After a year of climbing in warm areas it’s time to have some fun again in the ice!
This time we went to Cogne in Italy and started the holiday with some easy climbing to get used to it again. The conditions weren’t the greatest with not much ice and to much snow, so we picked a waterfall that was safe to climb. First, we had to get to the waterfall in fresh snow, which is already a good exercise to warm up those muscles.
As you can see the weather was not the best, but at least the sun wasn’t melting the ice, which was nice.
I started by climbing an easy pitch with some terraces in it before we got to the main pillar. Normally terraces are nice to relax a bit, this time it meant some extra snow plowing. But I made it through and found a nice belay-spot.
Although it might be freezing outside, and the waterfall is frozen, somehow the material always gets wet. If you’re not climbing but belaying it is really enjoyable to have wet stuff in your hands, in freezing temps, and standing still.
The pillar was a nice vertical climb with good ice. Although short, this was the real ice-climbing again!
After we rappelled down, the sun got out making it a great end of the first day of the season.