Tenerife Climbing, Xmas 2022

Xmas and New Years on Tenerife, again in Poris de Abona.

Lot's of climbing and enjoying the sun and warmth, some hiking and trail-running and game playing.

Day 1: 21 Dec 2022
Late start, at around noon, because G had a call in the morning and we had to swing by the climbing shop to get the newest guide and some clothes. ;-)
Then, climbing at Tamadaya (of course).

The routes (numbers from the new local guide):

• 48 THC IV+ (Shocking how hard this felt… getting used to this rock, and being on rock at all, took a bit)
• 52 Spagat V
• 33 Prejucios V
• 30 Unicornio V-
• 29 El Piquéno Putliz V+
• 28 El Arbolito V
• 26 Universo Parallelo V+
• 27 La bavaresa me tiro 6a+ (Toprope)
• 35 Der Gummi 6a+ (A toprope)

Day 2: 22 Dec 2022
Climbing all day in Fantasma. 

Many of the routes, particularly in the middle of the gorge, are showing that they are loved. ;-)

The routes (numbers from the new local guide)

• 3 (V-)
• 4 (V)
• 5 (V-)
• Toprope play with the crack 3 and 4
• 63 (V)
• 62 (V)
• 59 (V)
• 61 (6a, toprope)
• 56 (V, G only)
• 52 (V+, G, A toprope)
• 42 (V)
• 41 (V)
• 37 (V-, trail running shoes G, A toprope in sandals)
• 38 (V-, trail running shoes G, A sandals, G speed climbing toprope)
• G: Playing on the face under the bolts from 38 in toprope… once through the face, once up the crack.

Day 3, 23 December 2022
Climbing  at Guasiegre Medio
This is a new, to us, area. It’s not in the new book, though the routes had clearly been up for a couple of years. Very quiet area, beautiful arena, entertaining 30 minute approach through the gorge.

The routes, numbers from website; they say the difficulties are provisional, and we can’t assess, so who knows:

• 2 Adventure airline (5a). Very 3D and fun
• 1 Dowistrepia (5b). Also 3D
• 3 Espolon walker (5b, both lead and toprope to do the crux nicer). Crux on a face
• Playing in toprope on the steep arete in front of 3
• G looked at 6 Dizfrazados, but it wasn’t clear if it’s actually bolted all the way to the top and the beginning looked sketchy and dirty
• 7 Amor e emancipacion (6a, G lead, A toprope). Very fun route with a physical bouldery beginning and a tricky bit of slab/crack almost at the end. This one was adventurous: it’s not mentioned in the topo, but the route is maybe 32m long and we have a 60m rope. So G had to setup a quick belay at the third bolt, and bring A up to him before she could toprope it. When A was done, G took and easy down climbing solution (*not* via the bouldery beginning!)

Day 4, 24 Dec 2022
Climbing  at Polegre
Since the style is different (slabbier) than yesterday, A decides to start with a 4. Her head isn’t in it, so she gives up. G goes up, finds it quite difficult as well, gets to the top with loads of “there’s no way this is a 4”. G comes down, checks the topo again, realizes that the route is actually a 6a+… nice warm up! A does it in top rope with different beta at the beginning. G tries to repeat that beta, breaks a hold, and can’t repeat.

Here there’s only the photos online; I’ll try to name the routes the same we did last time. 

• Sector 2: 2 (6a+, G lead, A toprope)
• Sector 2: 1 (V)
• Sector 2: 4 (V+)
• Sector 1:1 (V, G top rope a second time because it’s just so nice)
• Sector 1: 3 (6a)
• Sector 1: 12 (6a+, A top rope first, then lead. G lead, then top rope to try slightly riskier beta)
• Sector 1: 5 (V+, both lead, then G top rope to try riskier beta)

Day 5, 25 Dec 2022
Planned rest (from climbing) day. Trail run along the coast.

Day 6, 26 Dec 2022
Unplanned rest day. It rained like hell in the morning and was cloudy all day.

Day 7, 27 Dec 2022
Climbing at Tamadaya

The routes:

• 3, Aussie Oi (V-)
• 2, La via de Tito (V+, G found it surprisingly hard, A managed pretty easily, G repeated in top rope)
• 1, La croqueta (V+, neither of us could do this in lead, but we both managed in top rope.
• 6, La Cleta (V)
• 5, Donneiz mois la persoise (V+)
• 10, The flying fox (V+, we both really like this one)
• 15, El cedro (6a, both in lead)
• 47, Cross over (6a, G in lead, but he screwed up the beta at the very end and grabbed the chains, then we both did top rope) This is one we’ve been looking at and admiring every time we came, but this is the first time we had the confidence to try it.

Day 8, 28 Dec 2022
Climbing at Tamadaya. We had so much fun yesterday and now that 6a’s are on the table, there are lots of new routes possible.

The routes:

• 48, TCH (IV+, A only) we wanted to warm up on Flying Fox, but was being climbed
• 10, The Flying Fox (V+, both)
• 47, Cross over (6a, G in lead… no screwups this time. A top rope). This is a super nice route (thus its popularity). The transition onto the face seems tricky, but A found great beta for it. The face bit is super easy, with great feet and jugs. The very top is trickier.
• 43, Paquita Style (6a, A started the lead and then came down. G lead, then both top rope, A 2x top rope). Awesome layback section in the middle that took a bit of mental push to get through on lead.
• 40, Sin escaqueo (6a, A started the lead and then came down, G lead, then both top rope). The slabby part can be defused a bit by stemming. G’s initial solution was high effort and sketchy, but A found better beta later.

Gear note: G was climbing in a new pair of Tenaya shoes that he bought because his Katanas are developing a hole in the toe. The new shoes worked well.

Day 9, 29 Dec 2022
Climbing at El Hoyo. It’s fun to abseil into a climbing area. :-)

The routes:

• 21 Al loro con el berolo, (V+, both lead)
• 25 La jamonica, (V+, both lead)
• 24 Fisurini (V+/6a, G lead, both top, A top 2x). This seems more 6a than V+
• 27 … (6a+, both lead, A onsight, both toprope)
• 28 Vadefrente (6b, trying in toprope… G managed to do all the pieces in two different tries)
• 10 no name (V+, too greasy feeling at the beginning, we didn’t even really try)
• 17 El quinto pino (6a, getting to the first bolt feels really exposed and scary… gave up)
• 35 Aroa (6a+, another dodgy beginning, gave up)
• 46 La subida a la Guancha (6a, G lead, both toprope)
• 48 Kong (6a, G lead) G fell on this one but landed on his feet on a ledge without weighting the rope… does that count as onsight? ;-)

Day 10, 30 Dec 2022
Climbing at Guasiegre Medio
This time we approached from the top, which is a quicker/easier approach, though the parking is minimal (we were early).

The routes:

• 1 Dowistrepia (5b).
• 2 Adventure airline (5a).
• 10 Cuarto compartido (combined the 4c and 5b pitches into one). We called this the adventure route since it required some faffing around to avoid incredible rope drag. Oh, and there’s a 2m section of offwidth in the 5b part which reveals that we really don’t practice offwidths. Yikes. Andrea was complaining more or less constantly while doing it and then, immediately on finishing said: “that was fun”. Shyeah, type 2 fun. G was even more cramped in the crack and didn’t find it particularly fun. ;-)

We both had tired arms and heads from yesterday, so there wasn’t that much climbing.

Day 11, 31 Dec 2022
Hike

Day 12, 1 Jan 2023
Climbing in Tamadaya

The routes:

• 33 (V)
• 32 (6a, A gave up at the first bolt, G wasn’t motivated to try)
• 29 (V+, both lead), then G played around a bit with the start on toprope to try and get the super bouldery/slabby start right
• 19 (6a, both lead, A fell a couple of times at the crux)
• 20 (6a, G lead, A toprope)
• 21 (6a, G toprope). G took a detour around what seemed to be a really powerful crux move. So instead of super powerful he had to do a dodgy transition back onto the route
• 37 (6a, G lead, A toprope) fun route with lots of interesting movement
• 29 (V+, G lead) this time trying different beta from another couple for the bouldery/slabby start.

Day 13, 2 Jan 2023
Climbing in El Rio (first time here for us)

The routes:

• 94, (V-)
• 96 (V)
• 95 (V+), by this point the sun was too warm for G, so we moved further into the canyon
• 48 (V), fun route above a puddle (which the rope always landed in when pulling it down)
• 52 (V+) a bit adventurous since it was almost too long.
• 93 (V+, A toprope because it might rain), nice footwork route
• 91 (6a, A lead, G toprope because it was raining), nice route for footwork at the bottom and then a fun undercling corner at the top

This is a fun area to climb. Definitely worth going back to.

Day 14, 3 Jan 2023

Hike in El Medano and flight back in the afternoon.

We had planned to pack up, leave the flat and spend the morning climbing before driving to the airport in the afternoon.

However, it rained during the night and in the morning (not in the forecast), we checked out Tamadaya, but the rock was still super wet and it started to drizzle.....thus, quick change of plans and drive down to El Medano for a beach-walk.

Surprised at how busy and crowded El Medano was; hike along the promenade and beach (lots of wind- and kite-surfers), hike up La Montana Roja (lots of people), picnic lunch up to; hike back down and along the beach (even more surfers).

Just for fun here a map with tracks of all hikes and runs on Tenerife (2014, 2017, 2018, 2022).

:-)

Trailrunning Unterengadin

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Climbing the Eulengrat

The weather was good yesterday and we figured that Saturday's sun would have dried things out a bit, so we decided on a multipitch in the Jura: the Eulengrat.

The approach from Oberdorf is easy, with a giant cairn marking the turnoff from the main trail and a sign to point the way once you've gone up a bit. We had feared crowds, but when we arrived there was no one else around. At the top of the second pitch we saw a guy out by himself and towards the end we saw another group behind us and heard some others, but we were otherwise alone.

The pitches: 5a, 4c, 3c, 5a, 5b, 2a (traverse), 4b, 5a, 3b, 4b

Really nice climbing, mostly good rock quality, though somewhat polished in places (of course). A very nice day out.

Trailrun Jura in fall

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Climbing at Court

The (frustratingly overly pessimistic) weather forecast killed our original plans for the weekend, so we adjust with some bouldering on Saturday and climbing on Sunday.

After a leisurely start and good breakfast we set off to Moutier. From there the nice walk through the gorge to the crag at Court, which we had to ourselves. Fun new addition: someone brought up a little garden table and a couple of chairs, so there was a fancy place to sit for lunch. :-)

The climbing, this time using the grades from the Tourenportal:

• Bottom bit of Multidirecte to get up to the band: 4c (A lead, g followed in trail running shoes)
• Felix to the first stand: 5c+ 
• Voie du Milieu: 5c+ (both lead and then again toprope)
• Bottom part of Felix to get back up to the band after lunch: 5c+ (g lead, A following)
• La Normale all the way to the top: 5c+, 5b in the top part.
• Grivel

As always in Court: fun climbing which requires much more brain than brawn. Good stuff!

Climbing the Bire

The Bire, which rises prominently above Kandersteg, has been on our climbing list for a long time. We haven't done it yet since we were always concerned about crowds. Sunday we decided to go ahead and give it a try, possible crowds be damned!

Early train from Basel to Bern and then on to Kandersteg. Walk to the gondola and then gondola up to Oeschinensee. Follow the sign for Bire climbing (uh oh...) and blue markings (eventually turning to red markings) up, up through the woods and then into the open. We're alone until we get towards the top, when another couple catches up to us and passes. The start of the route is marked with a red point, so G (of course) can't really see it... good thing A is there!

Gear on and a quick snack while waiting for the other couple to start, no one else coming behind us, so maybe it won't be crowded? We start climbing at around 10.

Really nice climbing on good rock, fantastic views (the Bluemlisalp group and other mountains have a fresh dusting of snow, which just improves things). The couple in front of us is faster than us and no one is under us, so no stress. A couple of walking bits. At the Tschäri we do another quick food break and enjoy the awesome views before switching to the approach shoes and doing the short hike to the last pitches to the peak. Here we see a third team, a pitch or two in front of the pair in front of us... still no stress at all. The last section is considerably more alpine and route finding is trickier but that's just a different kind of fun. (Note in case we do this one again: traverse to the left on the second pitch and then head up where the first bolt is... continuing around the corner is not good.).

We get to the peak at 15:00 (5 hours of climbing + breaks), have another short food break while packing up the gear and enjoying views, and then start the descent. The route down is really fun, one of those "wow, I can't believe a path leads through this terrain!" things that we enjoy so much and after 1.5 hours we are back down with the crowds at the gondola station, where we start our trip home.

The two topos we have disagree about the number and difficulty of the pitches, here's both:

According to Plaisir West: 4b, 5c, 4c, 5a, 4c, 5c, 4b, 5a, 5b, 5a, 4b, 4c, 4c

According to the SAC: 3c, 5b, 4b, 4c, 4b, 4c, 5b, 5b, 5a, 4a, 4b, 4c

This was a great day: really good climbing, a super fun descent, and great weather.

Climbing at the Mattstock

 Greg's feeling mostly better after his fun with COVID19 and the forecast is good, so we opt to go do some climbing on good rock (to contrast with Greenland). It's been a while since we were at the Mattstock, and that's super fun climbing, so we opt for that.

Train, train, bus to Amden, chair lift up, and then the approach to the wall. Of course we get the last part of the approach wrong and end up doing more scrambling than is strictly necessary. On with the gear and climbing we go. 

We climbed:

• Suedostwandplatte: 5a, 5a, 4a, 5a, 5a
• The first three pitches of Gimmi; 5a, 5b, 4c

Great climbing, the combination of Wasserrillen and slabby sections is just pure fun. The abseiling was efficient and clean; definitely a good day.

Gear note: this was the first climbing trip with our new Mammut 50m double ropes; the old ones were >10 years old, so we replaced them.

Greenland day 6: Trip up to pt's 680 & 802

Earlier start today: we're breakfasted and underway by 8:20. The plan is to move up into some interesting terrain we saw on Day 5, get up to a ridge, and see what we can see. Back across the streams/rivers and towards the glacier, but we head to the left-hand side this time. Up through a mix of glacier, talus, and snow, up, up until we get to a glacial "lake" that we had seen before. Now left over a col, around another lake, some climbing, some traversing, some snow, out onto another glacier, and then up and across. At some point we put on the crampons and continue up some gradually steeper snow. Ropes on towards the top and then we are at the col and onto rock. 

A quick break and some looking around before making the (obvious) call to do the easier peak to the left. Up, up, up on easy talus terrain until we reach the peak (pt680 on one of the maps). Break, views, cairn building, views, discussion of what to do next, no agreement (groups are "fun"). Eventually J decides for us and we head back towards the peak two over from the one from Day 5 (pt802). 

Down, down the way we came, back across the glacier, back onto the snow but now up, up. It's sunny and hot! hot! up! hot! up, up until we hit the col. More nice views, this time in different directions. We turn right and follow the ridge to the peak with a bit of snow and some easy scrambling. Great views from the peak. More eating, photos, and cairn building. Then it's time to go down, down. First repeating the way up, then diverting off onto a big snow field which we're able to take down a few hundred meters. A bit of unpleasantness through a couloir and then we rejoin the path from the morning.

Back to camp, food, food, and sleep.

Another very, very nice day with great weather. Yay! We are in Greenland!

Greenland day 5: traverse of pt835

The day starts like the preceding one: overcast with some low clouds. We are underway at around 9:00.

First we cross the streams/rivers, then up to the glacier. a bit of crampon instruction and practice, then up on to the glacier for real. Up and across until we hit snow, then roping in (one team) and following the snow across to the slope we hope leads to a nice col. Up, up the steep snow, across some ice, more snow, up up. At some point switch to a 3-team and a 2-team, move up. Across the bergschrund, more up to the top of the slope. Here sheltering in the randkluft and doing some planning.

J goes forward, leading up an ugly bit of wet slab and loose mess and then belays the rest of us up. From there it's up, up a fairly loose slope until we high the col. Awesome views from here (we aren't in the clouds since they have lifted). Some food and a discussion about what to do next. We opt for the shorter traverse of pt835 and head up to the peak to our right.

This is a mix of loose mess and some nice scrambling that takes us to the top and some more stunning views. The sun is almost out and it is fantastic! Yay! We're in Greenland! Some cairn building and view appreciation and then we start down the other side.

This is a bit messy and steep, but J finds a great route and gets us down to the col. Another short break, on with the crampons and down the snow on the other side. When it gets a bit steeper (moving from one snow field to the next) we rope in, but otherwise continue down to the glacier. Fast and easy down, down the great snow. Across the glacier and back to camp for soup, quesadillas, and a normal freeze dried meal. Then bed.

What a great day! The weather is really starting to improve. Tomorrow is going to be good!

And here's the track:

Greenland day 4: the first tour (up to pt642)

Not much rain overnight; mainly just light drizzle, but still low clouds in the morning. After breakfast we head back up the valley to the lake from yesterday, moving into a cloud up top there. Left and easily up the valley wall to get to the ridge, build a cairn to be able o fin d the turn off on the way back, and then left along and up the ridge. We are, unfortunately, still in a cloud, so we we don't have the great views, but it's atmospheric and still a nice walk/light scramble up, up until we heat the peak (pt 642 as marked on the 1:100,000 map). Here we are between two cloud layers, so we can actually see a bit!

Build a cairn on the peak, have a snack, continue to the end of the ridge (and maybe another peak... the cairn-builders build another one there, just in case). More nice views, speculating a bit about whether or not we were the first here (no decision), and then turn around to head back the camp the way we came.

Really nice day with no real rain. And the forecast is steadily improving.

Yay! We're in Greenland!

Greenland Day 3: some hiking in the rain

It rains most of the night, but the sleeping is still good. We get a late start - the argument is "what's the point in starting early?" but G is awake early anyway. Still, J lets him out of the fence and he can go sit and drink coffee in the group tent and not make a nuisance out of himself. ;-)

Good breakfast, a bit of a rest, some sitting around, lunch, more sitting around, and then a hike since it's not raining all that much any more. We head up the valley with the idea of checking out the glacier. The glacier is gone, but the lake which is left is absolutely stunning. Yay! We're in Greenland! We do plenty of recon along the way and then walk back ot camp. Read some, dinner, sitting around, then off to bed.

It rained off and on all day, never really hard, and it's not cold or windy, but it isn't really conducive to serious mountaineering. Let's see what happens tomorrow. We have ideas for cool stuff to do ranging from alpin hikinge to actual mountaineering. The weather and conditions just have to play along!

Greenland day 2: setting up the first base camp

The weather forecast isn't great, so we make a comparatively early start. Good breakfast, then load up the boat and head to the first base camp spot (off Tasiilaartik fjord). We unload the boat and then wander around for a bit looking for the best site that's not too far away. This doesn't take all that long. After moving everything to the site, we pitch all the tents and get moved in, pitch the group tent, eat, and start setting up the perimeter.

After camp is mostly setup we go for a hike around the corner along the fjord to do a bit of recon and check out some cool looking slabs.  The slabs look great, but there's no obvious way to protect them, so no climbing this afternoon for us. The anticipated rain starts, so we head back to camp. More food, dinner, more rain... but things are dry(ish) in the group tent. After dinner we finish setting up the bear perimeter in the rain... that's a goat rodeo, but we eventually finish. Then: sleeeeep.

Greenland Day 1: arrival in Kulusuk

We do the normal start from the boarding house in Reykjavik (after breakfast at the same time as a bunch of loud Germans), walk to the airport, check in, meet the 3rd member of our Pirhuk group (we'd already tentatively identified him on the flight from Zurich the day before, but he introduced himself to us). Meet the 4th member of the team on the plane. Painless flight. Better weather than expected in Kulusuk (blue skies!). It's sooooo nice to be back!

After heading to the lodge and dropping our stuff, we try to go bouldering but mainly end up scrambling and walking (can't find the place we went bouldering back in 2018). Good dinner in the lodge with a group which is just back form trekking, then bed. Yay! We're in Greenland! It's soooo nice to be back!

Greenland Mountaineering Expedition: Overview

• d0 Thu, Aug 4: flight Zurich to Reykjavik
• d1 Fri, Aug 5: arrival in Kulusuk
  
• d2 Sat, Aug 6: setting up the first base camp
• d3 Sun, Aug 7: some hiking in the rain
  
• d4 Mon, Aug 8: the first tour (up to pt642)
• d5 Tue, Aug 9: traverse of pt835
• d6 Wed, Aug 10: Trip up to pt's 680 & 802
• d7 Thu, Aug 11: lazy morning, packing up camp, boat transfer to 2nd camp, between Kaarale glacier and "huge unnamed" glacier", set up camp
• d8 Fri, Aug 12: recce of area and objectives, play on boulders
• d9 Sat: long day across "huge unnamed" glacier and up to pt 1500 (as marked on 1:250,000 map)
• d10 Sun, Aug 13: rest morning, stroll up to viewpoint above camp & Kaarale glacier
• d11 Mon, Aug 14: climb up to peak behind camp
• d12 Tue, Aug 15: rest & boulder day
• d13 Wed, Aug 16: to and on to the Kaarale glacier
• d14 Thu, Aug 17: boat trip back to Kulusuk, rest at Nanoq Lodge
• d15 Fri, Aug 18: flight Kulusuk to Reykjavik
• d16 Sat, Aug 19: rest and eat in Reykjavik
• d17 Sun, Aug 20: flight Reykjavik to Zurich

• stories: day 5, day 9
• all tracks
• J's trip report

on shepherd's paths in Ticino

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Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Schrattenflue climbing and hiking

 We wanted something mentally easy this weekend, so we opted for climbing at a crag instead of something more ambitious. After some poking around in the tourenportal to try and find crags likely to get a bit less sun, we decided on the Schrattenflue.

Saturday morning: bus to Hirsegg, then up, up, up towards Heftbode. At first along road, then under trees (yay, shade!), always up, up. Out of the trees and into fun limestone landscape, up, up until we get to the Heftihutte (what a great location... too bad there's no water in the summer) and the ridge. Lunch break enjoying the views and then we wander around a bit to orient ourselves and figure out where what is.

We decide to start with an easy (5a) route on the Kleine Nadel. This ends up being way trickier than anticipated and neither of us wants to go past the second bolt (sandbagged rating? typo? just not used to climbing on limestone? who knows). It's no problem since all the routes on the spire go to the same stand. Plan B is the 4b Suedriss; except we can't find that one at all. The crack is clearly visible, but there are no bolts visible. Plan C is the 4a (obvious bolts up high, but nothing towards the ground). Plan D is the 3a on the backside (this is now getting absurd). Here there's at least one bolt, but the rest of the route has none. At this point doing free solo doesn't sound great. A engages problem-solving mode and uses the first bolt on the back to get to the 4a. This way she makes it to the top. Next plan is for her to clean out the quickdraws on this side (not easy due to rope drag and the rope getting pinched). Then back to the top and G will lower her over the "5a" to recover the quickdraws. BUT... the rope keeps getting stuck and this doesn't work. We eventually get her to the ground and manage to get the rope down (that was a near thing). A cleans out the 5a by heading to the second bolt and leaving a clip behind. 

That was frustrating... back to the hut for a food break and to decide what to do next. Neither of us is particularly motivated at this point, but G has noticed a route which looks pretty easy and nice. So after a bit of a rest we check that out, eventually figure out which route it is and confirm that it's a 5a. G starts this time and makes it easily through the fun beginning before getting to a steeper bit somewhat lacking in holds. At this point motivation fails, but there's a maillon in the last bolt, so turning back is easy. A does the beginning and reaches the same conclusion about the steep top, and that's that for the day's climbing.

We pack the gear up and head down, down, down, back to the bus stop and then 15 minutes along the road to our hotel. Check in, shower, do some really nice wellness, have a nap, good dinner, and then sleep.

Sunday we are underway by 8:30. Up, up, up we go again. Nice hiking... at some point we make a navigational error which takes us on a trail too far to the left; easily corrected with a traverse along cow trails back to the main path and then up, up through cool limestone. Past a few routes in a hole (you need to abseil to them), then up a bit more until we get to the Schiff routes. There's another group of 5 climbing here, but there are plenty of routes.

After yesterday we start with a couple easy 4b's just to get our brains working. Next is a 5b which goes without problems. Food break in the cool and shady hole (sitting next to an enormous block of surviving snow)... would be fun to climb one of the routes in here, but only one looks like it could be safely belayed and the beginning of that is tricky to get to because of the snow. Anyway... back out of the hole, another 5b (also pretty easy), then G does a 4b on the edge (in trail running shoes) to get a good picture. It's now getting too hot to climb, so we pack up and figure out a nice hike out.

We opt to head to Kemmeriboden Bad via the Hengst. This gives us a nice bit staying up high in the karst landscape with great views before heading down, down, down. Notable things on the way down: past the Clushuette, which has a potable water tap (yay!) and then another spring + trough under the trees most of the way down to cool down before hitting the bus stop. We had time, so the plan was to have drinks at the hotel before getting on the bus. Unfortunately the hotel was badly flooded in early July, so it's closed. :-(

Nice climbing (on the second day at least), and some great hiking.

[Tracks to come]

Becs de Bosson Bivvy

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Bergpunkt Eiskurs

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