Bouldering on Hægefjell (Nissedal)
Hægefjell revealing itself after have the way up the gravelroad
After a long journey from south Germany to Norway, I arrived at the first bouldering destination of my summer trip in 2022. Driving into the beautiful Nissedal and arriving at the Nisser lake, the weather was terrible, with rain and fog hindering the view. After about half an hour of driving around the lake, I arrived at the turn leading to Hægefjell. The gravel road up there is private, and you have to pay to go there. Please make sure to pay it along with the camping fee to ensure we all can continue climbing and bouldering there. When I arrived, the weather finally looked a little better, and the rain had stopped, so I went for a little walk to look at the boulders. Most of them were wet. But after the first night, I woke up to a beautiful blue sky without any clouds, and after breakfast, I did another walk to see if anything was dry. It turned out that most of the boulders dry relatively quickly, and I went back to the car to get the crashpads, and then I started warming up on the easiest boulders I could find. The first boulder I did was Fin sak 3+, an enjoyable technical slab, even though it’s only 3+. After doing another easy 5+, I finally got to some harder bouldering doing Gymnaslærer Pedersen 6b, which had a crimpy hard start and then some nice moves to get over the roof. On my first try, I pulled really hard and broke one of the starting holds. Luckily there was another crimp above the one I broke, so it didn’t change the boulder or the grade, and I managed to do the boulder.
Gymnaslærer Pedersen 6b
After doing another fun 5, I found this cool-looking Boulder called Rudsveien sit-start 7a, which was fun after having a lot of injuries in the months before the trip. I was really happy that I got that one done quickly. After that, I did another cool 6c at the side of the gravel road. If you want to see, me send these boulders and enjoy some fantastic landscape drone shots from Hægefell and the beautiful Nissedal. Then watch my youtube video about my first days in Norway.
Rudsveien sitstart 7a
There is an excellent guidebook about Hægefjell, which includes the bouldering as well as the multi-pitches. But if you don’t want to buy the guidebook or see the latest and newest boulder problems, go to the website gyttr.com. But keep in mind that you don’t have very good internet back in the valley, so make sure to check out the website before driving back there.
After three weeks in the north and on Lofoten with my brother, we stayed at Hægefjell for three days on the way home. We were fortunate with the weather, and in the first two days, barely any people were staying in the parking. Because we were climbing in the new climbing gym in Bergen the day before, we weren’t that fit anymore. But the motivation was there, and we just climbed some easier but fun stuff. On the last day, I did a cool-looking 6b+ (see the photo below), which I did twice because I wanted to try it barefoot. It took some tries, but in the end, I did it. The challenge wasn’t being barefoot, but the skin on the hands was so bad that it was hard and painful to do the sit start of the boulder. Spending the last few days in Nissedal with excellent weather was a perfect end to the one-month trip, but it also made it much harder to leave Norway and get back home.
Kloke tanker 6b+
If you ever go to Norway, I highly recommend going to Hægefjell. It has boulders and multi-pitches in a big range of grades. So there is climbing for everybody. Most of the boulders have excellent rock quality, and the scenery makes the bouldering even more fun. We weren’t climbing the multi-pitches, but I heard from other climbers that the climbing was just as good as the bouldering. The only downside is that you haven’t got a very good signal there, so if you don’t have the guidebook, check out the gryttr website for topos before you go there.
Check out my videos from Hægefjell to see the epic sunset we had in the last days there.
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