Dolomite and Alpine Classics in Mid to Late June
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Heading to Europe next week to do some routes in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Main objectives are Comici on Cima Grande and Cassin on Piz Badile. Would love to meet some other climbers while I'm over there! Anyone gonna be in the area?? |
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Will you have a car? |
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Did you check webcams? |
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mrcn wrote:There's a lot of snow in DolomitesI have not checked webcams for this year, but here's some photos from second half of June in another year: roberts-1.com/t/b08/itj/i/s… Anyway, there's no shortage of S-facing high-mountain rock routes in those regions. |
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I should've quote metcalfd as he was the one I asked about webcams:) |
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I will have a partner, car, rope, rack, etc. The guide that we have is Classic Dolomite Climbs and a few others rented from the AAC. We're probably going to hit up some local crags around Cortina di Ampezzo June 17th and 18th and would love to meet some other cool climbers. Regarding current webcams, do you have any good links to cams in the Dolomites/Bregaglia region? |
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I'll be there! Haha. Use the search field brohaus! I've contacted a few other people too. |
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Type 3 is my favorite!! |
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bergfex.com/sommer/val-breg…
this site can also show most of the webcams in dolomites and alps (at least for Austria, Switzerland and Italy) Just type name of city/area in search field and use webcam menu on the left cortina cortina.dolomiti.org/index.… webcams in huts rifuginrete.com/webcam |
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mrcn wrote:most of the webcams in dolomites and alps (at least for Austria, Switzerland and Italy) Just type name of city/area in search fieldYes but especially with webcams for ski resorts, be careful to check the date of the photo. Many Euro (and American) ski resorts stop broadcasting their webcam at the end of ski season -- and just leave the last photo. So sometimes the photo you see on their website now in June is still showing the snow from April. (not a problem for the specific ones linked by mcrp) Ken |
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If it helps at all, we have been climbing on the Sella Group this week. South faces are dry. Sella towers, Piz Ciavazes and south side of Piz Pordoi are good to go. Still lots of run off on north and northwest faces. |
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Tnanks -- that's what I've been hoping for -- nice to know it's true. |
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You're welcome! We wil be in the area the next two weeks, so will know more soon. |