Schöne Tage: rappel in, then climb
A pumpy grade 8 to start, hard friction pitches in the middle, and an exposed traverse where I hung on everything.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
You rappel in to the route, which makes the day start differently: there’s no easing into it, you’re hanging at the base and the base is a grade 8.
The first pitch is very pumpy. Then come the middle 7 pitches, and those are friction — genuinely hard, considerably more demanding than the number suggests. Friction is always the most thankless kind of difficulty, because you do nothing wrong and slide off anyway.
The 8- traverse is very exposed. I hung on everything there.
Honestly not a day where much worked. But the route is good, and that stands regardless of how I performed on it.