Pending the impending kat-card, here’s quick update on our climbing activities so far in the Dolomites… We drove to the Dolomites via Arco on Sunday, to suss out a good weather default because of poor forecast for the Dolomites. But Monday didn’t dawn too badly so we set of for Cinque Torre, just to play safe.
The next day we did a route on this amazing tower, which is the on the cover of the Italian Dolomiti guide book….
And the next day, the rain drops come! But really it’s no big deal. The Cinque Torre are full of easy grade IIIs and IVs with big iron pegs everywhere, it is no big problem to get off in the wet! 🙂
But Tuesday, the weather stayed bad. We were back at the Cinque Torre. We were about the only people there.
There is an almost unlimited array of climbing to go at – like this big diedre today on which we ran out of time before the last cable car. Hopefully more on that later… 😉
Series - Dolomites 08
- Dolomite Update
- Monte Poperna Basso
- Postcard from the Dolomites
Looks like you’re having a great time – wish I was there – we’ll have to give the Dollies another go (soon)!
It looks great Terry, can I borrow your guide book some time?
Yeah Anna, you may be able to buy 😀 my guide books on ebay next week, albeit a little wet, after today’s epic 😯
We returned to the Boeseekofl first thing, to see the cable car disappearing into the cloud. Question was, was the climb in the cloud or above it ❓
Well, discretion once again won and certainly saved our lives today. 🙄
We returned to Cortina thence Missurina for a relatively safe climb, low down and about an hour from the road – a big diedre on Monte Popena Basso. 😎
However, a couple of pitches up, raindrops came and Bernie’s on a traverse out of the Diedre. 😥 Then the full blown storm started, hail, thunder and lightening. The whole climb became a waterfall 👿 fortunately we took the radios as a trial. 😀 I tell him to climb up to the next stance and I’ll join him for rappel. 🙂 But 😈 , there are no anchors. 😯 By this time the water from the Deidre is running down my neck and my ledge is covered in hail. ❗ Bernie threads a manky chockstone with the yellow rope and downclimbs as I take in on red. A hairy feat, since all the holds and ledges are covered in hail. 😥 It took ages and we were freezing and soaked. 😥
But he made it back ok and we rappelled safely to the ground, soaked to the skin! 🙄
But imagine if we’d have been 6 pitches up the Boeseekofln, with a complex descent, had we even made it up. 😥
Needles to say, much chocolate cake and beer followed. :yum: :yum:
[Ed. check out this report on Monte Poperna Basso…]
Wow Terry. Sounds like an epic and a half.
Reckon you need a rest day after all this adventure.
have no fear Terry we are comming to the rescue/ tee shirts, shorts, and 2 months of sun take care and hang in there till Wed
Hey Keith, let’ s hope the weather improves for you 😛 It wasn’t too bad but, as you will have gleaned, you didn’t want to be up to high or too far 😀
Anyway, may catch up with you during August 🙂
Che cosa si può raccomandare salite da fare sul Tre Chime?