Ice climbing Kandersteg
I have just had a couple of days over in Kandersteg climbing with Graeme Ettle and Neil Stevenson.
We met in Martigny and went round to Evolene and tried the Cascade du Couloir unfortunatley the top pitch was a bit thin and detached looking so we ran away and drove through the kandersteg. I hadn't climbed there before and was blown away by the scale of the routes, who need Canada. We checked out conditions on Wed afternoon then climbed Rattinpissoir with the groll finish which is superb a long intro 4+ pitch then a pitch of 5 up a pilar which graeme made look far to easy. If you finish up Groll you get another 2 great pitches of climbing in. the next day we went to have alook at Lurking Fear in Adelboden the route has a big bowl above it which due to the change in wind direction was filling with snow quickly sending spindrift avalanches down the route so we ran away but will definitley be back.