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Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Italian Dolomites, Via ferrata, Trinci 4b - 27th June 2013
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Italian Dolomites, Via Feratta, Piz da Lech 3b, - 26th June 2013.
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Italian Dolomites, Via Feratta, Averau 2a - 25th June 2013.
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At last good weather, and a pleasant walk in to do Averau, a grade 2a via feratta. |
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With no lift access, the pleasant walk became a sweaty one as we reached the snowline. |
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Classic alpine artwork on one of the mountain restaurants. |
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For a grade 2, Averau has an awkward start, but soon becomes straightforward as you move along. Not far past this spot is a split in the route where you can take the stemples up through a chockstone, or carry on the normal route. We eventually returned, down the stemple route. |
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The one, slightly exposed crossing of a loose gully top where for some reason there was no cable. |
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Ruth and Ian at the top of the last section of via ferrata. |
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More snow and wet, sometimes slippy rock to negotiate before the summit. |
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John, descending the stemple section we missed out on the way up. |
Monday, 24 June 2013
Italian Dolomites, A walk around Colfosco - 24th June 2013.
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Overnight snow meant there was little we could do via ferrata wise as the fresh snow would probably be loose, wet and unconsolidated high up. We resigned ourselves to a gentle walk around the local ski area of Colfosco. |
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Fresh snow on the higher tops. |
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Looking down at the campsite in Colfosco. |
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Same snow, different view-ish! |
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Colfosco looks like it would be a nice ski area, but maybe not that big? |
Monday, 31 August 2009
Chamonix Week, Monday 31st August 2009 - Gran Paradiso
We spent a couple of hours in the morning at the Guides Crag at Les Gaillands in Chamonix, going over prussicking techniques in case of a fall into a crevasse, followed by a couple of quick climbs.
Mike checking out routes at Les Gaillands.
Me, Stevie and Mike on the crags doing some easy climbing in the sun.
Just before lunch, we set off through the Mont Blanc Tunnel for Italy and Gran Paradiso. We set off in the heat for the Vittorio Emmanuel Hut at 2732 m, set in the middle of the italian National Park of the Gran Paradiso (Parco del Gran Paradiso) . The new building was built in 1961, offering lodging and food for about 190 people.
En route to the hut.
And a well earned beer before dinner and an early night.
Not a bad view whilst we dried our socks on the fence and ate Mikes free peanuts!
A dark-o-clock start, gave us clear skies with hardly any wind and the occaisional glimpse of a shooting star. We set off along the moraines and scrambly path in the dark by the light of head torches and climbed up through the clouds.
As we climbed higher, the sun started to rise, Mont Blanc in the distance came into view.
"One day son, all this could be yours!"
Stopping for a quick breather as we slogged up to the final zig-zags.
It was quite a busy route, with a couple of crevasses to negtiate and as the track got steeper there was a ladder to cross the bergschrund just below the rocky summit ridge.
The summit ridge was quite busy with people jostling for position and squeezing past each other to get to the true summit at 4,061m and have their photo taken with Madonna; sorry the Madonna!
The summit itself with the Madonna and a lot of down on the right!
Looking back across to where we came from, with a few teams still en route.
There was also a smaller Madonna further along the ridge, but nobody seemed to want to go there? (Mont Blanc in the distance).
Eventually we had to descend after a short abseil/lower off the ridge to regain the track, and our crampons! On the way down we got a closer look at some of the crevasses that cross the glacier.
It was a hot descent and a welcome relief to remove some layers and stop for a snack and take a final look up our route of ascent earlier that morning. It was then another hour or so down to the hut and then after a quick lunch, we were off again to descend all the way back to the valley and the return drive to France.
Mike checking out routes at Les Gaillands.
Me, Stevie and Mike on the crags doing some easy climbing in the sun.
Just before lunch, we set off through the Mont Blanc Tunnel for Italy and Gran Paradiso. We set off in the heat for the Vittorio Emmanuel Hut at 2732 m, set in the middle of the italian National Park of the Gran Paradiso (Parco del Gran Paradiso) . The new building was built in 1961, offering lodging and food for about 190 people.
En route to the hut.
At last the hut comes into view!
And a well earned beer before dinner and an early night.
Not a bad view whilst we dried our socks on the fence and ate Mikes free peanuts!
A dark-o-clock start, gave us clear skies with hardly any wind and the occaisional glimpse of a shooting star. We set off along the moraines and scrambly path in the dark by the light of head torches and climbed up through the clouds.
As we climbed higher, the sun started to rise, Mont Blanc in the distance came into view.
"One day son, all this could be yours!"
Stopping for a quick breather as we slogged up to the final zig-zags.
It was quite a busy route, with a couple of crevasses to negtiate and as the track got steeper there was a ladder to cross the bergschrund just below the rocky summit ridge.
The summit ridge was quite busy with people jostling for position and squeezing past each other to get to the true summit at 4,061m and have their photo taken with Madonna; sorry the Madonna!
The summit itself with the Madonna and a lot of down on the right!
Looking back across to where we came from, with a few teams still en route.
There was also a smaller Madonna further along the ridge, but nobody seemed to want to go there? (Mont Blanc in the distance).
Eventually we had to descend after a short abseil/lower off the ridge to regain the track, and our crampons! On the way down we got a closer look at some of the crevasses that cross the glacier.
It was a hot descent and a welcome relief to remove some layers and stop for a snack and take a final look up our route of ascent earlier that morning. It was then another hour or so down to the hut and then after a quick lunch, we were off again to descend all the way back to the valley and the return drive to France.
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