Sunday, January 3, 2010

From the land of Chocolate

Cool little house on the death road past chironico

Me getting whipped on 'la Pinoche 7b+' cresciano Pat with the post van at chironico




So we've been bunkered down here in our little swiss house for nearly a week now and it's been awesome. After ariving and a death drive by myself through Italy in our little post man van I managed to find our house and make it back to pick up Pat from the airport the next day.




Pat warming up on a high ball Cresciano





The first few days were spent at Cresciano with great conditions except for a bit of snow. We spent lots of time learning to climb these beautiful boulders and getting shut down on projects. Pat managed an impressive flash of la Pionche 7b+ on the amazing la Pelle boulder. We took a quick trip further up to Chironico which is quite snowy at the moment but still some classic's to be had. I managed to haul my ass up a beautiful problem call 'Globe trotter' 7a which I really had to work hard for but was worth all the effort. We got snowed off after that before taking a wrong turn and ending up on an ice death road but we've made it back and are waiting for better weather to come.

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