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I'm off to Norway in September. We're flying into Bergen, and out of Oslo 10 days later. It's not a dedicated climbing trip, but I'm trying to research what climbing might be an option for us. Interested in sport and trad with the priority being doing something cool in a nice place, not climbing something as hard as I possibly can.
Can anyone recommend a good guidebook?

In reply to cn210:

Somebody literally asked the same question about two weeks ago if you search back or use the forum search.

In reply to cn210:

There's a shop called UTE.no in Bergen, it has all the books you will need and helpful staff who know the area and speak english. Uskedalen has 300 to 800 meter trad routes on perfect granite, with huge scope for new lines, and there are thousands of single pitch sport and trad crags around Bergen.

In reply to Mr. Lee

Thanks, I'm not often on here.

In reply to Red Rover:

Brilliant, thanks for the heads up

In reply to cn210:

No problem. This is some info about Uskedalen

http://www.climbing.com/places/higher-calling-untouched-pristine-granite-do...

I was there on a perfect sunny weekend and saw one other team. Its as long as Stanage with a similar walk in, but hundreds of meters high! If you can climb around E2 ish then you could probably do your own new route rather than bothering with the guide. A lot of it is pretty run out, unless its a crack climb.

In reply to cn210:

Heyhey!

I posted this a while before (and check my profile to see 'recent posts' cos I might have posted in a couple of other threads with related content):
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=636497&v=1#x8255846

The Bergen climbing club have a bolted climbing guide and a trad climbing guide to Bergen (like Red Rover says), and a separate binder (pull-out-pages!) to the long multi-pitch slab routes at Uskedalen. Each guidebook is about £30, available at UTE. A full and complete database is available on their site:
https://www.bergen-klatreklubb.no
https://www.bergen-klatreklubb.no/forere/cragdatabase/cragdatabase.php
(if it helps, open translate.google.com/ and cut & paste those links into it, then click 'norwegian' and click the resulting link, which will auto-translate the page).

If you sign up for a year's membership you get full online access to everything (topos, maps etc all downloadable as .pdfs), otherwise you'll just see summaries in alphabetical order (not great for route finding!). Membership might seem expensive enough, but it probably costs the same as buying all three guide books. But then you'd be climbing with a mobile device instead of a guidebook - depends what you prefer. BKK have started compiling resources for bouldering guides – there's loads to be done, but it's not been gathered together in a single guide yet. Someone recently shared a guidebook (google translation for 'guidebook' seems to be 'driver') that they made for a nice bouldering area up on the side of Bergen's highest mountain (Ulriken) next to a lake called Stemmevatnet:
https://www.bergen-klatreklubb.no/common/forer/Buldreforer-stemmevatnet.pdf

https://www.27crags.com has areas listed for Norway – it's not a great site, but people seem to be using it and adding to it.

Reply here / get in touch if you want to ask anything, want more tips/ideas – seems like there are quite a lot of Norway / Bergen UKC'ers, nice to see it getting more mileage on this site.

In reply to joeruckus:

that first link shouldn't have httpS -
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=636497&v=1#x8255846

In reply to joeruckus:

Thanks, that's a really full reply. I'll definitely look into those options and see what I can find.