Iceland Beta?

[BootsandPants]

Heading to Iceland for two weeks; end of March/beginning of April. There's not a lot of beta out there for climbing and skiing objectives on the place, so even though it's a long shot I figured I'd ask here.

Have any of you all been there and recommend any climbing or skiing (or both!) objectives?

 

Cheers

 

 

[ivan]

there was an alpinist years back about all the quality ice-climbing to be had there

 

beware the white-walkers!

 

extra points for spotting bjork while there

[Pete_H]

Definitely report back. I'd be interested in the skiing there. Probably not much help but theres a somewhat ambiguous article about skiing there in the recent issue of Skiing magazine.

[mmeyers]

not much, but something (although, you probably found this already)

 

http://lazyhclimbingclub.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/iceland-part-1/

http://lazyhclimbingclub.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/iceland-part-ii/

http://lazyhclimbingclub.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/return-of-the-viking-iceland-part-iii/

 

 

[marcus]

Try this: UP-CLIMBING: ice-climbing in Iceland

 

Kaldakinn is on the NE coast, pretty much as far from Reykjavik as you can get, but is supposed to have the highest concentration of accessible water ice...good luck!

[BootsandPants]

Thanks for the links guys. I hadn't seen that one Marcus; good stuff.

Had some planning beers last night; going to be a rad trip. It's kind of nice not knowing what we'll find!

 

beware the bjork

Fixed that for you Ivan

[glassgowkiss]

there were some guys from Canmore AB climbing there a while ago, maybe ask on Will Gadd's page? (http://www.gravsports-ice.com/icethreads/). Also Chris Geisler from Vancouver climbed there a few years back.