Climbing Abroad

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Seconding the lead on the last pitch of Via Man-llia in Arco, Trento, Italy.  October 2003.  The view is simply magnificent Halfway through Via Man-llia.  I climbed it with Peter, a german friend and we took turns to lead the pitches Colodri as seen from Zoo Arco campsite in Trento.  Awesome.  Possible of a climbing project in the future??  
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Climbing in Ars Vivendi, a climbing gym in Dortmund, Germany  

 

Photos from my holiday in Germany 6 Dec 2004 to 9 Jan 2005, climbing in Ith on 11 and 12 Dec:

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Nameplate of the crag, together with emergency number.  The routes following the nameplates are to be found on that crag. Rechte Riss (Grade 3)The first route we made warming up to the cold weather.  Easy, but slippery.  But fun to climb
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Linke Riss (Grade 3+).   Nice and easy up slippery rock.  The cold temperatures made it very hard to climb.  The rock was amazingly cold to touch and every hold seemed like agony.   It was very difficult to grip the holds and hold on tight to them due to limited finger movement.
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Linke Riss (Grade 3+) Crag name: Tw�gerstein S�d Verschneidung (Grade 5-). Now we were moving onto real good stuff.  A small roof in the middle of the wall made this route a little tricky.  But some little gymnastics and strange body positions and movements and you're out and safe!
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S�d Verschneidung (Grade 5-) Crag name: Kamel The impressive crag Kamel
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We climbed Nordwest Kantel (Grade 5+), on the other side of the crag. Crag name: Pfaffenstein
On this crag we climbed Alter Talweg (Grade 4-)
On second day we started with this route called Alte S�dwand (Grade 4+) in Teufersrichter crag Mittelweg (Grade 4).  In my opinion the most beautiful route we climbed on those 2 days
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Mittelweg (Grade 4).   Tricky and very nice you must go from the left wall to the right wall and get out of the small roof. The crags are in a huge forest.   A magnificent view can be seen from the climbing places, especially from the top of Kamel crag.

 

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