I never have been that early in Cogne for climbing ice... Although, we were not exactly sure that there would be ice at all. Due to working visit to Switzerland and a lot of snow on the northern side of the Alps Bernd and I decided to give it a try. At least we could do some dry tooling in the valley.
After a nice drytooling day between Cogne and Lillaz we spotted the Loie waterfall and expected it to be climable, and indeed, next morning after 1 hour ascent to the foot of the fall we were sure that we would hit ice this trip - fantastic.
Next day we walked to Patri, because that waterfall usually builts up very well. And indeed, it was climbable. The fourth day we went to Valmiana, although, only rated WI3, the first pitch was still thin and not chopped at all, very nice climbing and last part even in the sun!!!
Loie:
Patri
Valmiana
Drytooling
