Cogne - early season ice

Before christmas we had our season opening in Cogne. Conditions were ok on some ice falls and it seems that this season may become very good since a lot of falls start to grow like I had'nt seen for a while - happy!!

day 1: Patri droites and gauche. Droite was steep and not always easy to place protection.

day 2: Candelabro del Coyote and first pitch of Tutto Relativo. First pitch of Coyote cool cauliflower ice, second pitch was steep and interesting to climb... the pillar of tutto relativo looks good from the valley but it is still thin and wet!

day 3: Thule, nice climbing, second pitch wet, in the afternoon we were climbed at the mixed sector between Lillaz and Cogne.

day 4: it was warm during the night and we decided to spend climbing in the mixed sector, cool climbing spot.


Patri approach

pitch 1 Patri




Patri droite et gauche

Patri de gauche

Patri droite climbing..

 

first pitch of Coyote

 

first pitch of Coyote

 second pitch of Coyote

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 first pitch of Thoule

second pitch of Thoule

 mixed arena