Leo Bøe, who since 2023 has done a dozen 9a's, has had some great days in Flatanger sending another three 9a's during the last two weeks. (c) Adri Martinez

Little Badder (9a); "Was hard for me to complete this climb as it had 1 stopper move in the last crux. I fell in the top crux 6 tries in a row. I had to be fully rested to do the span-move, and in the end it went when I had optimized the rests before. Cool to finally send this athletic climb!!"

Illusionist (9a); "Fun to solve this puzzle and find the perfect beta. I almost only fell in the big span move before the roof, but when I finally stuck that I climbed Illusionist to the top! Was cool to share this with a motivated crew!!"

Valhalla (9a); Finally dared to try this endurance test. Thanks to a good crew and sharing betas it went down so quick! Doug & Josh also sent the two following days! 💥

Domen Škofic has done Little Badder (9a) in Flatanger and now he has started working on Move (9b). ”I’m enjoying the process of working on Move. It’s going amazing at the moment:)”

With Jorge Diaz-Rullo (who took the picture), Stefano Ghisolfi and Seb Bouin at the scene, it is an amazing line up in the cave, although Alex Megos just left.

Can you tell us more about Little Badder?
It’s incredible that this route is not that much endurance based even though it’s approximately 50 meters long. It has so many good knee bar rests that it’s more challenging to stay focused on doing two very cool athletic cruxes perfectly with a nice flow. The only thing I disliked about this route is that it gets wet quickly and can stay wet for a long time. I basically send it the first good/dry day since arriving here. The other days I could focus on working the Move which stayed dry most of the time so I took adventure of every day :)