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A slightly earlier wake up on day 2 and a quick drive over to the start of the short (~15 minute) hike to the main goal of the trip. Apparently, we should’ve gotten up 30 minutes earlier as we found a team of two working their way up pitch 1 of the Vestpillaren, a 12 pitch N6. We waited around a bit trying to get a pitch of separation between us before starting up. The team turned out to be two, strong, and friendly Norwegian girls (a trend for our trip?). We once again enjoyed the social aspect and were happy that there were no other climbers on the route; though 2 different parties were doing another line that crisscrossed ours a couple of times. The difficulties on the route are quite sustained indeed and some of the upper 5 pitches were pretty damn hard for us (some A0) especially once the sun hit the face on what would turn out to be the hottest day of the trip. Other than the bolted belay stations on the first 5 pitches, the route is very trad, including a somewhat runout slab traverse exit. We topped out via the grass gully pitch and enjoyed the views without the usual urgency to get down (no darkness to worry about). The descent involves a long scramble along the ridge (the rope came out a couple of times) to eventually intercept a hikers’ path which is actually pretty unpleasant if there’s any wind as it’s super dusty.
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