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Ski & Climb in April with Andrea in Val Bedretto.
We leave early in the morning for a "half-day tour" (these were Andrea's words). After a couple of hours in the car we take our skies and climbing stuff and we start hiking up towards the Capanna CAS Piansecco. Finally we put our skies on for some advanced "ski touring on mixed terrain" (i.e. snow and grass).
Andrea attempting to ski (up) on mixed terrain
The first pitch (6c+) is half-buried under the snow, thank God. But anyhow the second half is still challenging and not exactly an ideal warm-up.
The second pitch (6b+) is not very difficult, except for the first 3 meters, quite tough. I even try to fly the drone, however for some reasons (maybe wind? or a software problem?) it was very, very difficult to control it and especially to bring it back.. In several occasions I got afraid that the drone would fly (or fall) down to the base of the wall on his own..
The third pitch is an amazing 7a+ along a beautiful, overhanging crack with a delicate traverse at the end. Difficult, exhausting, hard. We struggle. At the end of this pitch, we decide to skip the next two (one is too easy, the last one too difficult) and we rappel down.
Not satisfied, we climb the first amazing pitch (6c+) of the route "Danielli-Pohl", a tiny, long crack that requires delicate, elegant steps.
We then put back on our skies and rapidly descend towards the car: somehow we even manage to enjoy the ride! Finally we drive back and reach Zürich at around 20, after another great half-day tour.
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