Sunday, January 18, 2009

Snowed Out! Via Ferrata it is!

Sebastion climbing the Ladders

It is snowing here in La Grave!  We are all excited, and I am looking forward to seeing this place with a bit more snow.  The telepherique was closed today again.  This time for the wind and snow, so a bit easier to deal with.  So instead I went with a couple of Belgian guys to go do a via ferrata.  It was just down the road a bit and was called Pont D'sarine.  For those of you who don't know what a via ferrata is, it is a route up the rock using metal ladders and a cable to climb.  The ladders are like pieces of rebar in the rock and you wear a harness with two clip-in points in order to secure to the cable.  It is something we don't have in the states.  This was just a short one, about 400 meters or so, but super fun.  I guess they have huge routes throughout the alps, and were originally put in to use for black-market transportation.

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