Never get up late, or B late.

So, getting up late in Norway never works well. Mother Nature in Norway has a different approach to humans. You either respect the guide lines or you may see a side of her you don't want to see.

Last night tea lay heavy and kept us under the covers.

Yummy.

We never really decided that the Bølgen area was going to be the start point of our day, but it just turned out that way.

Before we could get out the road had to be cleared.

Tractor man arrives to blow the snow away.

Setting off under a heavy bank of fog descending down the valley at around not the right time 10:30. We arrived at the turn off just outside of town, guess what, yep,we passed it. So turning around we headed down the track over the river and into red neck country. Pretty interesting rd, with some amazing homes, typical norwegein style.

Looking up at Bolgen, it was impressive without a doubt. One impressive feature is the walk in, in norwegein terms a good hour at least. The walkin only looked about half an hour but we have good experience of how deceiving it can be. So we reckon we would arrive around 12:30 geared up ready to go. This route is a 3* route at the grade of WI3, BUT. But being based on what we could see from the road and the way Mael had materialised on Sunday I reckon it was a stiff WI4 due to the thinness of the pitches. So all in all, the climb being a four pitch route and the only way off being an abseil of at least four abbs we would be home well past dark. Ok, back in the Fabia. 

We're off to Ozzimosis. Arriving at the parking spot on the hair pin bend only one car is parked up. Cramps on for the mega steep decent into the bowl we head on in. Only one couple at the crag when we arrived, usually pretty busy due to its location especially at weekends.

A little thinner than normal, but great climbing. First routes mine, done this route many times and it's always different as each year goes round.

Last year were the ropes run was out to the edge, a lot fatter in previous years.

Quite a bit of snow on the tier sections, had lots of snow last night.

Onto the good stuff,

Dean takes the second lead, a lot steeper than it looks. Great route, lead out into the woods at the back.

Steep section.

Second on the route, nice climb with good solid ice.

A little bit of an advertising pic. The basic message is, this jacket has been designed by Arc,Teryx to do a job. First, the long cuffs are designed to cover your gloves and prevent ingress, which it does very well. The next advert is for RAB, what a great pair of gloves these are. The RAB Alpine glove, polartec tops with goats skin palms. Four days in and the gloves are still well intact. I've had previous gloves which couldn't stand the constant axe movements and fell to bits, so at present RAB is on top for active ice gloves.

Next route is situated on the lower tier of Ozzimosis, bit less crowded as a Swedish guide has turned up with four clients, nice chap got on really well. We all chatted and past the time with General climbing   

talk.

My second lead, great route. This route runs out for a full 60m to the trees.

Abseiling off the last route of the day.

Next stop, coffee shop in town. Coffee and chicken sandwich, amazing.

So, who's this guy. Not to sure other than we see him nearly every year. We saw a picture in the coffee shop of the guy, an absolute legend.

Back at the hut, more snow.