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Rod's Euro 2009 - Trip Report ~ with updates! 26-Aug-2009 At 5:20:12 PM rod

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On the slabbing day I wore a comfort pair of shoes and took the shoes off at every belay station but the feet were still as hot as Hades...I dunked them in a glacier fed stream on the way back to the car. Cramming the feet into really tight shoes was painful the day after, got to the point of not being able to think by the time I got the the chains on the last one and only did 3 routes. It was really cool though to go from granite slabbing in an Alpine setting to a 5 minute walk in to find fingery pockets and something ridiculously steep the next day (for a fat man like myself that is).

Only a couple of weeks left so I'm aiming to make the most of it - I'm off to the Chamonix region for a couple of days then coming back here to get back on these steep routes we enjoyed the other night...the rock is very like Finale, as is the grading.