Kate and I had a couple of days off so we headed over to the Furka pass area. I had wanted to do a route on the Graue Wand for years and the weather looked good for at least one day. We drove over on Tuesday night and dossed in the van then walked into the route early on Wednesday morning, the walk in takes you passed the Albert Heim hut into a beautiful high mountain area with a glacier on the Galenstock and loads of great looking granite peaks. It was about 2 hrs walk to the route where we could leave most of our stuff so we could enjoy 11 pitches of perfect granite to a great summit. The climbing is in cracks and grooves with some very memorable chimney's towards the top. A really well equipped abseil descent quickly put us back at our packs then it was about an hour to the hut. We had a great evening in the hut hoping to climb another route the next day. The weather didn't cooperate so we did lots of coffee drinking and a bit of cragging on the way home.
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