I have just been looking at this picture https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/sasso_delle_nove_sass_de_les_nu-21..., and the route looks very very bold, but context is all, and I cannot weigh up just how steep that slab is. If it is as steep as 3 Pebble slab, with all those holds, it is not too bad, but one would get a nasty graze. Can anyone give any idea of just how steep they are. In my more insane moments, I have pondered if guidebooks could actually give the angle of a slab, a bit like you see on roads, I know when I am cycling and I see 10%,I cry, so I suppose what I am trying to find out is if the Messner Route will make me cry.
Thank you, possibly a slight whimper, but it sounds like once I got truckin, I would be fine. I bet you were gutted, I am reckoning 3.5 hours from the parking, to the foot of the route, with a stay at the Refugio needed, either on the way in, or out. How did you walk out, I am just going to take approach shoes, which in that much snow, would not be ideal. Did you wear boots and possibly have gaiters?
We had planned to camp but nearly bankrupted ourselves staying two nights at the Lavarella hut. It was a long time ago but the photograph confirms we were in approach shoes...
It also suggests how long ago we're talking about!
Also, those slabs look like alpine limestone water runnels. On which I for one am unable to perceive much difference in difficulty between "IV+" and "VII-" . And that's not because "VII-" feels easy!
The climbing is very steady, but as someone said above it's very bold, basically not one to be anywhere near your limit on. From memory it felt fairly easy angled, like a marginally steeper Etive Slabs but with holds. The steeper stuff nearer the top has some choss (it's the Dolomites after all) but is better protected.
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