{"id":699,"date":"2012-04-11T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2012-08-22T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:21:06","slug":"weekend-on-the-martinswand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/2012\/04\/weekend-on-the-martinswand\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend on the Martinswand"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the end of March I had another of these short weekend trips with Teppo. This time we went for the climbing near Munich.<\/p>\n

We hoped that the conditions would have been good in Wetterstein (plan A) or R\u00e4tikon (plan B) but there was loads of snow making the approaches long and heavy. In stead, we took the plan C and went for the climbing on Martinswand near Innsbruck. Martinswand is situated in an altitude of 1000 meters and has an approach of 10 minutes. The altitude was 1000 meters less and the approach 1 hour less than the other alternatives which was rather nice.<\/p>\n

Martinswand: Botanik Grand Prix (6+\/A0, 600m)<\/span><\/p>\n

For the first day the weather forecast was so-so. The forecast said some rain was likely in the afternoon. Judging the conditions we decided on climbing something easier but with good mileage to get tuned in. An alpine start at sunrise was supposed to get us to the top before the rain.<\/p>\n

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