Fredrikke’s backyard

Outside Stories, last updated 18 june 2026

It’s overcast in Kabelvåg when we meet Fredrikke one afternoon in May. She smiles and brings good energy from the first moment. We sit down outside Lofoten Apartments, the old, abandoned building she and her partner Erik bought in 2014 and have since transformed into several rental apartments.

Right behind the house are the mountains. In front lies the ocean. And from the doorway, she looks straight towards Glomtinden, part of what she calls her backyard.

“It took five or six years before I found a kind of resting pulse,” she says.

For Fredrikke, nature is not somewhere she goes when she has time off. It is part of her everyday life. A place for movement, calm, mastery and sometimes a solid reminder of how small we really are.

“The moment you get up on the mountain, it’s like: oh shit. I’m the tiniest fart in the universe. My problems don’t matter at all.”

We walk part of the way up towards Glomtinden and watch Kabelvåg grow smaller below us. She came to Lofoten for the mountains and the ocean, but it took time before she truly landed.

“It took five or six years before I found a kind of resting pulse,” she says.

Today, she makes the most of the nature around her. Surfing, skiing, hiking and yoga. Not to perform, but to feel what the body can do.

“It takes you up a mountain. It gets you out into the ocean. Everything it is physically able to do.”

Through TERA Retreats, Fredrikke wants to give others a way into what she found in Lofoten. Here, nature, yoga, surfing, ski touring and community come together, but the goal is not to perform. It is about lowering the threshold for trying something new, feeling the body work and experiencing how nature can bring mastery, perspective and a little more calm to the mind.

“That’s what I want to share with others.”