There's been so little snow in Ticino this year that we can do an early trip down to Locarno. This time we actually work during the week and enjoy the area during the evenings and on two weekends.
The days, climbing grades all from the SAC book:
- Saturday the 19th: Placche di Tegna. Fun with slab... these were all pretty easy
- Pino (5a)
- Ostro (5a)
- Mekka (5a)
- Chiara (5a)
- Bionda (5b)
- Recta (5a)
- Muckel (5b)
- Magnolia (5a)
- Sunday the 20th: Rovine del Castelliere
- Zuchit go home (5a)
- Chili (5a)
- Tutti I Colori (theoretically 5a+, but we couldn't figure out the top and switch to RΓΌbezahl at the top)
- Sonneblueme (5a, A only)
- Noggeli (4c)
- Friday the 25th: Rovine del Castelliere
- Framezzo (5a+, g only)
- Wim (5a, A only, adventure while lowering)
- Aebiana (5b)
- Sunday the 27th: Rovine del Castelliere
- Pisello (5a)
- Scala (5a+)
- Wim (5a, 5a, 5a, 4a, 4b+, 4b+)
On Saturday the 26th we did a hike from Riazzino to Vogorno via the Forcola. We had planned to do the Cima di Sassello on the way, but there was plenty of snow up on on the ridge and on the North faces, and we weren't at all prepared for that. So we just did a nice walk around the valley and then down to the lake (which was, amazingly, empty!).
