Saturday, November 3, 2012

BARILOCHE & PIEDRA PARADA

This past month, has been pretty busy. Our friend, Martina, from Austria, came to climb in south america and we had no other choice that traveling around some of the best climbing spots.
We started the trip in Chile, with some climbing days at Las Chilcas.

























After some days in this sunny and hot  climbing spot, we decided to move down south, closer to home and with better climbing temperatures. We arrived in San Martin, were super pleasent temps and sunny skies welcomed us.  After showing her around our small but cool local spots, we continued down south to Bariloche. We spent almost a week in Bariloche, climbing at different spots and alternating between single pitch sport climbs and multipitch mix climbs.
After Bariloche, we headed to Piedra Parada, place where the next Petzl Rock trip will be held in november. We spent about 7 days here, testing some of the new routes bolted for the rock trip and also did an ascent of an amazing route on the Piedra Parada, called Chocolate Profundo, which is 260 mts long, 9 pitches and it goes like this: 7c / 8a / 7a+ / 7c+ / 6c / 6b / 7b+ / 6a / III.
Really cool climbing so hard pitches, so high off the ground.
That´s been our busy and fun month. Now we are back in San Martin, climbing and bolting new routes. We will post some info soon.