Haselburger Riss: the 7+ was exciting
Entirely clean near Bolzano. Dirty first pitch, and the 7+ takes poor protection.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Entirely clean, which on a 7+ means you think the whole thing through carefully.
The first pitch is dirty. That’s normal in February and passes as soon as you get higher.
The 7+ pitch was then exciting, and not because of the climbing but because of the protection. It takes gear badly — you place what you can, and that’s less than you’d like. On a pitch like that you climb far more deliberately than usual, because falling wouldn’t be a good idea.
It went fine. But I needed a moment at the top before my pulse came back down.