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Quite an intense climbing route at Klausenpass (CH), with Andrea.
How to get there
From the Klausenpass hotel just go up towards the wall (follow a path at the beginning, then just go straight up). 30 min or so.
General description
- Bolted, generally well-protected.
- Belay stations equipped with a ring for rappelling
- Wall facing south. However when we go there it was still partly in the shade, therefore the first pitch was for us cold and difficult!
- Rock is generally good, maybe a bit worse in the last pitches
- Very nice route. First pitch hard, then totally doable.
- Descent rappelling along the wall. Easy and quick.
Pitch-by-pitch
- Hard! 6c+ or so. The rock was cold, we struggled. With a proper "warm up" it would have been fine and fun - I guess. Andrea leads.
- 6b, not really difficult. It was just a bit complicated to "read" the rock and find good holds. Still Andrea.
- 6b, a bit more interesting. My turn. I end up at a belay station a few meters on the left of the "right" one and when Andrea reaches me and notices the mistake he pronounces the sentence of the day "Ci siamo giocati la via" ("We fucked up the entire route" - simply because we had to spend 5 minutes extra traversing to the "right" belay station)
- 6b, nice pitch. Andrea leads.
- 6a+, my turn. Not difficult, with a nice step at the end.
- 6b+, Andrea. First part very easy, then one step a bit harder a few meters under the belay station.
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