Bucky, Laura, and I drove for about 7 hours yesterday from Chamonix to the Dolomite area of North Eastern Italy. Today the plan was to go climbing up in the Cinque Torri area. Unfortunately, last night Bucky came down with a stomach bug. Bucky was feeling terrible so we spent the morning looking for a doctor. The doctor's (or doctor) in the area only work for about two hours a day in each little town we drove through. After the third attempt we finally found a doctor present at the office. Bucky got some medicine and we headed on our way. Bucky was feeling too weak and tired to join us on our hike, so Laura and I left him sleeping in the car while we took the chairlift up to the Cinque Torri. The rock formation is made up of five large towers and there are climbing routes all over the
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| Rappelling back down after a successful summit |
place on all of them. Laura and I had never climbed together before so I wanted to look for a short sport route that looked relatively easy. After wandering around a little while I found what looked like a two pitch sport route of about 5.8 difficulty. The first pitch went really well, except that the rock was freezing cold and my fingers were promptly numbed! This made the route much more difficult to climb. The second pitch was probably about 5.9 but both Laura and I had some issues. We both made it to the top successfully, however, and after walking around a little longer we decided to go check on Bucky in the car. Unfortunately, with our late start and wandering around, we missed the last lift down for the
day. Luckily this hike down was no where near the distance of a hike down from the Plan de l'Aiguille so it was actually pleasant. When we got back to the car Bucky was sleeping in the back seat and was not yet feeling any better. We still trekked on with the original plan, however, and headed for the Rifugio Dibona and the Tofana di Rozes.
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