Lara: a genuinely bad route
Polished, loose, a via ferrata directly overhead and rockfall to match. Plus a thunderstorm coming in.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
A genuinely bad route. You don’t like writing that, but here it’s accurate.
The rock is polished and loose at the same time, which is a rare and particularly unpleasant combination. The route sits inside the sport crag, and a via ferrata runs above it — with the corresponding rockfall from people who have no idea anyone is below them.
On top of that a thunderstorm was building.
Franzi led the first pitch, then me. We got up it, but pleasant it was not. Sometimes you drive to Arco and pick exactly the route you should have left alone.