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Offline  thegeneralist
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Brilliant day yesterday.... After an abortive attempt to wade through 2km of thigh deep snow to Bollis the day before, we decided the brace the hairpins of doom to go Sorstulen. We did Goddis(Godis?) which is an utterly mind blowing 4 or 5 pitches of superb ice. Even accessing it was exciting....

https://flic.kr/p/2qJ5wVQ

3 big abseils followed by hand over hand down some daisy chained slings off a hastily placed ice screw when it transpired that the last abseil was indeed longer than 200ft!

We split the first pitch into 2, which was a good call as it meant my partner could go crazy with the screws on what was only his second day leading ice...

https://flic.kr/p/2qJ5vc4

I was so chuffed to lead the main pitch, calves burning and desperately wanting to rest on an ice screw ( but didn't). Used all 22 of them again.  No pictures of that bit, but P3 was very pretty in the sunset ..

https://flic.kr/p/2qJ5rN1

Pitch four took a while and it ended up being a twelve hour day. Glad we took four head torches 🙂

What was so brilliant was the general comfort and lack of stress, apart from the drive. The belays were huge, the ice was beautiful plastic, the temperature was balmy and the wind was non existent. So different from "full" winter conditions. Also the ice screws seemed generally bomber.  Reversed a couple after hitting air or powder, but generally excellent.  Not that I was planning on falling, but it gave me the option of resting or retreating if....

Today was a late start, and very short as the temp has dropped to minus 10 and we didn't manage to dry our kit our properly overnight.

https://flic.kr/p/2qHYPQH

 
Posted : 30/01/2025 8:07 pm
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That's fab Generalissimo!

 
Posted : 30/01/2025 8:31 pm
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Rest day skiing yesterday. Temperature was minus  fifteen this morning so we chose sunny Hundefossen. It was superb.  Lead 3 routes including this one which really stretched me.  Awesome place.

https://flic.kr/p/2qJhjVY

Just wish I could have got photos from a better position as the light was beautiful

https://flic.kr/p/2qJo6Bs

 
Posted : 01/02/2025 7:48 pm
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Ace pics Generalist. When the drive is sketchier than the climb you’ve had a pretty exciting day

 
Posted : 02/02/2025 10:13 am
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Quick stop off on the way to the airport....

https://flic.kr/p/2qJxJic

 
Posted : 02/02/2025 3:54 pm
Offline  wbo
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Good few days of climbing there 🙂

 
Posted : 02/02/2025 4:12 pm
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