Rainy Kjuge

Clouds come and go as they want. This time they didn't go anywhere. Wet drizzle made anything else than 4th grade unclimbable. Bad luck, but it didnt stop us. In the pic starring Syra 4, first of the L-circuit. A nice one! No use for chalk.

Kluvna Sten is huge!

Under the leaf roof were still some dry holds, or let's say moist, but topping too desperate.

I can believe that during early spring or very late autumn this place can give awesome kicks. The topo is very high quality. Easy to read and enough photos to give essential beta.





More slab.

Huge!! On the other side of that piece of rock is the Linds långa linje.

 

Art pictures by Lauri. Even the bug seemed to look for a better shelter from the rain.

And here we have the Best picture from Kjuge. Wind blew from east, so west side of the big blocks were still dry. Good, good. There is so much to climb in Kjuge. Have to go back.

Knutby

Our first destination on the rock trip was Knutby. It happened to be nicely on the way to Kjuge, close to Linköping. According to the info that was aviable in the net, the place was described to be a really nice one (Ett väldigt fint ställe). So why not going there then.




Lauri sending!!!

And the topo was correct. It was a really nice spot, not actually really far from Stockholm. It was good to send something on the way, kind of warm up for Kjuge.. (and good that we did, cos Kjuge was rainy all the time). The hardest send was surprisingly a 6b+ slab. Otherwise just having fun. I had one week break before the trip. Easy start. 

There is also a major overhang, well, perhaps next time. Have a look at the topo here. Altogether I think that Knutby is a gem and it would a perfect spot for one weekend bouldering trip. Two hours is definitely not enough!!

And you cannot drive 600 km distance on the motorway without good music.
Paul Kalkbrenner Gebrünn Gebrünn (Special Berlin Calling Edit)