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Rjukan buried in snow

Monday, 25 January 2010

Just spent an extremely enjoyable weekend working away in Norway. Rjukan has a lot of snow, which means that travel to multi-pitch routes or between pitches on the easier grade WI/II climbs can be DEEP! However the shorter routes close to the road in the Gorge Sector are very approachable and have good ice. In places it is 'bullet-proof' so good sharp tools are required, but other routes are a touch softer and much less hard work. We climbed:

  • Tungtvann with an abseil in from the top with both the final L-Hand finish (WI.4) and R-Hand finish (WI.3)
  • Camillas Foss (WI.3)
  • Pentium (WI.3)
  • Swiss Army with a simple (WI.2) finish on the L-Hand slab and a WI.3/4 start
  • Lillebror (WI.3)
  • Knerten (WI.3)
  • LP-plata (WI.3)
  • Hjemreisen (WI.4)
  • Kursruta (WI.3)
  • Grade WI.2 slab opposite Hjemreisen back to the road!
We noticed headtorches on a couple of the longer routes ;-)






posted by Westcoast Mountainguides @ 20:52 


2 Comments:

Blogger Tim said...

Fairly bomb proof belays then.

25 January 2010 23:38  

Blogger Westcoast Mountainguides said...

Hi Tim,

Lots of options for belays, nearly all on trees and the abseil 'tat' is mostly good, but as usual worth carrying some new stuff in case you want to back it up.

26 January 2010 09:40  

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