Buråsen

Climb close to the citycenter in beatiful formations. Routes are 12-30m

This is where the development of bolted sports routes started in Mandal. In 1996 Ole Karsten Birkeland and Andreas Loland carried a heavy powerunit, many meters of cables and a borrowed percussion drill up here. The weather was rainy, wich can be seen in the first bolted route named: "Vi trosset regn" (we defied the rain). With the release of the climbing-guidebook in 2005 (Sørlandsfører) the number of bolted routes was doubled. Some easy ones and most of the trad-routes was bolted later on.