We were all supposed to avoid crowds in 2020, meaning the safest place to climb would be new routes right? Following this logic, we climbed a couple new routs last season. The most noteworthy of these has been a 6 pitch route following a systems of dihedrals up a west-facing slab near Evanger (Between Bergen and Voss). We also found, cleaned and sent a fun offwidth crack on Sotra and some short seascliff crack lines. Here are the best bits:

Evangeliet 6+

We followed a line of diehedrals to the top of Herneshorgi (60.64120693035153, 6.07480285648896) , finishing with an A1 or 6+ freeclimbing overhang that now has a handy fixed nut. “Evangeliet” has around 6 pitches and comfy belay ledges all the way, we cleaned most of the loose rocks. Approach: 25 min from a car park next to the E16. Decent: 1h bushwalk down the ridge to the left of the wall, nice views :) The wall has potential for more routes and has surprisingly nice rock.

This big dihedral in pitch 3:

Achim scouting the laybacks in pitch 4/5:

Stack overflow 6

A short but worthwhile offwidth crack near the old wave power plant on Sotra. Bring some large cams and tape and shove your appendages in there!

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