Orco - California with better coffee
May and early june is the time for guides to go on holiday, and for this guide it's rock climbing rather than the beach. Just back from a 2 day hit in Orco on the south side of the Gran Paradiso. It's my first time to visit this valley, fabled for its granite, and came away very impressed. It's been great to do some UK style adventure climbing, complete with nuts and cams, get a bit scared running it out from self placed pro (a rare experience in continental Europe), and then have the opportunity after climbing to eat great pasta and drink even better coffee.
The climbing in Orco is the closest I've been to Yosemite style granite, but possibly even rougher, and the jamming scars on my hands after 5 months in ski gloves are testament to that. Can't wait to get back there to do some of the longer routes.
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