Ísalp | Íslenski Alpaklúbburinn

The Westfjords are divided into: Barðaströnd, Arnarfjörður, Dýrafjörður, Ísafjarðardjúp and Hornstrandir

A very accessible guidebook has been made for the area and all the information here com from there. The guidebook was first printed in ÍSALPs annual magazine 2015 and a PDF versoin can be found here.

The ice climbing routes in Arnarfjörður are of all shapes and sizes, from WI 2 up to WI 6 and from 20m up to 400m. The mountaintops are in 500-600m altitude so there are some potentials for even longer routes.

Most of the registered routes was climbed in the Ice climbing festival in 2009 and 2015 but in between there was a foreign team that did quite a few first accents (Kitty Calhoun/Jay Smith and co 2014).

Most of the obvious lines in sectors B, C and D have been climbed. Sectors A and E-I have barely been touched even though one line here and there has been climbed.

A Bíldudalsfjall

A1 Thread Bear or Threadless – WI 4
A2 G20 – WI 4
A3 Skolli – WI 4+
A4 Skuggabaldur – WI 5

B Svarthamrar

B1 Seiðskrattinn (The Warlock) – WI 5+
B2 Skotlínan – WI 5
B3 Firring (Alienation) – WI 5
B4 Vatnsberinn (Aquarius) – WI 6
B5 Kertasmiðjan – WI 5
B6 12″ Mottó – WI 4+/M 4
B7 Bíldudals grænar baunir – WI 4+
B8 Pirraði fýllinn – WI 4+

C Hvestudalur

C1 Hafmaður (Merman) – WI 4+
C2 Fjörulalli (Shore Laddie) – WI 4+
C3 Sæskrímsli – WI 4+
C4 Geitungur – WI 4+
C5 Nykur (The Nuggle) – WI 3
C6 Skeljaskrímsli – WI 3
C7 Grautnefur – WI 4
C7a Þorláksmessa – WI 4
C8 Fjandafæla (The Exorcist) – WI 5
C9 Rigor Mortis – WI 5+
C9a Catch and release – WI 4
C10 Skepnan deyr – WI 4
C11 Hrafninn flýgur – WI 4
C12 Glyðran – WI 4

D Innrihvilft

D1 Óðinn – WI 5
D2 Loki – WI 5
D3 Hrymur – WI 4
D4 Blindsker – WI 5
D5 Naglfar – WI 4+
D6 Musculus – WI 4+
D7 Skotfélagið – WI 4
D8 Jötnar – WI 5
D9 Fenrir – WI 5+
D10 Hel – WI 5
D11 Ragnarök – WI 3
D12 Bergmálið – WI 5
D13 Þjassi – WI 2
D14 The Tandem War Elephant – WI 5