Fußstein north arête: away at 3 a.m. on mountain bikes
A good route with a glacier. Passed two parties on the fourth pitch, then moved together to the summit.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Away around three, mountain bikes as far as they’d go, then a long walk in.
There were two parties ahead of us at the start. We passed them on the fourth pitch and then moved together all the way to the summit. That’s the real advantage of being early and climbing quickly: you don’t spend the day waiting for someone.
The descent is long and tedious. On the other hand we were the only ones on it, which made it considerably less fraught — nothing coming down from above, no rush.
Good route, long day.