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Climbs 441
Rocktype Basalt
Altitude 326m a.s.l
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Bollywood, Kolsås © Lee Harrison

Crag features

Oslo's oldest climbing area and the most developed in the area with over 200 routes. A good mixture of trad and sport routes on a variety of rock types.

The routes range in height from 12 to 60m with the Østveggen containing the longest routes. The most popular areas are Nedre Sydstup (mainly sport) and Øvre Sydstup (trad).

Major sectors:

Øvre Sydstup - All the way to the top. Single pitch routes around 25m height. Popular and excellent trad climbs on solid rock. Sometimes there are courses at weekends in vicinity of Hollywood. The rock here is rhomb-porphyry.

Nedre Sydstup - Long wall below the top wall. Loose trad routes, and more recently developed popular sport routes at the left hand end. The crag can be busy at weekends due to the broad range of low and mid grades and closely spaced bolting. The rock here is basalt.

Den Skjulte Veggen - Take a right after stairs. Redeveloped in recent years, with a good selection of routes that get afternoon shade.

Østveggen - East facing wall. Primarily long trad routes, including multipitch. Also some sport routes. Some suspect / loose rock but some good routes nonetheless. Expect some adventure on some of the less-travelled trad routes. Dries very quickly and gets limited seepage. The routes at the left end have a conglomerate band in the lower part, with basalt in the upper part. Further right, the routes are conglomerate in the lower part and rhomb-porphyry in the upper part.

Dalbokollen - An isolated buttress north of Østveggen. East facing. Rarely visited due to loose rock. Multipitch trad routes. Bird banned until the middle of July normally due to nesting birds (see below).

 

Approach notes

For all sectors except for the left-hand end of Nedre Sydstup: Take the T-Bane to Hauger on the Kolsås line. Or park at the top of Toppåsveien. Elsewhere on a lot of streets the parking is forbidden. Follow the path that continues from Toppåsveien.

For the left-hand end of Nedre Sydstup: Take the T-Bane to Kolsås and cut into the woods on Mosebakken by the stadium and carpark. Parking here is fine, although can fill up at weekends

Restricted Access

Dalbokollen is bird banned between 15th March and 15th July. 

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