Bisettelse / funeral

Det blir bisettelse i Malvik kirke torsdag 9. juni kl 13. Minnestund på Midtsand etter begravelsen.

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The funeral will be held in Malvik church, Thursday June 9th, at 1:00 pm. After the funeral, a gathering will be hosted at Midtsand.



People requiring assistance with travel and accomodation can contact us through findare@gmail.com

In memory of Are Hjørungnes

I'm struggling to realize, to accept, that you, my close friend Are, are dead but the story is out there on TV, the radio and in the newspapers. I have known you for more than 25 years and seen your unique way trough life. I will miss your company, your laughter, your easy-going ways. I will miss leaving work early to meet you for a swim at Lutvann or a Kebab at 'the best place in Oslo', I will miss our mathematical discussions, how we would work on challenging problems together. I will miss all emails coming from you and how they made me laugh and blush. I will miss you as a companion when we went hiking.

Now they say I will never enjoy that again, but I will wait for a sign, an email, a phone call or a knock on my door for a long time.

Are, you were the best friend I could think of,
Per Christian


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You may send condolences to the family through the email address findare@gmail.com

• Here are some pictures of Are enjoying one of the many things he excelled at.
• There was a gathering on sunday for the people involved in the search and Ares family and friends at Dillingham.

Topo maps over search area

Not yet available - error on previous map

REQUEST - Completed

It is believed Are had VJ Orienteering shoes that were spike-less and black color(mostly). The foot-print of the shoe will be very valuable in the search.

Getting ready for 8th day of search

Summary of events Day 7 of search

REQUEST FOR GPS TRACK DATA!

Update from Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD)

Garmin data files for search help

Getting ready for 7th day of search

Norwegian news

Latest news from Hawaii

Current status - Moring May 19

MUCH MORE THAN AVERAGE PROTOCOL

You may imagine how family and close friends are feeling with the
disappearance of our dearest Are Hjørungnes, the Norwegian professor
who got lost during a H.U.R.T. run in Hawaii. The whole situation
becomes even more difficult to grasp for those knowing him as he is so
young, and strong, and trained, and smart. And he has been so happy
lately with fulfilment of the dream of spending a whole sabbatical
year in Hawaii. Are is no doubt a very special person, and this is not
only for the closest ones: he is definitely not average protocol.

Summary of events May 18

Trail map for the area

Some information about the volunteer effort

H.U.R.T. Hawaii have some new information about the volunteer effort taking place, now that the official engangement by HFD is ended.

Information from experienced orienteering runners

Anders and Morten has been in contact with experienced orienteering runners, in an attempt to better understand how Are, himself an orienteering runner, would read the terrain in the situation he was in and how he would try to rectify mistakes made when getting back to his car.

Latest news from Hawaii

The run:

On Saturday May 14 Are joined  4 members of H.U.R.T. Hawaii  and another runner for a run on the Peacock Flats. He was at Dillingham Air Tower (Point A) around 6:30 a.m. getting there by a borrowed car. The runners headed up the Kealia Trail (Points B,C,D) and at Point I where Kealia Trail meets Kuaokala Road (Pink) turned to their right. From there they went to Point J, followed the green trail to Point K. They followed the red trail till Point L where it meets the Pink trail, followed the pink trail till Point M where it meets the yellow trail (Kuaokala Ridge Road) at Point M. They followed Kuaokala Ridge Rd. (a single track trail) to Point H where a water stash was located. He drank some water and filled up his bottles.

Point H is where Are was last seen. He and another runner started ahead of the group down the pink trail to where it meets up with Kealia Trail at Point I. Somehow they got separated. On the way down the other runner made a mistake at Point D by going down the blue trail for about 3 minutes, realizing his mistake got back up on the Kealia trail and continued down through points D,C,B to his car at A.

Status:

• Are never got down to his car at Point A. The car was later found with Ares belongings in it.
• Hikers on Kealia Trail(yellow) have confirmed they only saw one runner comming down on the lower parts.
• The other runners from H.U.R.T. didn't see Are on the way down.
• 3 days of search by volunteers, HFD, HPD and local search and rescue teams by foot, helicopter and with dogs have given no results. 

Volunteers wanted!