As the first multipitch trad route Katarina and I chose Via Flavia (150 m, 5 pitches, UIAA grade V+) on the Parete Est wall in the Monte Colt area. It is the only trad route on a huge wall with lots of popular bolted multipitch routes. It starts with a claustrofobic "camino con blocchi" where you walk on the ground in a cave-like chimney until you see a small hole about five meters up where you can exit the cave! The second pitch is a traverse on loose rock to a shaky belay point where you rely on a tiny tree and some loose rocks as your points of safety. The third pitch is the crux pitch and is graded as UIAA VI. Both Katarina and I thought it was very easy and could perhaps be translated to a Swedish grade 5-. The last two pitches offers easy but exposed climbing on razor sharp holds. We really enjoyed every meter of this one and after 5 hours, with lots of pauses to enjoy the views, we topped out. That night Barbara's Austrian friends threw a barbeque.
