Today we had a great day at Presten (the Priest), a 400m granite wall just outside of Henningsvaer. The west pillar is probably one of the most famous climbs in the whole of Norway and it´s a perfect warm up in the start of every climbing season to get milage on perfect rock! 

Tobbe and Oscar reaching storhylla (big ledge), the half way mark on Presten

Morgan sending

Myself taking a snapshot while climbing

Morgan on slanting corner 

Tobbe doing some hip belaying 

The crew for the day

Tobbe and Eva: The biggest and the smallest persons in our class – wonder why! 🙂

After a rainy rest day yesterday we went to Råna today for some mountaineering boots training. It was a good but very windy day followed by more mountain rescue training. It´s great to be back on the rock after a long winter! 

Roadside mountain feel – Råna outside of Svolvaer

Morgan on the first pitch 

Oskar and Tobbe 

Morgan again 

Beautiful Svolvaer 

Climbing with ocean ambiance  

It was really windy 

The crew for the day: Oskar, Tobbe, Morgan and myself 

Tobbe rapping 

Here is the interview with me at the Epic TV studio in Chamonix the other week… It was awesome to be the first guest in the show and I had a great time together with Trey and the guys in the studio!

Check out more on the Epic TV concept at www.epictv.comor blog.epictv.com! 

This morning we woke up to a beautiful day with snow covered mountains. Even though it was cold the sun did its work  on the south facing rock and we went up climbing in the morning and then practiced rescue skills in the afternoon… Another good day out… 

The snowy approach in the morning

Morgan on Fyre Försök

Tobias climbing with Henningsvaer in the backdrop 

Oskar climinb Skilöperen, it was really cold and wet 

Morgan on Lundeklubben

Morgan on another belay 

Beautiful Henningsvaer 

Oskar and Tobias training 

The boys working hard 

It felt weird to drive north in May without skis, but now its time for guide courses in Henningsvaer, Lofoten, Norway…. Rain and snow awaited me here, and its pretty far from optimal climbing conditions, but we are not really worried. One day of ok weather will dry the rock in no time. On the way up I stopped by at Riksgränsen for a short meeting with the Haglöfs crew… 

Torne träsk, one of the biggest lakes in Sweden… 4th? 

Met up with friends and kick as photographer Daniel Rönnbäck

Myself, Susanne Palm, Carl Hård and Jacopo Bufacchi 

Magic weather awaited in magic Lofoten

Entering Henningsvaer

Warm welcoming from Tobbe, Morgan and Oscar

Ale solving some problems

Emil Arvidsson on the move

Myself…

Jimmy Sundin playing

Emil enjoying… 

Sometimes in life doing something hard and painful or just boring gives back wonderful rewards – the law of contradictions at play…