Picked Andy up in Milan without any hastle and made our way to the Malga Ciapela campsite, where we stayed last year, beneath the Marmolada. We had approximately 8 days of available climbing, so we did our usual of cherry picking the classic routes. And what classics they were! We seemed to spend most of our time in corners. Not so bad as were excellent at bridging now! We also had a couple of days at the smaller crags and did some reat sport routes. OUr day of via ferraa was a long and hard one, totally different from last years of the same grade.
The weather caught up with us by the last couple of days and after driving through some horrendous storms (never driven in rain as heavy) we decided to use the bad weather as a travelling day and head back to Chamonix for some cragging. A scorching day at Servoz saw us climbed out and ready to head back home.
