Climbing at Stockhorn

Good weather forecast day, so off we head to the Stockhorn. The train ride is a bit scary since we're still under the hochnebel, but that clears up once we turn into the Simmental. The views open up as we take the gondola up... nice!

Our first route is Chum u lueg, which we did nine years ago. We're faster now (though not as efficient today as we were last year... the missing practice shows), but it's still an enormously fun route, and the bit of coming out into the crowds at the top of the Stockhorn is definitely entertaining.

After a bit of food, we head down to one of the sport climbing sectors and did the first pitch of Märitfroueli 5a (A did this one in lead, which was her first lead since injuring her elbow), then the first pitch of Pistache 5c (A top rope) before going back to Märitfroueli and doing both pitches. After eating a bit more we moved up to the next sector and did ??? 5b. At this point G's motivation was lagging (some was the fact that we haven't been climbing outdoors much in quite a while, some was irritation at a loud group with a screaming kid), so we had another snack and then walked down to Chrindi and the gondola down.

Beautiful day and great rock. More! :-)

Climbing at Baerenfells

The plan was to go climbing somewhere else, but g forgot the gri-gri, causing us to miss the train we wanted, so we went to Baerenfells.

Routes (grades from Plaisir Jura, g lead all of them, A did top rope)

1. Alpha (5a+)
2. Mit Seil und Saege (5b). Crack-climbing Jura-style, including a bit of an off-width at the bottom
3. Oliver Twist (5a). We have definitely climbed this before
4. Chruetlischwur (6a). g only, top rope.
5. Bel Ami (5b). g only.

We're both still remembering how to do this outdoor climbing thing, and A still has a way to go to recover her strength, but things are coming along and it was a fun day. The sun even came out, which was wild!

Hiking Vacation Engadin

• Sun, Sep 1: ride down to Scuol in the afternoon (Andrea still recovering from a bout of Covid)
• Mon, Sep 2: Scuol to S-charl (via Chamonna Lischana and Fora da l`Aua)
• Tue, Sep 3: S-charl to Lü (via Fuorcla Sassalba and Piz Terza)
• Wed, Sep 4: Lü to Pass dal Fuorn/Ofenpass (via Piz Dora, Taunter Pizza and Juf Plaun)
• Thu, Sep 5: Pass dal Fuorn/Ofenpass to Chamanna Cluozza (via Alp Schera, Val dal Spöl and Fuorcla Murter)
• Fri, Sep 6: Chamanna Cluozza to S-chanf (via Fuorcla Val Sassa), train to Zernez
• Sat, Sep 7: Zernez to Lavin (via Lais da Macun)

Obergesteln to Andermatt (2/2)

 day 2

text to come

Fiesch to Münster (1/2)

We've got another stable and hot weekend, so it's off for a weekend of trail running.

We take the train to Fiesch, where we fill up the water bottles and see some signs that there might be some kind of race going on (though the people we see have paraglider backpacks, so it's not quite clear what that is).

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