Woke to the sight of sun on the peaks around us – in fact Sylvia’s comment was “there is something strange out there”. We quickly had breakfast as there is no chance of sleeping in – the church bells go ballistic at 7am with a grand total of 94 chimes.
We went over to the hire shop to hire some KISAs (the y-lanyards) with big mouth biners that have a great quick release system. There was some concern when he would only hire them for one day – he must have known what the weather was going to do.
We decided to do the Piz da Cir V graded 2A. We parked at the chairlift at Passo Gardena, surrounded by snow, and walked steeply up the hill to the top of the chairlift (that stopped operating 2 days earlier :( ).
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From there it was a bit of a scramble to what they call a belvedere – a rock platform – at the start of the via ferrata. This is where we donned our gear (including a helmet Hannah). Should also point out that the weather was quite variable – check the difference between the stitched photo and the ready to go photo taken 10 minutes later.
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The climb went up a short ladder at the start before taking you up some steep rock. The rock has a surprising number of foot and hand holds – just when it looks like you have run out you will always find more. It is easier to let the pictures show what is involved (and the views).
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| And had to include a picture of the strangely decorated sheep. Why did they give them a brown scarf and spotted earmuffs? |  |
A delightful day and its gotta be said that via ferrata-ing is very cool!
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