TRUMMELBACH IV
THE CONNECTION IS DONE 14-12-2016 !!
Holzi the organiser, Franz Baumgartner, Sven Scharer and Pascal van Duin
have done this connection section of Trummelbach between TR 3 and TR 5 "the classic".
It's not the "Las Puerta del Infierno" as our Spanish friends like to call the swiss cold technical canyons.
It's a canyon not too complicated in the conditions we found, only big problem is the risk of rock and ice falling from above, almost everywhere, but mostly under the serac of the Giesengletcher; you have above your head big and steep mountains, rock walls up to 2.400 meters high, so everything can naturally fall down thanks to the gravity force.
The canyon is deep in his best sections; it is big everywhere and the view above is always too big for small men like us; the light is little down there, even in a perfect sunshine day you feel like it's a cloudy day.
Holzi wrote that now it's one of the highest, or the highest elevation for a canyon in Europe, if you connect all the valley from TR 1 to TR 5 :
Total Altitude difference 1855 m / distance 6.4km
Holzi the organiser, Franz Baumgartner, Sven Scharer and Pascal van Duin
have done this connection section of Trummelbach between TR 3 and TR 5 "the classic".
It's not the "Las Puerta del Infierno" as our Spanish friends like to call the swiss cold technical canyons.
It's a canyon not too complicated in the conditions we found, only big problem is the risk of rock and ice falling from above, almost everywhere, but mostly under the serac of the Giesengletcher; you have above your head big and steep mountains, rock walls up to 2.400 meters high, so everything can naturally fall down thanks to the gravity force.
The canyon is deep in his best sections; it is big everywhere and the view above is always too big for small men like us; the light is little down there, even in a perfect sunshine day you feel like it's a cloudy day.
Holzi wrote that now it's one of the highest, or the highest elevation for a canyon in Europe, if you connect all the valley from TR 1 to TR 5 :
Total Altitude difference 1855 m / distance 6.4km
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| On the approach we used the exit ropes of Trummelbach 3, not much snow but ice yes ! |
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| First rappel |
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| Immediately beautiful |
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| Very icy here, there is an icefall above so all the water coming down is freezing all around |
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| A bit slippery |
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| Tricky move to avoid the bath... |
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| Partly iced and partly clean |
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| Many good sights |
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| And some swimmers too ! |
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| Top slot here ! 28 meters for the 2 highest drops of this section. |
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| Exiting the first big narrow section |
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| We reach the big snow-icefield deposit |
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| We go under a first short section |
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| One rappel to set |
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| Now another 100 meters under the ice tunnel, very nice |
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| At the exit something has collapsed |
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| After the snowfield |
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| Some walking sections under huge walls of more than 2.000 meters |
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| Slides and jumps |
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| Drilling for the next fall, again a nice canyon |
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| Holzi first |
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| Sven following |
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| Some more falls |
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| I climbed up here to disengage a stuck rope and took pictures |
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| Nice panorama here, we are small |
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| We reach another section, a real beauty |
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| Dropping in |
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| A view from the other side of the same drop |
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| Smiling in this nice toboggan |
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| Lovely fall |
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| Some short swims |
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| The wood bridge at the end of our exploration |
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| Arriving at the bridge, the end. Getting here from this side is a special feeling as usually we started here to enter the Trummelbach classic section that is now known as "5" of this long valley. |
