Stegerkante: into the wrong crack
An easy start to the Dolomites trip. We went right instead of left on the second pitch — and the crux is brutally polished.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
First day of the Dolomites trip, deliberately easy.
On the second pitch we went into the right-hand crack — left would have been correct. That appears to be a popular mistake on the First Sella Tower, and it costs little beyond a few metres and some discussion.
The crux pitch is brutally polished. After a hundred years of traffic the rock at the decisive points looks buffed, and you climb accordingly carefully on holds that aren’t really holds any more.
We rappelled the route because it was quiet. Otherwise you walk off round the outside.