Sweden's West Coast: A Wedding and Extracurricular Climbing

Last weekend we went to a family wedding on the west coast of Sweden, in Stenungsund. The wedding ceremony took place on Saturday afternoon, so we managed a morning sport climbing session on Saturday and a brief bouldering tour on Sunday.

Sport climbing near Stengungsund. Very fun, though short, schist cliff.

Sport climbing near Stenungsund

View across the way from the cliff

Site of the wedding

View from the reception hall

Fisher cabins

The bride and groom arrive by boat.

Jakob "Wild Pony" Strömner graciously tours us around his legendary haunts near Stenungsund.

So solid, bro'. So solid.

Sweden!

Iceland Express stops in Reykjavik. Where are all the trees?

Ah! Back in Sweden!!!

Svenskpotatis

Into the forest to find some cantarella mushrooms

Not in Utah anymore

Cantarella mushrooms

Moose print

More cantarella mushrooms

Raspberries aka Hallon

Local (and really good) bouldering at Dye. Though water was actually running down the holds, the Swedes insisted it was dry. "It's amazing what chalk will do."

Indeed we could climb!

Swimming and leisure at Vänern

Vänern, Sweden's largest lake

Back in Dye. A cinematographer filming himself cleaning up the bottom of many problems

Classics In Dye from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

A video from David on Dye's classics

Tickets to + from Scandinavia July-Sept

I just completed the purchase of a mulit-city ticket combo heading from Bozeman, Montana in the middle of July, to Boston, Massachusetts for a week, and then to Tight Pants, Sweden for a few months -hopefully with a lot of climbing in Bohuslän, on Sweden's west coast.

Turkey/ JoSiTo

Getting ready to head back to Arlanda/ Stockholm by bus
Karlstad bus station
E 18

Waiting for the 2:45 am first flight to Turkey

Visa

Batman

Busting out of Antalya, heading for the hills

En route to the mountains/ JoSiTo

Favorite beer here

Catching some shut-eye

Checking out the Umgebung

Post 45 or 50 hours of travel in four or five days

Getting ready for Everest

Man in the bar

Manning the bar

Home for seven weeks

Post red-eye from Sweden, 95F/ 35 C

Working in the kitchen

Haircut