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Aiguilles Crochues

Date:
31.07.2015
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Duration:
4:00h

Første dagen på alpeferie i år og det ble en nydelig tur over Aiguilles Crochues. Planen for denne ferien var å reise rundt med min venninne og aspirantguide Rocio. Tidligere i år hadde hun spurt meg om jeg var interessert i å teame opp med henne og finne noen fine alpinegger å klatre da hun hadde noen frie uker i forkant av sin siste eksamen og ville øve mest mulig. Siden jeg ikke hadde lagt ferieplanen akkurat da var det derfor et fint tilbud som jeg naturlig takket ja til. Vi møttes på Fleur des Neiges hvor jeg hadde overnattet og diskuterte planen for de neste dagene basert på værmeldinga og mtp akklimatisering. Været her i Chamonix var nydelig og varmt så det virket som en god ide å utnytte det istedenfor å kjøre østover mot Valaisalpene med en gang og finne på noe der. >>>

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Allalinhorn ENE ridge

Date:
20.08.2014
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Duration:
5:00h

After our ascent of the Gran Paradiso North Face we descended back down to the valley from the Chabod hut in fog and rain showers and took a coffee break at the cafe at Pont. While here we had a browse through the guide books, got an updated weather forecast and thought over our options for the rest of the week. There seemed to be a bit of unstable weather until thursday, but friday looked to be a good day. After much discussion and suggestions, we made a plan to drive to Saas Grund and have a base there for the next two nights, and one night at the Almageller hut, which was more or less within the same area. So we made the long(ish) drive back from Italy over the St. Bernards Pass into Switzerland again and eastwards along the Rhone valley towards the Saas valley. To break up the journey a bit we stopped at a Coop >>>

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Gran Paradiso North Face

Date:
18.08.2014
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

Summer in Norway has been superb and I never intended to travel abroad to indulge in mountain trips at all this year. It was only after some more recent climbing and scrambling-style trips that I suddenly realised how much I missed alpine-style trips and ended up dreaming of heading to some higher mountains again. Since I was feeling a bit rusty on climbing and ropework in general and was lacking friends to go to the Alps on a semi-spontaneous trip with, the obvious solution seemed to be to join a guided course. I was not entirely convinced it would be worth it since I had only heard talk about the weather being awful in the Alps all summer, but in the end I decided to take the chance anyway, I couldn’t imagine it would be worse than being out during a mild winter spell in Scotland could >>>

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Styrmannstinden

Date:
01.03.2014
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Duration:
8:30h

Lite snø. Is og skare i lavlandet. Mens mange folk klager på det dårlige skiføret, fikk oss andre optimale snøforhold for denne 'tinderangling' turen med fjellsportgruppa. Turmålet ble ikke bestemt før vi møttes på Kvaløysletta tidlig denne lørdagen. Stein Tronstad var turleder og han hadde med seg Ole Jacob som medturleder. I alt var vi 8 stykker. Selv om yr hadde meldt oppholdsvær og 'perioder med sol', var været dessverre litt annerledes. Flere muligheter ble diskutert men til slutt ble det bestemt at vi skulle ta en topp eller to rundt Grøtfjorden. Tåke gjorde starten på turen grå og kjedelig. Det var faktisk ingen topper i sikte og lett regnvær var ikke så inspirerende heller. Men til tross for været, var alle i god humør og fire av oss - inkludert meg, ba et tau opp. >>>

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Sgorr Ruadh (Post Box Gully)

Date:
11.02.2013
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Distance:
14.0km

After out first day out climbing Access Gully on Fuar Tholl, we had a small discussion about whether to go somewhere with a long walk-in, or a shorter walk-in for our second day of climbing. As things turned out we ended up heading for Sgorr Ruadh which was the longer walk-in option. I was secretly happy about that. The mountain itself was located in the same valley as Fuar Tholl, but slightly more to the north-west. To get to Post Box Gully, which was on the north side of the mountain, we first had to walk 6 to 7km from Achnashellach along the river Lair, with Beinn Liath Mor to our right and Sgorr Ruadh to our left. It was not too taxing, rising gradually from Achnashellach. On the other hand, with all our climbing equipment loaded onto our backs it was no walk in the park either, especially >>>

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Fuar Tholl (Access Gully)

Date:
10.02.2013
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

Today’s objective (today being the first day of a 5-day winter climbing course) was an ascent of Fuar Tholl via Access Gully. Fuar Tholl is one of the mountains more local to Strathcarron, where we were staying and only about 5 minutes drive down the road. On the course with me were 2 other guys, Ryan and Alex and our instructor Ken who I will best remember as being cheerful and enthusiastic with a natural walking pace which seemed to match his enthusiasm for instructing. We had what was deemed to be a ‘late’ start by leaving the lodge at 8.00. If that was supposed to be late, I expected the rest of the week to be a struggle……. Nevertheless, everyone managed to be ready with the kit sorted out on time, and we were soon heading swiftly up the lower south-eastern slopes of the mountain >>>

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Mera Peak

Date:
17.10.2011
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

I joined a trip to Mera Peak and Baruntse which was organized by a UK-based company. Since I was travelling from Tromsø, I joined the rest of the group in Kathmandu after having taken a rather long route (Tromsø-Oslo-Bangkok-Kathmandu) with Thai Airways. We were a group of 9 people plus two trip leaders, Mark and Paddy – both of whom turned out to be ultra friendly and had a good sense of humour. 17th October 2011: In Lukla The first part of the trip was the approach to Mera Peak, which involved an early morning flight into Lukla situated at 2800m. We should have been walking to our next camp at Poyan after arriving in Lukla, but since there was some delay in getting the expedition equipment from Kathmandu to Lukla, we ended up spending a night in Lukla and generally relaxing. What I was >>>

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Hidden Gully (II)

Date:
17.02.2010
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

Alternated leads with Suzana while Rocio soloed up with us. Nice route, but the snow wasn't particularly neve-like, especially after the second pitch so it felt more like a steep walk rather than a proper climb. Still, we had some practice in moving together on a short rope on the descent off Stuc a'Choire Dhuibh Bhig with fantastic views into the wilderness north of the Liathach massif - the first day of the week (possibly) we'd had any decent views at all.

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Mont Blanc

Date:
15.07.2009
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

Wednesday, 15th July 2009 Bumming around in the morning and generally not rushing around was quite nice after 2 days of early starts. In fact, 10am actually came round pretty quickly and we were soon met at the apartment by our guides Hannah and Anthony to make the drive over to Chamonix (yes, it became something of a joke that there were actually three Hannahs in a group of 6). The general plan was to have lunch in Argentiere and then continue to the Aiguille du Midi station in Chamonix. Surprisingly it took less time to travel by car than it did when we took the Mont Blanc Express train, despite all the switchbacks in the road which probably made the route longer. It was about midday by the time we parked up in Argentiere and we sat at some park benches to eat our sandwiches. Chamonix was >>>

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Weissmies

Date:
14.07.2009
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

Having a day trip to the Weissmies meant that we could carry relatively light rucksacks and there wasn’t too many things to have to think about packing. So at 6am, we bundled back into Anthony’s Audi and drove down to the Tamoil garage at Sion to meet Hannah, our other guide and also split up into 2 cars which would be a lot more comfortable for the journey up to Saas Grund. It was a dry, slightly overcast morning, which was getting gradually sunnier as we progressed further east and up the valley again. Saas Grund wasn’t particularly high up, and we were going to take the Hohe Saas gondolas up to the station at about 3100m, which would place us quite nicely for the ascent to the top of the Weissmies at 4027m. We left the Hohe Saas station about 20 minutes after jumping on at Saas Grund, >>>

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