Description

140km (2 hours) from Umeå right pass the small Society Fredrika is this sportcrag that contains some scattered walls along a small mountainside.
Just park in the open spot next to the road that passes right below the crag. The climbing can be spotted from the road but it takes a good eye since there is a ridge covered with trees between the parking lot and the climbing walls. The approach is steep the first and last part but most over a flat clear cutting which is getting full of smaller trees by now. Total distance is ~350m (10 minutes) and the standard approach takes you to The Gift sector.

The height differs from very short routes (8m) up to 26m on Kungväggen. The angles vary but typically vertical to slightly overhanging (some steeper) with some smaller roofs.
The rock type is granite, the typical loose inland-granite common in this part of Västerbotten.
The climbing style is also quite typical with technical climbing on mostly small to medium crimps, a few slopers and not enough jugs.

There's a lot of work put in every route to remove all the loose holds/rock but stay alert and wear a helmet - things still fall off sometimes. There is still room for more routes here so routesmiths are welcome. We hope to reach 50 routes here within a few years, and hopefully the crag will see more traffic over time. The total potential is probably around 50-70 routes, or hopefully 80-90 with some variations and intermediate anchors.

For some reason all the new routes we put up here ends up 2 grades harder than expected, things look easy and feels harder once you started climbing. But the grades are adjusted accordingly and should be considered correct, as correct they can be when only a few climbers have climbed here. Keep commenting when you get up a route an time will tell! The bolting is friendly with stainless bolts and carbiner-anchors on all routes.

GEAR: 15 quickdraws and a 60m rope (50m rope takes you down most of the routes but could be a bit too exiting (short) on Kungsväggen). A clipstick saves at lot of time if you want to put up a toprope on something too hard (hangdog up) since the way around is quite a walk (and rappeling).

History

This crag was found by a private air reconnaissance team of old TKAK members Dan, Johan & +@+ in 2009.
We searched for cliffs around Umeå (well.. ...around = a really big circle) with a small Cessna and a really cooperative pilot which led us to these cliffs and the boulderfield below.

The development started a few after and the first routes at "The Gift" was bolted 2012. The progress has been a bit slow mostly due to the distance (2 hours from Umeå by car) and the offset location, and lets be honest, the quality of the crag isn't that great. The new routes takes time to clean due to loose and "flaky" rock.
But when all the work is done and the routes are finished the routes are decent and welcome in this area of the country where climbers have to travel quite a bit for bolted climbing.

There is still space for new routes so routesmith's are extra welcome!

Oh - the name theme of the crag is for some reason Game of Thrones related stuff. That's really corny isn't it? Well, history is history - we can't change it :-)

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Dan Knutsson
from Umeå, Sweden
Christoffer Lindberg
from Umeå
Magnus Eriksson Brändström
from Strömbäck - Umeå, Sweden