Dolomites - The Rest
Well, it's been left to the master ! M of course !
The evening of Sunday, 27th we attended Colletts speech on 'via Ferratas'. Nothing special except listening to two old codgers from England mumbling away that this trip was the first time they've seen camming devices & that these whipper snappers haven't heard of hemp ropes before. We all laughed as we'll be like this one day !
Monday we were all pumped up to do our first via Ferrata (Piz Da Cir V, 2a) with kids in tow. Over to Passo Gardena above Corvara. We all managed to make it to the base of where the cable started, then we stopped - big mistake. This allowed the kids to watch others & get cold. They all started to whinge & get scared. So MP&RA&MD reversed back with the kids whilst J continued on with the rest of the Colletts group. MP&RA helped MD take the kids back down to the walking track then hoofed it back to the starting point again. Jumped on the wire & romped up to the top, going over the top of anyone in the way - Italian style !
Getting geared up for the Ferrata.
Left - route.
Right - descent.
Tuesday morning the whole tribe took the Arabba cable car (8 EUR each) to the top to do a walk called 'Viel Del Pan'. Saw lots animals (marmots, goats etc) along the way but the highlight was a eagle called a 'Lammergeier (maybe)'.
Lammergeier ?
Wednesday M&J&R decided to go climbing. We jumped in the car, 40 minutes of extreme winding roads into the snow zone ! Oh my god, freezing - zero degrees when we got out of the car with about another minus 5 wind chill factor. No way in hell were we climbing today. So we walked up to the areas we thought we might climb another day. After a few hours we spotted Little Micheluzzi (see next post) & decided this was for us. We wandered up to the route and found poeple climbing - was out of wind and getting good sun.
R & J watching people on the climb.
Thursday RA & MD kindly looked after N so M&J could go and do another via Ferrata called
Tridentina (grade 3, serious, B)
Ascent 750m, including 400m of cable.
Descent 750m, took almost 2 hours to come back down.
The start was 10 minutes walk from the car park & the descent gully finished at the same car park which really makes this a popular route. M&J really enjoyed the outing & kept good speed all the way, only to be over taken by a lone fit older Italian gentleman.
Overall, it took us 6 hours - 3.5 for the climb, 0.5 at Rifugio, 2 to get down.
M on Tridentina
Friday MP & RA went to climb Little Micaheluzzi - see next post. J was a little tired & didn't want to go.
Saturday we all headed to Lagazuoi WW I tunnels. Up the big scary cable car, then down through the tunnels back to the original car park. About 3 hours with the kids.
Machine gun position.
On Sunday, we packed up, jumped in the car & drove straight to Marco Polo airport in about 2. 5 hours. Home in Prague for dinner.
The evening of Sunday, 27th we attended Colletts speech on 'via Ferratas'. Nothing special except listening to two old codgers from England mumbling away that this trip was the first time they've seen camming devices & that these whipper snappers haven't heard of hemp ropes before. We all laughed as we'll be like this one day !
Monday we were all pumped up to do our first via Ferrata (Piz Da Cir V, 2a) with kids in tow. Over to Passo Gardena above Corvara. We all managed to make it to the base of where the cable started, then we stopped - big mistake. This allowed the kids to watch others & get cold. They all started to whinge & get scared. So MP&RA&MD reversed back with the kids whilst J continued on with the rest of the Colletts group. MP&RA helped MD take the kids back down to the walking track then hoofed it back to the starting point again. Jumped on the wire & romped up to the top, going over the top of anyone in the way - Italian style !
Getting geared up for the Ferrata.
Left - route.
Right - descent.
Tuesday morning the whole tribe took the Arabba cable car (8 EUR each) to the top to do a walk called 'Viel Del Pan'. Saw lots animals (marmots, goats etc) along the way but the highlight was a eagle called a 'Lammergeier (maybe)'.
Lammergeier ?
Wednesday M&J&R decided to go climbing. We jumped in the car, 40 minutes of extreme winding roads into the snow zone ! Oh my god, freezing - zero degrees when we got out of the car with about another minus 5 wind chill factor. No way in hell were we climbing today. So we walked up to the areas we thought we might climb another day. After a few hours we spotted Little Micheluzzi (see next post) & decided this was for us. We wandered up to the route and found poeple climbing - was out of wind and getting good sun.
R & J watching people on the climb.Thursday RA & MD kindly looked after N so M&J could go and do another via Ferrata called
Tridentina (grade 3, serious, B)
Ascent 750m, including 400m of cable.
Descent 750m, took almost 2 hours to come back down.
The start was 10 minutes walk from the car park & the descent gully finished at the same car park which really makes this a popular route. M&J really enjoyed the outing & kept good speed all the way, only to be over taken by a lone fit older Italian gentleman.
Overall, it took us 6 hours - 3.5 for the climb, 0.5 at Rifugio, 2 to get down.
M on Tridentina
Friday MP & RA went to climb Little Micaheluzzi - see next post. J was a little tired & didn't want to go.
Saturday we all headed to Lagazuoi WW I tunnels. Up the big scary cable car, then down through the tunnels back to the original car park. About 3 hours with the kids.
Machine gun position.
On Sunday, we packed up, jumped in the car & drove straight to Marco Polo airport in about 2. 5 hours. Home in Prague for dinner.
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