This morning I had some troubles to get going again, after a few days the energy level can get a little bit lower so I had to drag myself to the start of the route.

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Luckily Jasper didn’t suffer from laziness, so he lead the first length giving me a nice warm-up seconding the pitch.

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The route was largely cleaned of the excessive snow, which was nice for a chance. The route followed a series of small frozen pillars, which were nice to climb. Since I’m more a boulderer than climber my arms can get pumped after not too many meters of climbing. So long vertical pillars are always an extra commitment, knowing that I will suffer badly.

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After a while, it started snowing again. We were trying to speed up a little bit, because we wanted to top out, but also knew we had to rappel the entire route, and if there is too much fresh snow the avalanche danger increases.

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Under the supervision of a mountain goat we rappelled quickly down under deteriorating conditions and made it safe to the ground.

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