Buren

Dato:

03.04.2012

Turtype:

Fottur

Turlengde:

3:30t

Distanse:

7,0km

© Hannah Vickers This was what I'd generally regard as a semi-spontaneous trip, because it was planned only the day before we went. There was a cloudless sky, lots of sunshine and plenty of fresh air - just what we needed after a day in the office! With only -3 or -4 at the bottom of the mountain by Kaldfjord, conditions seemed perfect for a hike. My friend Lene had not been out on a mountain since our last hike together to Stor Kjølen, and that was in the previous autumn so she was equally thrilled to be getting out once more in a different part of Tromsø. Neither of us had much of a plan for route-finding, but we figured that since this was quite a popular choice of skiing destination, there should be some pretty obvious tracks we could follow all the way up. And that's what we did. It was almost too easy, >>>

Trollsteinen

Dato:

24.03.2012

Turtype:

Fottur

Turlengde:

4:00t

© Hannah Vickers This was to be my first ever ski trip on fjellski! The lovely Kine Halse who was spending a few months at UNIS had very fortunately been able to borrow some telemark utstyr from a friend, which meant she offered to lend me her skis to use for a trip. More luckily was that her boots actually fitted me even though they were 2 sizes smaller than my usual boots! So on a crisp and sunny saturday morning, we drove up to Nybyen and parked up just at the end of the last barracks. We met here with one of Kine's friends, Karoline Kirsch and she joined us for the trip to Trollsteinen. It was a little windy here, as it always is, and I changed from my thin down jacket to my full-on Rab Summit down jacket. It was -12 in the valley, but felt so much colder with the wind chill, coupled with the fact I'd done >>>

Resurrection (III,V)

Dato:

29.01.2012

Turtype:

Alpin klatring

Turlengde:

10:00t

© Hannah Vickers We woke up to a clear sky in Strathcarron and with an early start we left the cottage at 7am and drove north to the Fannaichs, a nice little bundle of munros north of Torridon/south of Ullapool. It wasn't all that cold outside, but after disembarking from the van it felt very chilly with the wind blowing once again. We began the walk-in from somewhere on the A835 and headed straight out in a more or less southwesterly direction towards the coire, passing Loch a' Mhadaidh on the way. It was roughly 7 or 8 km just to reach the foot of the climb, and with all our climbing gear weighing down the rucksacks, it made for quite a lengthy day out ahead of us (and hence the early start)! Sadly too, by the time we reached it, we'd been abandoned by the sun and it was windy enough to have both Debbie and >>>

Right End Buttress (III)

Dato:

28.01.2012

Turtype:

Miksklatring

© Hannah Vickers We (Debbie Spencer and myself) climbed a mixed route called Right End Buttress on Fuar Tholl with Martin Moran during a weekend of instructed climbing.It wasn't a particularly dry day and for the most of it we were in low cloud and damp air; the walk up from the valley and into the coire itself was a bit wet underfoot, and very mild. But it wasn't properly raining, which was a positive thing! We climbed as two teams of 3, with Ewen leading the guys; it was a beautiful route with some elegant moves and I thoroughly enjoyed the problems. Overall I think it added up to 4 pitches (?) in length, the hardest of which were contained within pitches 1 and 2. There are opportunities for harder variations of the route (which we of course found ourselves climbing since it was Martin leading!) The summit >>>

Hatten

Dato:

14.01.2012