Climbing in the north

Last week I was visiting my grand parents in the north Sweden. I was not only relaxing at their house or on their boat I also did some climbing.

Two times I climbed at Niemisel, which is one of the best sport climbing cliffs in Sweden and especially for hard climbing.

First time it was 27 degrees in the shadow and the wall is facing south so it was unbelievably hot! Just climbed some easy stuff; it was too hot for me.

Second time was a bit better, mainly because we were there a lot earlier, which made climbing much nicer. I tried a 7c called Great Blondino, which is a long and pumpy route without any real hard moves. Not my style, the fewer move the better…;-)

I was struggling with keeping the pump away but I got one really good try one. On the last ‘hard’ move I put my foot too high in a huge crack and in the middle move my foot popped and I fell of…

Anyway I will be back soon, it’s such a good cliff.

The boulder session went better, even if the mosquitos almost killed us, I was able to do one 7A+ and one 7B quite quickly.

In Stockholm I also had two training sessions at K2, it was great to be back. I also felt stronger than I have done on quite a while, so that was really fun.

Pictures 1 and 3 Maria Krumlinde Picture 2 Miranda Jiglund