{"id":2805,"date":"2010-07-17T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/07\/day-10-via-ferrata-che-guevara-monte-casale\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T08:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T06:03:23","slug":"day-10-via-ferrata-che-guevara-monte-casale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/07\/day-10-via-ferrata-che-guevara-monte-casale\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10 &#8211; Via Ferrata Che Guevara (Monte Casale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was out and so were we. At the crack of 8am-ish we headed off to find the Via Ferrata Che Guevara, a monster klettersteig north-west of Lago di Cavedine. It was about 1400 vertical metres of climbing with something like 1000 vertical metres of Via Ferrata. The route started near a quarry in the town Pietramurata and proved more difficult than we expected at the beginning. We were worried it might turn into something nasty later on. As we rounded a corner Frauke spied what looked like a rope running up through sheer cliffs. Oh no, we were not sure what to do but as we approached we discovered it was a power cable. Thankfully the hardest sections were at the beginning and it wasn&#8217;t long until we were romping up the cliffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tapingupfingerslagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tapingupfingerslagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Taping up fingers (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" width=\"126\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fraukelooksupatthecliffslagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fraukelooksupatthecliffslagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Frauke looks up at the cliffs (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" width=\"126\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/climbingtheklettersteiglagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/climbingtheklettersteiglagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Climbing the klettersteig (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" width=\"126\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: Taping of fingers. The combination of steel wire and sweaty hands caused by the intense heat lead to blisters. We stopped a couple of times along the way to tape our fingers. Above middle: Frauke surveys the route-to-come. Above right: Chris and Frauke tackle the next section.<\/p>\n<p>It really was a sweat-fest and we were guzzling water at a rapid rate. We were happy once we finished the last section and reached the top. It was a little strange. We expected a rough rocky summit with perhaps an Italian flag but instead we came out of the trees onto a vast manicured lawn. At one edge there was someone doing yoga and another relaxing on a rug. Bizarre. We descended by another route and rode back to Torbole. Another good day out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/crisreachesforladderlagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/crisreachesforladderlagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Cris reaches for ladder (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/klettersteigers2lagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/klettersteigers2lagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Klettersteigers 2 (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/onthecrossatthetoplagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/onthecrossatthetoplagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"On the cross at the top (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" width=\"126\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: Cris reaches for a ladder half-way up the climb. Above middle: The gang. Above right: We made sure we climbed to the highest point on the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was out and so were we. At the crack of 8am-ish we headed off to find the Via Ferrata Che Guevara, a monster klettersteig north-west of Lago di Cavedine. It was about 1400 vertical metres of climbing with something like 1000 vertical metres of Via Ferrata. The route started near a quarry in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","category-lago-di-garda","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}