| This is the South face of Batizovsky, That's the Slovakia spelling, but really I came to Poland to give a Mazeno Ridge lecture but met my friend Kacsper so we ended up doing a nice drive from the Jura limestone crags near Krakow to Slavakia and did this climb. It took eleven and a half hours from car to car, but t we did the climb in three and a half hours well with inside the suggested guide book time. The approach walk is about three hours of steep walking and like all Alpine areas this early season the snow is hanging around this year so the snow was deep as we walked to the foot of the buttress. We were very selective in our route choice and luckily the south facing pillar was mostly free of snow although there was some seepage but only one pitch was really wet! I was lucky that Kacper gave our climb such lot of thought and his local knowledge really helpful! |
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