Kleiner Trichter: 13.5 hours and various offerings to the mountain
Nominally 7+, psychologically rather more — and we never found the rappel line.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
450 metres of the Hoher Göll west face, Pause tour no. 59. The guidebook gives 6-/A0; free, the crux is 7+. We took the A0 variant.
On paper that doesn’t make it especially hard. Psychologically it is. There are essentially no bolts, not many pitons either, and you climb accordingly carefully. The rock is good and the climbing steep and varied — that isn’t the problem. The problem is that you’re placing most of your own protection and don’t always find much to place it in.
The highlight was the twelfth pitch, with an exposed double-rope traverse. Not something you do every day.
The descent turned out to be the real route. We simply couldn’t find the rappel line down the Trichterpfeiler and improvised our own. Adventurous is the kind way to put it; committing is the accurate one. Various pieces of gear stayed behind.
13.5 hours all in. The climbing time alone is given as just under six. You can do the maths on the rest.