Good news for the project! We do now have the confirmation that Dani Andrada, the legendary Spanish climber will attend the Norwegian climbing festival. He will climb the hard routes and hold lectures. For more info about Dani, have a look at his blog: http://daniandrada.blogspot.no/

The final program for the festival is soon to be published. The participants of the project will have the possibilitty to attend all parts of the program. Especially nice will be the Norwegian climbing federations 20th anniversary celebration held on Mid summers eve on saturday. Hopefully the sky will be clear and you will have the chance to witness the (close to) Midnight sun.

Now  we are heading once again for Strøm and Flatanger to work on the routes. The local climbers have been working whole week, so hopefully we will manage to finish most of the preparations this weekend, leaving next and last weekend for working on the final touch.

The bolting team had problems because they didnt have any anchores left. The remotenes of Flatanger was compensated by the swift actions of the climbing shop at Oppdal, VPG, and the bolting team was quicly set up with the neccessary hardware. Thanks a lot to VPG!

I will return on sunday with updated news about the route situation at Strøm.

There has again been a successful dugnad-weekend at Strøm, Flatanger. A lot of new routes are created by Lars Audun Nornes, Runar Carlsen and Øystein Krødsby Johnsen, three very experienced climbers and route creaters. The routes are both long trad on slabs and hard sport on vertical to slightly overhanging rock. Some are short and others are longer. Some are multipitch. The variations in holds are big and routes are full of nice surprises for the climber. None of the routes will  have a FA when you arrive, so bring you OS and flash-shoes-You will get your name in the book if you are the first to send!

The weather at Strøm is for the time beeing a little unpredictable. At one moment the dandelions were bathing in sun, the next moment our tent was picked up by a strong blast from Nothwest and almost took a hike up the valley. Norway is for the time beeing squeezed between a high and a low pressure, making the weather rather unstable. Hopefully the weather conditions will settle down by the 22 of june. To stay updated on the weather, check out the norwegian weather forcast services here: http://www.yr.no/Lauvsnes/

Strøm, the festival arena

Strøm on saturday. A crew from Tronheim klatreklubb visited Strøm, Flatanger this weekend. We have cleared a lot of trees and bolted a dozen routes on two new crags. One of them can be seen on the cliff to the left of the turn on the road. The festival arena is situated on and around the farm closest to the sea. The huge cave, Hanshelleren is behind the ridge going to the top on the right hand side behind the farms.

We do now have the confirmation that Ethan Pringle will attend the Flatanger climbing festival. He has climbed 9a and will have a go on the hard routes in the cave. For more info and some convincing footage of Mr. Pringle, have a look at his homepage http://www.ethanpringle.com/

Now it is possible to sign up as volunteer for the festival. Fill in the form you will find here:
sign me up as volunteer