{"id":893,"date":"2012-09-26T21:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2012-12-08T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T21:13:22","slug":"piz-badile-cassin-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/2012\/09\/piz-badile-cassin-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Piz Badile: Cassin Route"},"content":{"rendered":"

The north-east face of Piz Badile is situated in Bondasca valley on the border of Italy and Switzerland. It\u2019s the easiest of the Rebuffat\u2019s six classic north faces. Piz Badile is not too high – it\u2019s only 3308 meters – but the north east wall has more than 800 meters climbing on it. The history of the face is fairly fierce but these days the Cassin sees quite a lot traffic.<\/p>\n

Piz Badile: Via Cassin (6a, 800m) – September 7th, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

Climbing a wall this long for your first route with a new partner is always a little exciting. I had done plenty of climbing during the season but this was the season opening route for Reko. In addition, we were not sure if the route would be dry since the temperatures had been fairly low and there had been heavy rain during the week. Nevertheless we decided to give it a go. The weather forecast was very good.<\/p>\n

We weren\u2019t the only party who figured the route could be wet. The ladies at the Sasc F\u00fcra hut commented our plan with a warm \u201cah, Cassin\u2026 ummm\u2026 could be so-so\u201d. <\/em>Later on the notch before entering the wall the Swiss guides said \u201cThe crazy Englishmen. They don\u2019t care if it\u2019s wet.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 On the notch there were three other parties and they all turned back down because “it looked wet”<\/em>. I was happy about this though since I knew we would be alone on the wall. There was going to be no queuing and we could take exactly the pace we wanted. If I have the time I like climbing slower and enjoying the atmosphere more. The route being slightly wet is much better than having traffic jams.<\/p>\n

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