strange title for a trip, but that's what I came to head over and over again as I reviewed the week that Harvey and I had spent in the Ecrins.
If it was too late for winter mountaineering, had too much snow, It was too hot and we had not come Strengths: TOO LATE.
But also it was too early to enjoy all of rock climbing has Oisans: Too much snow, too cold, too little rock shooting after a cold winter: TOO SOON
the end it sounds like an excuse and come home with a bittersweet taste in the mouth, because you've spent a great week, surrounded by mountains and in the company of best friends, but have not uploaded what you proposed, the sensations in the mountains which are not expected and more, did you feel small, helpless and even cowardly.
Well, sometimes you win, and others are tied, because what is lost we have lost ... for now.
Here are some of the sites we went through:
If it was too late for winter mountaineering, had too much snow, It was too hot and we had not come Strengths: TOO LATE.
But also it was too early to enjoy all of rock climbing has Oisans: Too much snow, too cold, too little rock shooting after a cold winter: TOO SOON
the end it sounds like an excuse and come home with a bittersweet taste in the mouth, because you've spent a great week, surrounded by mountains and in the company of best friends, but have not uploaded what you proposed, the sensations in the mountains which are not expected and more, did you feel small, helpless and even cowardly.
Well, sometimes you win, and others are tied, because what is lost we have lost ... for now.
Here are some of the sites we went through:
Looking Northwest Corridor Pic Sans Nom:
Pelvoux: Route rapping
The carrtera to Ailefroide is cut down Pelvous works, gives a bit as well as 100m above was completely covered with snow ... From there it separated us from 1400m of elevation to our bivouac.
Prè Mme Carle with something Snow
Opening track
On the way we surprised some purges, it is clear that the conditions are not the best, but we're still encouraged.
The mountain is purged
rackets
Without prejudice and without medical prescription ski ... we finally reached a bivouac dream, alone, surrounded by mountains:
Cara South Barre des Ecrins in the clouds
Javi and Barre
closer to the base runner only to turn around with the feeling of not trying hard enough.
Glacier Noir towards the Pic Sans Nom
Pic Sans Nom and Coup de Sabre in the clouds
In Search of Tête d'Aval: Pilier Rouge Hebdo:
Seeing that the weather was not very good and that the isotherm is put through the roof, we decided to change gears and rock climbing, lower in the valley aesthetics we Tête d'Aval, just above the village of Vignaux. South facing, good protection, just the thing for our tired bodies.
The whole Tête d'Aval
course
We chose the easier route of the cliff: Pilier Rouge Hebdo already V + / the 6th obliged which seems perfect for rock ignaugurar season in style.
Pilier Rouge Hebdo
The track is unique as it runs for almost the entire route through the cracks more or less athlete. The kit is excellent estamapadas Fixe bolts and plates with the logo of the French Federation of Climbing (FFME).
Largo 3rd: Voyage V +
5 º Length: Huge Dihedral V +
its own opening, JM Cambon, writes in the guide (Oisans Nouveau Oisans Sauvage), have opened without a single expansion, but over time tastes change and it decided retrofitted in batches, being now "Escalade Plaisir" (that so often maligned term).
11 º Length: Plate 6b +
We had to currar the 2000m because it was cold and I lost a bit plaisir ... but that we were!
Por fin nos subíamos algo!
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