A completely different fucking experience in unconsolidated winter snow. Our initial plan had been climbier, but blizzard conditions meant we decided to stick to easy alpine. Was ... not super easy. Also managed to take a tumble into the bushes near the bivy spot, lol. As the poem says, "agatat in vid de-un jneapan" XD
Did the bit from Scara de Fier to Amfiteatrul Coltilor Gemeni. Small detour on what was probably a portion of Braul cu Scorusi (we saw a mouse!) .Wanted to do the median portion of Valea Podurilor, but the entrance traverse would have been too sketchy (and impossible to protect) in the current conditions. Having nothing better to do, we tried to see if you can get from the lower saddle of ACG to the upper one on the ridge rather than by descending and ascending. You can, it's 1 40m pitch of M2 with marginal pro opportunities (climbing the "fang" itself is sketchy AF due to superchossy rock and the aforementioned shit pro, but there's a ledge to be taken left after the initial chimney) and 1 rap down off a tree near the ledge (red cordelette now on it)
Not my day today. End up losing the line on the one bit I did before (Caprelor secondary - Padina lui Calinet). Find it again 1 overhang below me. Rap off a tree, rope a bloody mess. Get down, get myself off the rope, drop my reverso. Downclimb a gully, get my reverso back, climb a gully. Drop my trekking poles off my backpack. Somehow I managed to get home with all my gear, if not much left of my pride.
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Mircea Bădulescu, Ioana
