Voie Pellissier, Chamonix, Mixte

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Diamond Dachshund
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Voie Pellissier, Chamonix, Mixte

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Tom promised to show me some mixed climbing that everyone's talking about. My fingers got really cold. It beats 10k of icy moguls though.


Starting up the bottom pitch.

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Trying to figure out these sharp toolz.
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It turns out that it's quite fun. Some nice sticky ice (M5?) in the gully, finished with some 5.9 rock crux.
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Now it's getting more real.
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Beautiful alpine granite with excellent gear.
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Did I mention it was cold? It was.
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Pulling the crux on the 5th pitch.
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Gervasutti, looking dry. Jaeger (the line to the looker's right) had tracks on it from a certain mentally-ill swede.
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Freeride alpinism.
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Hauling-ass back to the train. We made it by about 2 minutes. Missing it would have meant certain death on the treacherous trail du bois.
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ziff

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looks like a great route!

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fondling tools, eh?

maybe if you ask liz really nicely she'll show you where the powders are?

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She showed me today, but not before she out-climbed me in front of my friends.

ryanl

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Diamond Dachshund wrote:She showed me today, but not before she out-climbed me in front of my friends.
happens to me all the time Davide, friends or no friends. Like the freeride shot....

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