Winteralpinism in Rondane Nationalpark

[kobbold]

Hallo from Germany and the Alps

2 Years ago I do a normal wintertrip to the Rondane nationalpark. At that time I fall in love with some of the walls there. And now I wanna to go back at february next year to climb there.

The problem is to get informations about the possibilities of winterclimbs (mixed and ice) in this area, I found only informations about iceclimbing in Rijukan. But I am interested in classic north faces, and a little bit in iceclimbing but more in walls.

Do you know some trip reports from people who climbed there? Exists any literature about climbing in Rondane( sommer or winter is equal). Or do anybody winterclimbing by himself there?

At the moment I am not really sure whats possible because I read that the stone is really fragile. I have no idea how fragile (I climb often fragile rock, and in winter its all frozen, but all write its really, really fragile sandstone).

Except the north face on Rondslottet I don’t find good pictures of the walls till now. So if anybody know where I can find good pictures of walls it would be nice. Or the name of local climbers would be very helpful too.

Ah I am most interested in the area around the Rondvatnet lake.

If anybody can help me a little bit it would be so nice.

Grettings

Jesko

[etor]

Hi.

I don't know of anybody who winterclimbs there. Ask the local accommodation.

http://www.mysuseter.com/in-english

http://rondvassbu.turistforeningen.no/cabin.php?ca_id=94&fo_id=3777&lang=eng

I know there are possible to climb ice, and some mix in Drivdalen:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/ - click the map and scroll on to Rondane, and then go west.

http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=17433

If you come up, I'll be interested in joining in on iceclimbing in drivdalen. I also know there are some shorter crags by Otta, but i haven't taken a close look.

Also, check out:

http://www.rondane-dovrefjell.no/en/

[glennybig]

If would have chosen Hurrungane, Jotunheimen for winter alpine climbing. A lot of serious routes well documented in "Klatrefører for hurrungane" and online.

[Lars M]

Some years ago I spent a couple of days at Rondvassbu in the winter. I did not do any ice climbing, but I saw a couple of waterfalls from creeks coming down to Rondvattnet, where I suppose, it would be possible to ice climb. Especially I remember a waterfall on the eastern side of Rondvattnet maybe one km north of Rondvassbu. It looked very fine, but however I would say, there is too little to come all the way up to Rondane only for this.