Information and photos of my mountaineering trips in Scotland,England and Wales: Including hillwalking,scrambling and easy rock climbing.Also via ferrata, skiing and alpine trips in Europe.
Our next outing was to the popular Brigata Tridentina, a 3B VF that climbs a wall on the north flank of the Sella Massif. This is another route with a nice short walk in of about 10/15 mins from the car park.
The first section goes up a big slab, quite often wet but there's plenty of rungs (stemples).
Then there's another twenty minute walk to the main section which starts just to the right of the waterfall you can see in the centre of the picture.
Looking back across to the road up to the Gardena Pass.
As you walk along to the next section, you get to see the bridge that you cross at the top of the VF and the steep wall to the left of the main tower.
Ben on the lower part of the nearly continous 1300m cable. This section reminded us of Curved Ridge in Glencoe.
Lorna and Ben Going round an exposed corner, before the main wall.
However, you soon leave the ridge like section and very quickly gain height onto the steeper main wall with massive drops back into the gorge.
Any thoughts of being big and clever, were soon stopped as we were folllowed by an Italian family and their kids!
As you take a rising traverse across the main wall, you come to probably the hardest part; a vertical section up chimneys and ladders, but all with good protection.
After the ladders, a quick shimmy under an overhanging block brings you out at the deep gorge we saw from the bottom.
It's then just a case of crossing the suspension bridge and posing for the camera, before a final short section of cable and a another twenty minute walk to the Pisciadu hut for lunch.
Once you've filled up on beer and pasta, you get a fantastic view of the bridge that you crossed earlier as you set off on the two hour descent back to the car park.
On the way down you also see the top of Piz da Lech high on the right.
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The first section goes up a big slab, quite often wet but there's plenty of rungs (stemples).
Then there's another twenty minute walk to the main section which starts just to the right of the waterfall you can see in the centre of the picture.
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Looking back across to the road up to the Gardena Pass.
As you walk along to the next section, you get to see the bridge that you cross at the top of the VF and the steep wall to the left of the main tower.
Ben on the lower part of the nearly continous 1300m cable. This section reminded us of Curved Ridge in Glencoe.
Lorna and Ben Going round an exposed corner, before the main wall.
However, you soon leave the ridge like section and very quickly gain height onto the steeper main wall with massive drops back into the gorge.
Any thoughts of being big and clever, were soon stopped as we were folllowed by an Italian family and their kids!
As you take a rising traverse across the main wall, you come to probably the hardest part; a vertical section up chimneys and ladders, but all with good protection.
After the ladders, a quick shimmy under an overhanging block brings you out at the deep gorge we saw from the bottom.
It's then just a case of crossing the suspension bridge and posing for the camera, before a final short section of cable and a another twenty minute walk to the Pisciadu hut for lunch.
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Once you've filled up on beer and pasta, you get a fantastic view of the bridge that you crossed earlier as you set off on the two hour descent back to the car park.
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On the way down you also see the top of Piz da Lech high on the right.
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