Description

🧗‍♂️ SPORT:
Backnäs is a small crag with some high-quality routes. Purple Haze, Molotovin Coctail and Spitfire are all athletic climbing on exceptionally smooth granite and thus highly recommended!

🧗‍♂️ BOULDER
The bouldering in the area is under development by Tim De Maziere, Hanna Vartia, and friends.
Please do not climb boulders which are not marked here YET, they will be opened and published soon.

The area still has a lot of potential, some of which brushed already. If you really want to get some FA's done, go for the unmarked routes on (the right side) of Kaudi, the marked project on FFFA or the sitstart to the photo-friendly Pikkujätti. If you want to help brushing and opening, you can get in touch with Tim at Tim@27crags.com

⚫ Kaudi
Is a nice vertical wall with 5's and 6's. Landings are good and the height is nice. Not too high, not too low. Landings are flat and good. On the left side, Kumina and Huijairin halkeama give two options which are just the a higher.

⚫ FFA
Is just a 2 min walk up from Kaudi and offers some technical 6's and open project on slopers and crimps. There is potential for 2 or 3 more easy lines (grade 3-4)

⚫ Sunny
Is, as the name might suggest, a Sunny place with 4 boulders. Nothing has been opened on Sunny 1, but there is at least one obvious line - brush away!
Sunny 2 (photo above) is a stunning looking block. Pikkujätti would get 3 stars for it's grade for sure if it were a little less sharp.
Sunny 3 has a few lower but enjoyable crimpy problems
Sunny 4 has potential for a traverse
Sunny 5 has'nt been brushed or opened, feel free to do so.

History

Backnäs was developed in in 2004-2007 by Jyrki Korpelainen and Jari Koski.
The original topo: http://www.kolumbus.fi/click.vroom/lyseosipoo.html

Jyrki, Jari and others also opened many boulders, but the area never got much attention and the information got lost over the years.

The bouldering potential was found again by Hanna Vartia and Tim De Maziere in March 2020. When the FA is marked in 2020, chances are high the problem had been done back in the day, but the name and FA are unknown.

Routes on Backnäs
5 sport 48 boulder 19 Likes
Premium topo by BCKNS
Hanna Vartia
from Europe
Sampsa Jyrkynen
from Helsinki
Jari Koski
from Helsinki, Finland