🇦🇹 Horrible experience on a beautiful multi-pitch (Seenot near Salzbourg) скачать в хорошем качестве

🇦🇹 Horrible experience on a beautiful multi-pitch (Seenot near Salzbourg)

This was a scary experience for us! Things could have gone way worse! Marion was close to having a heat stroke! That would have been really bad! Seenot is a 7 pitch multi-pitch, near Salzburg. Around 200m in length, it starts 1 meter above the water! It's a beautiful line. The max grade is 6a+, but every pitch felt harder than the guide book suggested grades. When we visited the Wolfgangsee lake near Salzburg, we couldn't notice this amazing cliff that towers 200 meters high, plunging straight into the water. After consulting the guidebook, we discovered some approachable multi-pitches. August was way too hot for a south faced multi-pitch. We patiently waited for a cooler day, but it never happened. As our trip neared its end, I convince Marion that an early morning start could make the climb manageable. She accepted the challenge! We set our alarms earlier than usual, aiming to hit the trailhead by 7 am. The best and quickest way to get to the climb would be by boat, a mere 10 minutes. However, we opted for a walk, discovering the trail was not really obvious for first-timers. Fifteen minutes in, we found ourselves bush-bashing off the main path. We reached the abseil point at 8:45 am. There's a nice metal plate marking its location. We started the abseils at 9 am, a possibly late start, but we pressed on. Once down, there was no turning back. The abseils are great! Beautiful place! At the bottom, ropes snagged on trees or rocks. delaying us even more! We started climbing around 10:30am! Too late already! Under the scorching sun, we knew we had to ascend quickly; there was no other way out. Locals on stand-up paddles warned us about the challenging last two pitches, with artificial holds that spun and a higher difficulty than the grade suggested—nothing but encouraging news! We combined 1st and 2nd pitches for efficiency. We also combined 6th and 7th! Some plastic holds started to pop up, but they were not really needed. We managed to avoid them for the majority of the climb. The suggested grades are probably based on using the gym holds, because every pitch felt much harder than what the guide said. We started the third pitch at 11:15 am. It was really hot! Somewhere around 30ºC we think! It was unbearable! And we still had 4 pitches to go! About 10 meters from the top of pitch 5, there was this cool feature, with some possible jamming techniques to climb with using the plastic holds. We run out of water before starting the last two pitches. The worst scenario for such a climb. The sixth pitch is all the way on plastic holds, which were very welcome, considering to urge to get out of the sun. The holds were somewhat worn and spinning, making it hard to trust them, but climbing it without them would have been way harder, if possible. Marion really struggled with the final bit. The walls were hot to the touch. We finally escaped the wall around 2:45 pm. With no water left, we still had the trail back down to the car carrying the equipment. We were exhausted.