Monday, September 1, 2008

A Productive Weekend

Two new areas were explored this weekend. While they're on opposite ends of the spectrum both are exceptional and have me wanting to go back.
The first area is a jumble of steep boulders in the forest on Orust. A 10 meter long jug haul is far and away the longest roof I’ve seen in Sweden and the "Stagger Lee" project on the "Nick Cave" boulder might be the best roof problem I've climbed on in Sweden. I’m hoping to post a vid soon of a line I did and some footage of the one I didn’t.

The second area is on a small island called Keö. We have Spång and Marie to thank for finding the area and loading us on their boat to get there. It's mostly slabby walls with a couple boulders. One extremely beautiful line held Martin and my attention for much of the day. It remains a project. Spawn of Spång, Captain Spång, and Only the Spång Survive were three great problems we put up.




The Keö project


Spång on the fa of Only the Spång Survive


Henrik on Captain Spång

Henrik on the scary top of Spawn of Spång

Spång on Spawn..

Movitz, The spawn of Spång


Lina cruising left out the Nick Cave roof

Martin eyeballs the jug on the Stagger Lee project

The other Martin the Stagger Lee project

4 comments:

AK said...

Where are the three bottompics from?

Anonymous said...

orust. about 15 minutes from boxvik. some sweet stuff.

AK said...

Looks pretty sheltered. Maybe worth a visit in the fall, even though Gothenburg has a 100% bad weather garanty.

Anonymous said...

Fina bilder Walker! Den där ön ser underbar ut! Grottorna kan vi lämna åt gråsuggorna.

/Fredrik