The original plan was to check out the Southwest ridge route that we had climbed a few days prior. Once below the South face I put in a long traverse over to the ridge making a catch line if I wanted to do multiple laps of the area. After arriving on the flat bench in the middle of the face I stopped at the spot where I needed to crampon up. Being solo I needed to make sure the snowpack was safe so I dug a pit on the slopes and nothing moved but there was a lot of windloading where I was. Not feeling happy with my results I dug out an isolated column and skinned directly above it cause in to fail on a week layer. Knowing that the route wouldn’t be safe I turned around and rode back to my lower skin track.

Once back on the lower skin track I decided to climb Sjufjellet via the standard route cutting switchback after switchback on the crux before making it to the upper basin still an hour before sunrise. The snow up high was knee deep as I broke in the skin track and visibility was pretty terrible. After around an hour of brutal work I finally arrived on the summit waiting for the forecasted weather window. My hope was to ride down basking in the morning alpenglow.