Europe with Asmir and Miriam

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After exploring these tunnels for a bit, we continued around in a clockwise direction, following the narrow path at the base of the tower to the start of our ascent ferrata (which is called the Via Ferrata delle Scalette). A big red arrow leads up to the commemorative plaque and the start of the wires, which led straight up. Asmir must have thought they looked impressive, because I heard him murmer 'why am I here again?'

Although the climbing was steep, it was usually in some sort of shallow gully with excellent handholds. A little higher up came the first of a series of many ladders. Although airy in spots, the ladders were quite secure and well-protected, with the only real difficulty being that some ladders were a bit overhanging, making them a bit strenuous. Super good views were to be had all around, obviously.

V. Ferrata delle Scalette

Concentration

Rounding a Corner

Overhanging Ladder

Big Air on Toblino

Down to Miriam

Ladders Everywhere

A bit o' stemming

Deep Notch

Asmir's favourite spot was a big steep-sided chimney, where he enjoyed the wide stemming moves that were required. After that, it was a few more airy ladders and a bit of steep exposed ladderless climbing, and then the top of the tower was reached.

Miriam's Smiling Traverse

Cow on a wire

Final exposed climb

The torre is a popular route, being short, scenic, and very close to a major Rifugio. We were lucky in the sense that we had done our climb with not a lot of other parties about (the route is often crowded). As we arrived at the summit, another party had just left, and we had the little tower-top to ourselves. Miriam posed for a celebratory shot and celebratory summit smoke.

View from the top

Miriam on Torre Toblino

A Celebratory Puff

We could see that more groups were approaching the summit, so we didn't stay long, and started our descent. The descent route does not have any ladders, being solely on rock, but is less steep. Rock and handholds continued to be solid and plentiful. Asmir was the topmost climber on the way down in our group, and was climbing a little slower. Complicating matters was an impatient Austrian kid (who was climbing with his mother), who continually followed too closely, often nearly stepping on Asmir's hands and in general interfering with Asmir's downclimbing. When we got to the bottom of the climbing section, Asmir was none too happy about him, nor about his mother's inability to control her son.

Descending Torre Toblino

Toblino Descent

At the bottom of the ferrata were more interesting wartime ruins, which we briefly explored. After that it was easy trail leading back down to the rifugio in a matter of minutes.

Wartime ruins

Extensive tunnelling

Asmir and the Torre

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