Stigárdalur is a name I've
given to the unnamed valley east of the farms Hnappavellir. The river Stigá
comes from the glacier Stigárjökull and runs down this valley. Most of the
routes are on the west side of the river, but on the east side is Iceland's
second highest waterfall, Stigafoss 138 m. It needs very cold conditions to get in conditions.
There are more routes close to it. No one has climbed there yet.
Few hundred meters east of Hnappavellir
is 4WD track to get up there, but it can be tricky if there is snow on the
ground. (Some narrow streams that can be hard to get across).
This route is still unclimbed in January 2010. There are some big roof to clear
so this is a route only for grown ups.
This photo shows the biggest climbing area in
Stigárdalur. We call it Testofan (the tea room). It is in the far left side of
the valley. Routes a-g are in Testofan but route h is not.
a: Sléttubjargarfoss WI 5 60m climbed by Ívar, Einar and Dan Gibson on 4th of
March 1999
b: Leđursófinn WI 4+ 60m climbed by Örvar Atli Ţorgeirsson & Eiríkur Stefánsson
on February 25th 2000
c: Te fyrir tvo WI 4 climbed by Tómas Júlíusson and Karl Ingólfsson on February 25th 2000
d: Toni Klein and Marcus Danner climbing on February
25th 2000
e: American Beauty climbed by Pete Taketa and Dave Seldon on February 26th
2000
f: Hekla 2000 WI5+ 50m climbed by Rúnar Óli Karlsson & Ívar
Finnbogason on February 26th 2000
g: Dýflissan WI 4 - 60 meters climbed by Sigurbjörn Gunnarsson & Einar
Sigurđsson on February 26th 2000
h: Skrekkur WI 5 climbed by Páll Sveinsson og Hallgrímur Magnússon on
February 26th 2000
Closer to the car
Telöggin WI 3, 40 meters. Bergur Einarsson, Jón Árni Árnason og Harpa
Kolbeinsdóttir climbed this route on 25th of February 2000.
The route is on the left when we are walking up to
the main climbing area in Testofan.
So in the southwest corner of the valley Stigárdalu
There are couple of routes possible at the
start of Stigárdalur, in the mountain on the left when you walk up to the
valley. PapaRASSI is the biggest most obvious route
that you will see close to the end of the 4wd trail. I don't have a picture from
this route right now.
