Andrej83k - Recent messages

Already the third time besides the winter Matkov kot I visited Cold Mountain 2203m. It gets varied right from the kot and escalates to the summit. After some meters of scrambling soon snow with 60-degree slope, base from start still ok, 10cm southern snow, below hard, but later on details under rocks less snow, need to find safest passages and watch edge cracks. Below Latvica there was slightly more southern snow and in the morning sinking 30cm, on return already to knees. Real troubles start above Latvica in the climbing part, sometimes annoying scratching with crampons on rock, elsewhere awkward wet snow where ice axes grip poorly, danger also that everything slides to the valley. Below summit marked path not passable, winter route under the wall also not best due to southern snow. But goes with those big ice axes. On summit real winter, cold and wind, later nice day formed in the valley. 🙂