørundfjorden as well as the Bondalen valley...

 area of Ørsta. The nearby mountain, Jakta

Jakta

Jakta is a tall mountain in the Sunnmørsalpene mountain range. It is located in the municipality of Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Jakta lies south of the nearby mountain Slogen and just across the Hjørundfjorden from the mountain Skårasalen. The village of Leira lies south of...

, lies directly to the east on the opposite side of the fjord.

Skårasalen lies within the Sunnmørsalpene

Sunnmørsalpene

Sunnmørsalpene is a collective term for the mountains range in Sunnmøre, Norway. The mountain range encircles the Hjørundfjorden in the municipalities of Volda, Ørsta, Stranda, and Sykkylven. These mountains have peaks reaching straight up from the fjord....

 mountain range along the southern shores of the Hjørundfjorden

Hjørundfjorden

Hjørundfjorden is a fjord in the traditional district of Sunnmøre in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long fjord is an arm of the larger Storfjord that stretches south from Ålesund...

. Access is easiest from the Kvistad valley on the western side. An alternative descent for skiing

Skiing

Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

is a steep route straight down to the fjord on the eastern side, and then to return via a hired boat.