Gollum: perfect rock, perfect weather
One of the best days of the Norway trip — 105 metres of cracks, entirely clean.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Gandalf is the kind of crag that makes you wonder why you aren’t here more often. Five minutes’ walk in, and the wall dries almost immediately after rain.
Gollum is 105 metres through a series of cracks, and they’re everything you want cracks to be: continuous, clean, and you can place wherever you like. Entirely clean, not a single bolt needed. The belays are comfortable and you walk off — no rappels, no faffing.
Perfect rock, perfect weather, and we had the day to ourselves. One of the best days of our Norway trip, and the competition wasn’t weak.
We climbed Gandalf itself straight afterwards. Some days just run.