Training for climbing
Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
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Crunchy Frog
Where’s it gone…?
An Alpine start, we got up extra early this morning to catch the 6.10am lift up to the Aiguille du Midi. Our plan was to climb Chere Gully on the Triangle du Tacul, but by the time we got there someone had taken away the Triangle du Tacul. In fact someone had taken away everything! …
What time is the last train?
After waking up to a beautiful morning, late as usual, I was keen to get out after two days cooped up in the apartment. After a hasty breakfast, we (Paul, Laetitia and Pete; Boris went to climb some ice somewhere on the glacier) drove to the train station to grab a train up to Montenvers. …
Ladders
Well Kats, talking about ladders, how do you like this via ferrata ladder on the Boeseekofel, near Corvara, Dolomites? Quite scary!
Punta Col de Varda, Misurina
Nobody told Bernie it was an abseil descent!! Bernie does a nice pitch, high on Punta Col de Varda. End of a perfect Dolomite day, Cinque Torre. What more can you say….??
Laetitia gets the Swiss Army knife out…
Laetitia contemplates a knife? (photo by Paul) Pete’s plan A today seemed to also be plan A for every beginner in the valley. We approached Valorcine and found it heaving with would be climbers. Every route was occupied by young students learning the ropes. Crowds of beginners! We managed to find a route that isn’t …
La Grande Dalle d’Amone
Yes this slab (sorry, wall, Terry) was “Grande” and great fun too. Although I think we got off route a bit at one point finding ourselves in the middle of very blank slab some way above the last protection! But that isn’t surprising, we had no guidebook, just Paul’s vague recollection of the route from …
Plan B
Paul and Boris We said we’d get back to Le Chapeau (it was good last time) – and today the poor forecast coupled with our forgetting the guidebook meant we needed a plan B; Chapeau… Paul, Boris, Laetitia and Pete grabbed four excellent granite slab routes before today’s thunderstorms started. Testing moves on a 6c …