Just one little reason why we can't get to these amazing routes, the valley is drippin with them! The road closed last night because of an avalanche. I asked our host how common this was, expecting a 'weekly' answer - first time in 11 years. Nice one.
Fancy a shot at this. In the local Spar, we found the 'youth club' going on - 6 lovely ol guys supping hot chocolate and trying to persuade Gill to join them. checkout lady gave us choc bars, and a local guy screeched up (wrong sound for snow i guess0 and asked if we were the ice climbers! Similar to the Spars back home then!?
The family cragging venue at Flaget, about 35 mins away.
Mmmmm, choclate eggs. Easter must be earlier here.
Hanging about, baking in the sun. The forecast for the week had shown down to -18. It wasn't correct.
lovely, lovely, strange ice.
Awww
That's really interesting, we were there on the 11th of March and thought it all looked like it was starting to melt away. https://picasaweb.google.com/114922424602799039677/NorthernNorway2011#5590921564681705586 but in your photo it looks like it might have reformed a bit! Were you walking across the lake?
ReplyDeleteHey Toby, really sorry - didn't realise you'd left a comment - bad me, bad blog! Yes, stuff seems to reform pretty quickly here; but seems about right when you're on Senja and the snow line is fluctuating to and from the sea itself, but not very far either.
ReplyDeleteWell, I started by walking across then made a quick about turn when it became wet underfoot! Then we shimmied around the edge. I was a little twitchey, but needn't have been.
Actually, the following week the left hand route had lost huge chunks and I would have been quite reluctant for the shimmying, at least without a rotund or dense partner out front!