Katia Monte: good classic, brutally polished
An alpine classic on the Colodri with a lot of traversing. Somewhat grassy in the middle.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
A good alpine classic with a lot of traversing. Traverses are the most interesting sections on a face like this, because you’re moving sideways across ground that looks blank from below — and because the second is more exposed on them than the leader.
It’s a bit grassy in the middle. That comes with the Colodri.
What makes the route considerably more taxing is the polish. It’s brutally worn, and at the decisive points you’re standing on buffed rock rather than rock. That costs strength and patience without the movement being any harder.