Alpspitz-Plaisir: hard cold start, flowing after that
Train and cable car in, perfect weather. The first two pitches were the hardest of the day.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
The Alpspitze is quick to reach by train and cable car, and that’s an underrated luxury — no hunting for parking, no car left somewhere for the evening.
Perfect weather, so the mountain was busy. In the route itself we only had one party above us, which is what actually matters.
The first two pitches are a hard cold start. The second goes through water grooves, and climbing water grooves with cold fingers straight off the ground is not a good combination.
After that it flowed, a lot of it linked together, and the rest of the route just ran.