The Mountain and the Wave

Croquis de la Josu Gartzia. Vista desde la playa de Laga. Día de nochebuena y la previsión da muy buena meteo así que toca madrugar un poquito para surfear en Bakio un par de horitas y en cuanto salgo del agua sobre las 11h hablo con Urko y nos ponemos de acuerdo para ir a trepar al cabo de Ogoño. Llevo más de un mes sin escalar en roca porque en Noruega hace bastante frío ya (alrededor de 0ºC) y nadie quiere escalar en esas condiciones así que estoy con muchas ganas de tocar roca otra vez. Es mi segunda vez en Ogoño y casi todas las vías son nuevas para mí, así que Urko me dice que quiere hacer la Josu Gartzia y después de mirar el croquis (y cerciorarme de que no es muy dura) enseguida le digo que sí. A las 12:30 me junto con Urko en el parking de Ogoño y cargamos cuerda, arneses, cascos y demás cacharros y comenzamos a caminar hacia la pared. Nada más comenzar a caminar comprobamos el cartel que indica el calendario de regulación de la escalada y vemos que ya ha comenzado l

                    Stine and Nor getting ready for the climbing.                   Amelia looking at them. "Finally man! Finally! I´m going ice climbing this weekend!" This was the message I sent to Plablo (see https://katuoinekin.blogspot.nl/) before heading to Golsjuvet, 5h drive eastward from Bergen and situated directly south of Hemsedal. This is my 3rd winter in Norway and for my climbing buddies in Baskerland is kind of a shame that I haven´t done any ice climbing yet. "WTF does people do there!!" as Pablo would say. I was totally convinced that this winter would be the one. It took some time to convince some folks to join but finally I managed. Friday afternoon Nor, Seb and me start driving from Bergen in Ameliatheadventurevan. At our arrival in Gol Stine (Seb´s local friend) gives us a really nice welcoming at her place. We drink some beers and talk about tomorrow´s plan looking at the guidebook. So many icefalls around here within 50km drive. This i

--------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIÓN EN CASTELLANO MÁS ABAJO --------------------------------------------------------------- Last weekend of January, looks like is gonna be a really crappy weather in Bergen. Nothing new right? Well, it is the first bad weather weekend this year, so nothing to complain about. This week has been quite warm (for Norwegian standards, still quite cold for southies) and the avalanche report (level 3) is not encouraging us to do anything steep or exposed. My 3 basic rules are in order of importance: 1) make it back home 2) do something cool in the mountains 3) do it with good friends/cool folks. Lander enjoying the pow in the steepest line in the forest. Since spending the whole weekend in town is never an option, I start the weekly process of making up a plan and convince some other guys that is a good one. I manage. We'll go for Storanosi (1205moh), a north facing mountain in Vasstrondi with quite fun