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Nice work Greg + Jeff!

For any interested more info (albeit now 7 years out of date so pre-dating Senja as 'the place to be' for winter adventures) here https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/lavagen_ice_climbing_photo_rep...

Brilliant

Wow, that's productive! Sounds like an amazing trip.

I've been following their progress day by day by Greg's instagram and Facebook posts. The photos of the climbing are interesting because on some of the routes they appear very turfy (hence like Scotland) but almost rime- and snow-less (different to Scotland!). Not your standard alpine dry tooling look, but also not your UK winter look either.

A friend in Tromsø (not far from Senja) was saying it hasn't snowed their since Christmas - so they are having an exceptionally un-snowy winter, but it is cold. I think Greg and Jeff struck gold for climbing conditions currently, but its good that they weren't there to ski also!

Yah. I’ve heard skiing isn’t that great at the moment. But Climbing is. Papert and Pafft are in Senja now BTW. 

Timely article on Senja skiing in the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-ski-vacation-is-better-than-yours-norways-s...

Can you read that? Annoyingly it's telling me I need to subscribe, and I'm not subscribing to the holy scriptures of the neoliberal transglobalist bourgeois elite - the WSJ!!! You're not a member of the neoliberal transglobalist bourgeois elite are you Natalie...?

Dude, you think I DON'T follow Ines on Instagram?! She's my idol!

d00d... she signed my m00b a few years back...

Ok, she didn't but I was about to ask .

Wow so much snow in Southern Norway. Don't think anybody's got near the mixed alpine stuff in places like Hemsedal due to the amount of snow around.

Impressed by their stamina - cranking out hard new routes day after day after day. 

Totally, I feel pleased with myself when I walk up the Ben two days in a row. And some of those lines looks absolutely amazing.

To be fair, many of the walk-ins in Senja are pretty moderate by Scottish standards... cliffs somewhat bigger and steeper though!

I can read it but don't subscribe! Maybe I passed some sort of test...