Sorgechind: Franzi's first granite

Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.

First route of the Furka weekend, deliberately easy.

Granite friction is something you have to learn again if you’ve been off it for a few months. You don’t trust your feet enough, you grip too hard, and after two pitches you realise it works exactly the other way round.

For Franzi it was her first experience of granite at all, and she led it solidly straight away. On this kind of rock that isn’t a given — there’s little to hold and you have to believe the friction.

Well protected, completely alone, best possible weather. As the start to a weekend you could do worse.