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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
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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