York Alpine Club Blog

Four of us visited Rjukan for a week 7th to 14th March, Rob, Keith, Peri & Guido. On arrival we found that despite excellent ice conditions there had been heavy snowfall across southern Norway this made significant restrictions to what we were able to do during the week.

Many big multipitch climbs were out as they were blanketed in deep snow with access was difficult at best & in some cases dangerous due to avalanche.

This left us with the single pitch venues & areas that with reasonable access.

Despite these conditions we managed to climb on every day of the week & between us we managed several multipitch
classics.

List of icefalls climbed, many of these were wide falls climbed by several variations easier or harder than the official line marked in the guidebook.

As always the grades are just guidelines some routes being easy & others much harder than stated.

Trappfoss WI4 *** Upper Gorge
LP-plata WI3 *** Lower Gorge
Trippel WI3* Lower Gorge
Kaminfossen WI4 *** Lower Gorge
Hjemreisen WI4 *** Lower Gorge
Lillebror WI3 * Lower Gorge
Knerton WI3 * Lower Gorge
Nedre Svingfoss WI3 * Upper Gorge
Svingfoss WI4 * Upper Gorge
Tracy`s eyes WI3 * Upper Gorge
Anakje WI3 * Lead Ozzimosis
Minidisken WI3 Ozzimosis
Ozzimosis WI4 ** Ozzimosis
Klassisk 4 WI4 * Ozzimosis
Juledusj WI4 * Ozzimosis
Vemorkbrufoss Ost WI4 *** Vemork Bridge
Camillas Foss WI3 *** Lower Gorge
Pentium WI2 Lower Gorge
Unknown (RF 0.2) WI2 * Krokan
Unknown (RF 0.5) WI3 Krokan
Unknown (RF 2.8) WI5 Krokan
Kjøkkentrappa WI4 * Krokan
Gaustaspøkelse WI4 *** Krokan
Bullen*** WI2 Krokan
Host WI4 * Vemork Bridge
Knerton * WI4 Lower Gorge
Tungtvann *** WI4 Vemork Bridge
Rjukanfosse *** WI4 Upper Gorge

Hopefully I have not missed any.

All in all a very enjoyable & productive week.

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