Description

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The Vaarala topo consists of a single distinct area: Vaarala West. It has a long history of climbing on it and is quite long and tall for a bouldering wall (~5-6m at it's highest points).

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The style of climbing at most sectors is crimpy, technical, slabby and delicate. The new sectors have some overhanging and powerful routes as an exception. A ton of Vaarala's boulder problems are still projects, awaiting for their first ascender. All of the sectors are in the shade, and thus are nice to climb on during hotter summer days! Conversely, drying takes a longer while.

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Sadly, due to a lack of climbers, many of the boulder problems at the crag have fallen into disrepair. Most classic of problems still in a climbable shape, but many others will need a proper steel-wire brushing to be made climbable!

History

Vaarala is a classic crag that has had climbing activity since the early 2000's, if not earlier. Vaarala (West side sector) used to have a topo of it on Lyseo, before it's inevitable demise and digitization into 27 Crags. The updating and upgrading of the topo was done in 2025 by members of VUK ry, during their efforts to upgrade the better quality climbing areas in Vantaa without a premium topo into premium crags.