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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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First of all, a giant THANK YOU to Bonnie Kamps, who sent me another disc. Subsequent pix are either hers or Jim Wilson's. Here's a shot that Chris already posted, of the inimitable Ms. Kamps on a via ferrata:
The first stop was Bolzano. We wandered around the city for a little while and stumbled across a farmer's market:
Then we, of course, found the climbing store. They had the biggest pack I had ever seen in my life. Here's my impression of the kind of person it would take to carry a pack like that:
They also had these cool wood carvings of Italian mountaineers. I don't remember who they were carvings of, but they were life-sized and really cool:
Our first climb was a 4-pitch route up one of the Cinque Torri. The Cinque Torri (5 Towers):
Me and Chris marveling to be in such a fabulous place:
It only had 2 5.6 moves, so we drug my Mom along (she's the redhead):
Coaching Mom through the first 5.6 move:
Who is that swole dude? Check out the swole chicks coming up to meet him at the belay!
Mom rappelling off. This was the rappel after the first rappel, which was quite exciting. It was the first time Mom had to actually rappel over an edge. She forgot to move her feet and ended up upside-down. I thought it was kinda funny, but she was a bit concerned about the whole situation....anyway, she fared much better on this one:
We stayed to do a couple of sport routes, while Mom and Bonnie headed back down to the car. Unfortunately, the ski lift had already closed:
Some cool pictures of peaks & mountains. They're all from somewhere in the general Cortina vicinity, though I don't remember the specifics of each one anymore:
The backyard of the lovely Hotel Menardi, where we stayed in Cortina:
The front of the Hotel Menardi -- Wherefore art thou, Romeo?
Another shot of the cool Punta Fiames arete:
While Mom was freaking out 'cause we were late, we were just happy to be headed down at last:
Ah, note that this picture was taken in nighttime mode.....still on the descent down from Punta Fiames, down the biggest scree slope I've ever hiked down in my life. I had at least 5 categories of scree identified by the bottom, categorized from best to worst...
We took a break and went sport climbing for a day after that. Here are shots of the local vegetation on the way to the crag. And at the crag, the names of the climbs and grades were painted at the base of each route.
Lush forests are cool, I haven't seen many:
Here is the local fauna at another sport crag, near the Sella group:
More fauna:
More from the Tre Cime area. The wonderful Rifugio Lavaredo:
Whoa, they like, have Jesus at the top of the mountains in Italy (top of Il Patroni):
A better picture of the memorials on the way to Lavaredo:
An even better one:
And an even better better one:
Another shot of bouldering on the perfect boulder:
These were some shenanigans after I left. You just can't keep a good climber down!
The End. Note the Classic Dolomites Climbs book in hand.
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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And where is Paul from Muir Beach (who posted that he was actually in the Dolomites while this thread was created!) and his pix? Don't be shy now! Heck, I just posted a picture of me imitating a goat!
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Old Gnar
Trad climber
The Holler
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Wonderful photographs. Thank you. I just spent time in the Dolomites in September and hope that Brian will post some pictures. Fancy running into an old rec.climber from Salt Lake City at the Cinque Torres of all places...the flask of red at the hut was especially enjoyable.
Inez
PS--Me driving in Italy, sharing the road with 80,000 motorcyles returning from a meet in Austria was especially exciting!
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Curlie-beautiful photos on what looks like a great trip.
Tarbuster- Upthread, you had shots of the Spigolo Giallo (Yellow Edge) at the Tre Cima. Here’s a shot by Graham (the artist formerly known as Gramicci). Mike teamed up with this guy to climb the same route back in ‘76. Mike, help me out here, but as I recall it, you and I had left Chamonix separately and agreed to meet up at the Tre Cima later. You got to the Tre Cima a couple days before me and you did the Yellow Edge with this guy. I recall you saying it was somewhere in the 5.8 range? How did you find it, Roy?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2006 - 08:46pm PT
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Nice additions Curlie!
(I'll follow my promise to wup up some Needles stuff).
Ricky:
I really like that picture; that guy epitomizes glee & footwork in the mountains!
The Yelow Edge is a wonderful moderate tour.
Aside from the crux, which we translated and confirmed to be 5.9ish, the route consists of a long sustained 5.7/8 start in a cleft, followed by lots of 5.6 & 5.7.
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Thanks, the real kudos go to Jim & Bonnie who took those great pix.
Those are some nice Yellow Edge pix, Tar & Rick. That's definitely on my list for next time. We only stayed at Lavaredo for one night, I could easily spend a week there. At least!
Yeah, for some reason I was initially hesitant about doing a climbing trip in a foreign country. I couldn't say exactly why, maybe felt it would be too much of a hassle traveling with gear, or something lame like that. But now I'm totally sold, it was one of the best experiences. Can't wait to go more places!
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Tarbuster and Curlie, And all.
Thanks for this great thread. I hope it keeps rolling. Unfortunately, I have never been so someone else will have to do it.
Zander
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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If you're still not sure if you want to go:
A panorama from the deck of the Refugio di Lavaredo. Behind me, a 20 minute walk away is the Tre Cima gruppo.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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May 28, 2009 - 11:44pm PT
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Bump for the ultimate European thread ever on ST-Town
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Michael D
Big Wall climber
Napoli, Italy
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May 29, 2009 - 01:20am PT
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...and a cool place to kickback after Tre Cime routes, Misurina.
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DanaB
climber
Philadelphia
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May 29, 2009 - 11:50am PT
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The Dolomites is a fantastic place. What I remember most is that we climbed in the Tre Cime, the Marmolada, and a few other areas, we did at least 100 pitches and we placed, at most, 3 to 4 pieces of gear. The rock is so compact and the few available slots were filled with old pitons.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Jul 23, 2009 - 03:00pm PT
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Bumping this fine thread for all the great pix. One of the places on this earth that I could never get enough of in one lifetime.
The Tofana Group
Punta Fiames
Taken on 9/11/01 and being oblivious to what was happening elsewhere
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jul 23, 2009 - 05:28pm PT
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Classic stuff.
To think I moved out west when I had a chance to
go to the Dolis. . . .
nah, I dun good here too!
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Nohea
Trad climber
Sunny Aiea,Hi
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Aug 26, 2009 - 06:34am PT
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Is this not one of the top 10 threads at the campfire? Thanks to all you have contributed.
Aloha,
wil
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Ray-J
Social climber
east L.A. vato...
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Aug 26, 2009 - 09:35pm PT
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1). Start a fund raiser to get Tarbuster owunna them little red sports cars.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Aug 27, 2009 - 05:38am PT
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Wow - superb! Missed it the first AND the second time round, as I was on El Cap. Made it this time, though.
Aloha, eh?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 17, 2019 - 08:22am PT
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Sad to see the change on Tarbuster's thread...
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Apr 17, 2019 - 09:09am PT
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But we can post photos that we own?
Up at Kronplatz Bell, is the Messner Museum. For lovers of old climbing gear, I don't believe it comes much older.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 17, 2019 - 10:33am PT
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Marlow wrote:
Sad to see the change on Tarbuster's thread...
This is but a taste of the wholesale butchery the "moderators" of this dying forum have enacted.
ANY thread produced prior to 2009/10 when these guys instituted their own photo hosting functionality, will look just like this one.
No photos whatsoever unless you slavishly click through the links.
I produced over 100 richly infused climbing threads with primarily my own photographs hosted from photobucket (6000+ photos), and most all of them will be just as deserted as this one.
There are MANY fine contributors to this forum whose work now looks much the same.
John, Fritz:
Thanks for your additions, but are you sure you want to dignify this obtuse and ridiculous move by the owners of this website by contributing anything at this point?
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 17, 2019 - 11:08am PT
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Tar: My condolences. I was attempting to share what happened to your wonderful thread.
Lo siento.
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