Sonnenzeit: eleven hours on the Sonnenspitz
A long route, a freezing start, wide bolt spacing — and a descent that drags.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Eleven hours all in. The approach went pleasingly quickly, which on a route this length saves half the day.
The first pitches were freezing. You climb worse automatically — the fingers don’t do what they’re told and you grip everything harder than necessary. Then the sun came round and it got considerably more pleasant.
It’s bolted, but with very wide spacing. That’s an honest arrangement: the bolts are where they’re needed, and in between you simply climb.
The descent is very long and exposed at the start. After eleven hours that’s the part you remember the next day.