Back in September, Andrew Cherry and I climbed the Storpillaren on Vagakallen in Lofoten. We split it into two days with a very chilly bivvy, sans sleeping bags on pitch 11, during which we discovered Taylor Swift was the unexpected but vital third team member.
Excellent - looks quite challenging. Some nice shots on this blog - http://oskaralexandersson.blogspot.com (about half way down). I'd be wanting to bivvy w/o a sleeping bag that near the arctic in september. A little too character building!
I had a look at the face when I was over there in June. It is all pretty intimidating. We tried (and failed) to psyche ourselves up enough to try one of the much easier routes on myggpillaren.
@pneame - character building crossed my mind at the time! The rope mats weren't quite as effective as we'd hoped. Those pics are awesome! Think those guys are on Freya - now thats real hardcore stuff! @davidbeynon - Thanks, we prayed to the northern gods of precipitation. The Myggpillaren looks ace, although I heard the descent is still a bit of a nightmare too - even if you do get a slightly shorter descent path!
My big memory of Norwegian descents is doing an endless highstep through that scrubby tree thing that grows to about 1.5 ft in height - brutal on the knees. That and lichen covered slabs above drops of a rather ill determined nature, of course.
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