Ascents in La Draye

Nice slab.

Sehr schöne Tour mit Aussicht auf den Campingplatz und andere Sektoren. 😎🫠😉

Nice route with a river crossing.

We had a very nice day.

Route is prone to alpine traffic jams b/c traverses are stressful for inexperienced climbers and the last pitch is one of the hardest.

Descent: Rappelling the first pitch: If you have 2x50m ropes don’t take the first abseil station after 35m or do, but take the second after 45m. Then you just need to rappel 2x, otherwise you need 3x.

A bit of lay back, a bit of smearing, enjoyable route, easy end

Climbed the 5a right variant for pitch 1 and the 5c left variant instead of pitches 2 and 3. We had an additional beaky stance right under the 5c chimney to have minimize rope drag and then maximized rope drag by combining the chimney with the next pitch. The big flake variant, chimney and the second last vertical pitch make this a classic. The last pitch is very short. We should have combined it. Would give it the grades 5a, 5c, 4a (until belay 3 m under the chimney), 5b (chimney), 3a, 5c, 4c.

smeeeeaaring ! short