Il Cielo Sopra Bolzano: Franzi redpointed everything
Porphyry, very entertaining to climb, and protection that was almost absurdly good.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Porphyry climbs differently from anything else around here — angular, textured, with holds you only see once you’re standing in front of them. Very entertaining.
Franzi redpointed every pitch: four at 6b, three at 6a. That’s a clean effort for a single day, especially since the pitches don’t get any easier the higher you go.
The protection is almost absurdly good. You climb a route at that grade and barely have to think about gear at all — which happens rarely enough to be worth noticing.