So, breakfast done,flask made,bags packed lets hit the upper gorge. Really, was there something in the air last night that made you think you were beyond the laws of physics. Ok, let's try and drive this deluded set of rhythms called brain waves which are clearly disturbed running through your head.
Fact one, its F--king 8 degrees out there, fact two the rd is piss wet through, bollocks to fact three. So whats the plan, let's go upper gorge, ok sounds cool.
Called in at Rimi, got some dead reindeer to munch on. Parked at Krokan and were walking down the rd to the abseil point, this will be a two pitch abseil so escape from the pit of hell may be difficult if shit hits the fan AKA no ice no exit.
Basically it's this way, left.
Snows pretty deep, 2-3 feet in places.
Lipton is fully formed, but looks wet and chewy based on yesterday's jaunt.
Looking from the tourist gallery deep in the woods.
Based on what we see, which is a whole lot of pain we decide to move on. Rjukanfossen looks mega thin and not pretty. It's a no brainer,pretty obvious that once in the gorge we would be trapped with no way out, even the WI3 route on the exit wall looks ruthless if attempted.
Heading back to the car we decide to head back to Krokan and at worst run a top rope on some routes due to the ice quality deteriorating fast.
Krokan is pretty busy today, lots of vehicles parked in the car park and lots of groups.
Yep you guessed it, we're out of there. We've had a great week and were not looking for top rope routes so it's back to the hut for a couple of shots of Tullamore Dew and pray tomoz gets colder and meaner.
Oh yeh, before that we had to stock up on cake un coffee at the Kondatori.
Bit on the side, well funny sign. Love to see someone run down the Upper Gorge and out run this. One of those areas were a sign maybes not require due to being bloody obvious.
So, roll on last day in RJUKAN.
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