Ascensiones en Italia por mike

Crux lies once again a bit sketchy above a ledge, but when the belayer's got you tight, it should be safe. Probably hard for shorter climbers.

As usual for this grade in Cimbergo, I needed a second go. Quite confusing at the top, but I did overlook a few good footholds.

When the warmup feels harder than the day's "project"...

Was not confident to do the crux onsight - it's a bit confusing and right above a ledge.

On the first go of the day, I fell out at - I think - the fifth bolt, because I mixed up some handholds. Second go it was!

Actually fell out right at the end of the last few hard moves...

Niiiiiice route. When first checking it out it looked daunting, but quite soon it felt feasible to do. May be went a bit too far right at the beginning.

Warm-up.

Not as easy as one might expect.

Many structures. A bit confusing and lots of potential for decking on ledges.

Rather easy for this grade in Cimbergo... One kind of reachy move at the end.

Happy that I could climb OS up to the last bolt. Unfortunately, I did overlook a good hold for the left hand and gave it away there.

Had to fight for it.

Nice slabby crux.

Nice slabby crux.

Small holds, a bit steep, hard to clip, but very beautiful climb.

Nice and varied with a beautiful crack in the middle. Not super easy to read.

Chickened out clipping the crux bolt. Nice wall climbing followed by an easier and more sparsely protected slab.

Hard a.f. Gets very steep, thin and three-dimensional at once - with a spicy clip...

Cruel start on small holds, not easy to read. Had to redo it. Maybe a bit hard for the grade?

Nice route to get started in Cimbergo.

Bolts quite spaced in the upper part, but cruxes up to 4th bolt are hardest.

Nice & sustained.

Tested roll n'lock for simul-climbing.

Some sort of combo: start with "Kehraus", continue on 2nd pitch of "Vespafahrt", then finish with "Sandmännchen", which seems to only start higher up anyway. May have averted it's crux, though. Nice combo.

Make sure that the fixed draw at the crux doesn't have sharp edges before clipping it! At the moment still ok.

Hard to read crux, but resolved itself quite nicely. Upper crux not so nicely, though.

Should be named "Welcherriss". Quite polished, so not too easy

Not sure if I cheated my way around the crux?

Getting to second bolt requires you to stand up on a rather high and slippery foot-hold with mediocre hand-holds (Mono for right hand…) and then reach for even worse hand-holds. Did require a few tries and needed to be confident about the move, since it‘s very delicate and rather close to the ground…

Extension‘s crux is pretty much at the start.

Needed a long time to realize that I‘m unable to find a solution for the crux…

Gave up before reaching second bolt. Too sketchy for being that close to the ground…

Nice and steep.

Nice and steep. Had a bit of trouble clipping the second bolt.

Ausklettern.

Steepest 5b I ever climbed, I guess…

Steepest 5a I ever climbed, I guess…

Unfortunately still a bit wet.

Great route. Unable to do crux on-sight.

Getting to 2nd bolt is pretty hard. Especially in midday heat. 🥵