"We've once more been down in Ticino before Easter, originally planed to stay for a week at least but unfortunately the weather wasn't nice to us (as mostly this winter...) and after four days we just couldn't stand the rain and even snowfall anymore...
Anyways we had a good start with a sunny day in Chironico, Juri and Mario and Me and lots of cool Boulders in the 101 sector.
First stop was a roof called "Tricky", a really nice and weird 8A where you have to do some crazy double toe hooking to solve the puzzle and climb out to the lip... Juri quickly found out the solution (thx!!) and so we soon all succeeded. Next we moved over to test our power endurance skills on "The Arete with the Pocket", a sustained 8A with about 20 moves, where each move isn't really hard but they add up on the redpoint and create some nice spice in your forearms! Got my first proper pump this year... but luckily made it to the top though : Mario soon followed.
After a long long rest the pump finally disappeared and I felt ready to go and try "Keinfisch Kleinfisch" again, a short Dave Graham 8B just a minute down the hill. It involves some nice compression climbing with a brutal knee bar into a kinda tricky mantle and a slab to top it out. I already checked it out on a session last trip and this time got some nice beta-tips from my mate Martin who just did it a couple of days before... so although kinda sour and skinless already, with the solution more technically than just hard pulling, I somehow managed to sneak through the problem, didn't punt on the mantle, vibrated up the sandy slab and had it in my bag, end of a nice day!
The following days it mostly just rained or was too humid to climb properly so we bailed back to Innsbruck... at least the snow was good here for some nice late season snowboarding.
Happy Easter everyone!
Emi"