One of the reasons we left Magic Wood for Italy was the forecast was full of rain everyday. We returned from our week ‘vacation’ in Italy to drive up into the Swiss mountains with visibility at 5 meters and rain coming down all around us. The forest of magic wood was well saturated when we arrived. We setup camp and hoped for better weather soon. We had a lucky second day with a few boulders dry enough to climb on.
Dave
After that it never stopped raining; it sometimes slowed to a barely perceptible mist but there was always precipitation. We filled our days with books, chatter, cooking, and dreams of dry rock. Thankfully there is one boulder problem that stays dry even during rainfall, The Never Ending Story Part 2 7C+, which is an awesome problem down on the river with perfect polished rock. Les and I both managed to climb it quickly.
Les on The Never Ending Story Part 2
After that I climbed the only other dry problem, Massive Attack 8A, which is just a few hard moves that doesn’t really go anywhere (no top out). That was the end of the climbing so we returned to sitting under the tarp. Our dreams of dry weather didn’t come true and after six days of sitting in the rain, the forecast called for 10 more days of rain so we cut our losses and headed back to Ticino where the forecast was dry and even cooler than in April. Sorry for the lack of photos of Magic but it’s been wet and the psych has been low.
yep, very sorry for that s****ty weather – but at least the weather was killer for the last few days in ticino 😉 have you been back in the 101area? and for the weekend: magic wood looks PRIME!!!! se ya up there, martin