Dressing up for climbing

As the season of climbing outdoors is getting a faster and more active pace, climbers in Silelis are thoroughly exploring the wardrobes for clothes suitable for climbing. One has to consider both comfort and elegance, which is not easy. While browsing the (THE) internet and investigating what climbing clothes should be like, I found some very attractive item to buy:

the Prana Sugar mini skirt!
The skirt could be useful in many ways:
1) comfortable to wear even in very hot weather
2) suitable also for hiking
3) would attract more spectators in Kindergarten, so we could collect some money for the beer
4) the boys would have to fulfill their part of the bet, made last year!

Sadness without limits in Silelis

This is how sad we are that the climbing hall in Bolzano is now open only in the evenings. Badly enough, climbing hall in Merano works only on the days when some of our climbers have karate training! We are very very sad.

What we have learned today

If the wall is overhanging, and the carabiner is at the top, for the second climber there are lots of risks if he attaches himself to the same end of the rope as the leader. Instead, the second climber should attach to himself to the end, where he was belaying. See the scheme above, where the green guy is the second to climb the route. Take into consideration the fact that he has to take the rope out of quickdraws while climbing.

Sarentino opening hours

As the weather is still not too hot, the rock is cold in the shadow. We have not yet reached the level to care about the fact that the friction is stronger when the fingers are completely cold, therefore we long for the sun just like lizards and snakes do. So sun is at work there from about 11:30 to 15:00.

To call each thing by its right name

I was thinking about the climbing wall near Bolzano. We call it "the wall near Bolzano". Maybe it has a name? Or if it hasn't maybe we could scratch our heads a little and think of one? One step further would be the route names. Does anybody know them? I guess there have been some names written, but time, rain and wind has deleted them by now. Please help us to call them by their right name!

Pecularities of the sun

That b---- (Vlad you know which word it is) is very cunning. Instead of showing up on the climbing wall in Sarentino at ten, just like in October, she decides to show up at 12. How lazy! And the rock so cold! First the cold bites, then it bites your fingers away, and you can't feel them anymore. Very wicked!

What's Bugging You?

So we of course we went to check out the wall near Bolzano. The most interesting thing was to find out if we are still able to climb the routes we used to climb in autumn. And it appears we still can! However it ain't easy, especially the long wide move on the most difficult track.
But something is different there indeed. No, not those many (up to 11 so far) people who gather to watch us climbing. It is bugs! Hairy, 3-4 cm long black bees that live in the crack of the rightmost track. They live there and when we climb they look at us! When I put the fingers in the crack I feel like I am invading someone's home, as they are just an inch away from the fingers. The most scary thing is that they have made some yellow slime inside, which looks so repellent, that one has to cling to the rock not to fall away.
From now on, when I think about climbing there, I always remember the bugs!