Climbing at Simplon pass

This weekend we fled to the Simplon pass to try and escape the heat.

Saturday we went climbing at the Stalde crag, which is <30 minutes from the Simplonblick bus stop.

On the hike in we noticed a large group ahead of us... ah well... climbing is a social thing. ;-) This turned out to be mostly a group of teens and a few accompanying adults, was never disruptive despite the numbers.

Routes climbed:

• Tocha first pitch, 3c, normal shoes
• Taferna, 4c, normal shoes
• Werni first pitch, 4b, normal shoes
• Lisi and the second pitch of Werni, both 5a, climbing shoes
• Lochi, 5a+, climbing shoes
• Hospiz, 5a+, climbing shoes

Thanks to a good breeze, things never got too hot. It was great to be on good rock again; a nice day of climbing!

For Sunday's hike, see here