7/17/14 - Le Lepido Pteres

Climbed Le Lepido Pteres with Wally on his last day here.  Walter and Bucky ran to the top of the Plan de l’Aguille again and I met them there with the gear.  This time they knocked 7 min off and ran it in 1:11, even while being attacked by a vicious German Shepherd.  The climb started as mostly traversing with a really nasty bit full of loose rocks and dirt.  Eventually we made it to the start of the vertical climb and it was all really slabby with no hand holds, but it was not super steep.  Bucky led one pitch and then I led the other 4 which was good for me because it involved placing a lot of pro.  No pitches were harder than a 5c.  Down the back side we had two rappels and then some steep down hiking until we got to one last rappel that we were not expecting based on the description in the guide book.  We hustled down the trail back to the tram station and managed to catch the last tram of the day.  Walter still ran down the trail to the bottom, but I was very happy to save two hours of steep down hiking after a long day.