Slettafjell · Slettafjell (Agder) · Norway
The classic bolted line on Slettafjell, a long, sociable slab day at moderate grades with fine views. Two easy pitches lead to steadily harder slab, with a 6a+ crux on the 50 m sixth pitch that you can pull through on the bolts. It finishes at a belay below the top of the wall, and you abseil the route.
Climbing mode: Big type, screen kept awake, tick pitches as you go.
Highest point about 700 m above sea level (estimate: terrain height at the mapped point plus the height of the route).
6a+VII-5.10b7 pitches · 285 mEasy to bail
Trygg og glad ('safe and happy') is the one fully bolted route on Slettafjell, a big slab wall in Åseral otherwise climbed on trad gear. It has seven pitches: two easy ones at Norwegian grade 3, then 4, 5 and 5 before the 6 (6a+) crux pitch and a 5+ (5c) finish. Fri Flyt names it one of the most classic lines on the wall, and a 2016 UKC post calls it well bolted and one of Norway's top bolted multipitches. Climbers on the 27crags/thetopo listing describe it as a beginners' multipitch with fine views. The bolted route ends four pitches below the top; the trad extension 'Trygg og glad helt hjem' continues to the summit.
The atlas doesn't show topos: they are the work of the people who bolt and document these routes. See the topo at thetopo/27crags – Trygg og glad, or in Brattelinjer: Slettafjell (online guide).
| Pitch | Grade | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | 3 | 30 m | Easy slab. Norwegian 3-. |
| P2 | 3+ | 40 m | Easy slab. Norwegian 3+. |
| P3 | 4bIV+5.5 | 45 m | Norwegian 4. |
| P4 | 5bVI-5.8 | 40 m | Norwegian 5. |
| P5 | 5bVI-5.8 | 40 m | Norwegian 5. |
| P6 | 6a+VII-5.10b | 50 m | The crux pitch, Norwegian 6. Expect rope drag on this long pitch. The crux is closely bolted and can be aided on the bolts. |
| P7 | 5cVI5.9 | 40 m | Norwegian 5+, the last bolted pitch. |
Slettafjell is in Åseral municipality, Agder, about 1.5 hours' drive north of Kristiansand. Kristiansand has the nearest airport and ferry port; you need a car. The brattelinjer.no database gives the parking point at about 58.7079 N, 7.5688 E.
From the parking, the mapped approach path on brattelinjer.no is about 425 m long with about 140 m of ascent, heading west up to the wall. The first belay of the route was posted in 2026 at 58.713133 N, 7.554489 E.
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The point marks the base of the route.
Coordinates · route base
Parking
Sector parking point on sorlandet.brattelinjer.no (Slettafjell)
Point from brattelinjer.no route coordinate: GPS of the first belay posted by a climber in August 2026
Contains the route point and parking.
Points from published sources, not surveyed.
Coordinates: 58.71313, 7.55449 (route base) · Parking: 58.70788, 7.56877
Abseil the route on two 50 m ropes. The route's anchors are also used by neighbouring routes (Halvveis til himmelen exits to them). A 2023 party warns that the position of the bolts puts a slight twist in the ropes on the abseil, and suggests leaving a carabiner or two on the way down.
Easy to bail
Abseiling the route is the normal descent, from bolted anchors on two 50 m ropes, so you can retreat from any belay. Parties have done exactly that in bad weather. Expect some rope twist.
Norway
112Emergency (police); passes mountain accidents to the rescue centre
Emergency (police); passes mountain accidents to the rescue centre
Position of the route base
58.71313, 7.55449
Say what happened, how many are hurt, and where you are. Checked October 2026 (sourceofficial sources).
12 quickdraws plus one 60 cm sling (brattelinjer.no). Two 50 m ropes for the abseil. Helmet. No trad gear is needed for the bolted route; the extension above needs a rack.
The wall faces north-east according to the database's calculated orientation, so expect morning sun and shade later in the day (inferred). Logged ascents run from late May to early October. It is a big wall in the hills: one party retreated in heavy rain, thunder and lightning, and another turned back in pouring rain at the sixth belay the day before succeeding.
Forecast · next 7 days · 700 m
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Model forecast for 700 m. It cannot tell you whether the rock is dry. Data: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
Time plan · 7 pitches
Working out sunrise and sunset.
An estimate. Queues and route finding cost time, and shaded walls go dark before sunset. Your device's time, flat horizon.
Sun on the wall · NE-facing
Working out the sunlit hours for this month.
Sun on the wallDaylight, wall in shade● Usual season
From the aspect alone; terrain is ignored. Your device's time, 15th of each month.
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May (usual season) | Jun (usual season) | Jul (usual season) | Aug (usual season) | Sep (usual season) | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Mean daily high °C | −1 | −1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 3 | −0 |
| Mean daily low °C | −6 | −6 | −5 | −1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | −2 | −5 |
| Rain days 1 mm or more | 17 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
● usual season. 1991-2020 averages at about 474 m; rain is for a 10–25 km grid cell. Weather and climate data: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
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Around 6a+ · about 7 pitches
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6a+VII-5.10b6a+VII-5.10b7 pitches200 m
Committing
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Researched and aggregated by AI from published sources, last compiled October 2026. It can be wrong, and bolts, anchors and access change: check a current guidebook and read the disclaimer.