Søre Dyrhaugstind

It's on time I post something here.

Emil and I wanted to do some mountaineering and finally got some time of from school. We went early the 29th of November with Søre Dyrhaugstind in mind. Last time I had to bail on the crux pitch of this climbing route due terrible conditions. This time we managed to pull it of in nice conditions. Could have been a bit more snow for the ski part, but the climbing was awesome! Very cold conditions so there isn't much photo to brag with, but got a few.




Søre Dyrhaugstind 2014 from Andreas Grøvan Aspaas on Vimeo.

2 belay. Photo: Emil Solbakken

The view from 3 belay. Photo: Emil Solbakken

On the top. Photo: Emil Solbakken

On the way back out. Photo: Emil Solbakken

On the ridge back out. Photo: Andreas 

Recap of the Winter 2014

Finally I found some time to edit this winter's footage. Of course I did not get the best powder days on tape. I also had the habit of forgetting my camera during the season. But I got some good days in anyway. Feels like the editing took forever, but I think it's viewable now.

I hope you enjoy it!

Vinteren 2014(1 from Andreas Grøvan Aspaas on Vimeo.

Extended easter

5 friends of mine and I went down to Fontainebleau for the easter holidays. Two weeks of bouldering, cheap wine and baguettes with the occasional pain au chocolate as a treat for sending a new personal best. We suggested one of the hookers along the road as a treat too, but Magnhild wasn't keen on it. We had great weather every day and I got to see 3 or 4 new areas. Also managed to send a few 7a's with a favourite called La Grande Marche in Canche aux Merciers. We managed to deliver the rental car without any mayor damages, get to the airport in time and now I am on the train back home to see my family for a few days.

Here are some pictures from the trip

High ballin

Grodo sending another 7a

Me sending la grande marche

Barbecuing in the backyard

Magnhild trying an 7a

Slack lining, sore fingers

Tiller on the 6b+ slab

Me sending the boulder knees, 7a

Kristian sending 6b+ slab

Grodo trying a nice looking 7a

Me trying this cool 7b "fridge"

Tor Henrik sending 

The gang ready for bouldering!

Tune dinner, inspired by Yngve

One happy tiller after sending "Tanks" 7a+

Skiing

I havent been blogging much about skiing lately, so here's an update on that front. Lots of things going on at the time too. Work, school and traveling. I did not know they had internet on flights. Not much else to do on them, so blogging from the flight to paris now.

Been eager on skiing a bit steeper and trying out chuts latley. I had one nice trip with Jørgen Tiltnes and Andreas Krøn a couple weeks ago. We tried a line behind frudalshesten in sogndalsdalen. A  quite cool line! A pretty hard crust made it a bit harder to ski properly though. Last week Asger and I went out to try the eastface above salen. There is a pretty cool chutes there too. Unfourtunatly the sun did not want to shine that particular day, which resulted to crampons and hard crust/ice conditions on the way down. Good edge testing conditions. I had to be down at school and do math by 12. So.. Would have been nicer later in the day!

Hurrungane after easter shold be good skiing!

Looking down in the chute

Jørgen skiing down

Looking up from the valley near borge

Asgeir booting up the chute in frudalen

Asgeir testing the edges on ice

Søre dyrhaugstind

I went yet another trip to Hurrungane. This time Sondre Weenås joined me. I had imagined that if I combined skiing and climbing, the two best things to do in life, that would be the ultimate thing to do. So to try it out I aimed for a route up Søre Dyrhaugtind. After sleeping in the car we went really early from Turtagrø so we could ski down around 1pm. At sunrise we reached the bottom of the route. Eager to start climbing and get warm I started of the first pitch. The sun radiation melted the snow quite fast and on the crux pitch the slab did not have any ice or snow. The climbing was quite exciting and totally different from Storen. After climbing some more, runouts, bad ice and the too much snow, I retreated. Sucks but thats how climbing is some times. Go back and do it when the conditions are better.

Did not take too many pictures but here are some

Rise and shine! Sonde around 3 in the morning

Sondre on the way to the first pitch

Red is where we climbed, and returned. Blue is the rest of the climb

View from 2nd belay, Midtmaradalen

Sondre following on the first of 4-5 pitches

Store Skagastølstind

Grodo and I went to try Storen a few weeks earlier. Due to shit conditions we had to bail, but this time that were not an option and we were more eager then ever. Sondre also wanted to start his winter climbing after newly purchased axes and crampons. This time we had visibility, but the strong wind kept it exciting during the pitches to the summit. I am hooked. Winter climbing is awesome.

Here's some pictures

At bandet getting ready to start the day

Making water

Going up the aprons

Beautiful view

The climbing getting closer

Scrambling some before roping in

Me belaying on top of the last pitch. Amazing formations

Grodo and Sondre at the summit

Ryefossen

Magnhild and Grodo wanted to climb some ice with me so we went to Jostedalen and climbed ryefossen. The winter had'nt turned out well yet, so I was a bit curious how the ice was. We got running water and some shallow patches of ice, but most important another day of nice ice climbing!

Ryefossen in Jostedalen

Grodo got the second pitch, belaying Magnhild

Magnhild and Grodo following 3rd pitch

Me belaying