Guidebooks. HaeMeS advice above is generally spot-on IMO, so although I didn’t get a chance to buy the guides he recommends I’m confident they will be good. The guys in Amplaz Sport in Canazei (excellent shop) recommended a new Italian guide to ‘modern and sport routes’ which looked good at first glance and is tri-lingual (English, German, Italian) but I can’t find a link to it.
The Köhler and Memmel guide had some less than clear or accurate information about both the classic routes we did. Ron James’ Alpine Club guides were more accurate despite looking like were designed in the 1950s.
Gear: 3 cams, 5 wires and about 16 long quickdraws and slings seemed enough gear for anything we did. Perhaps take a few more draws for the Hasse which has a lot of fixed gear. We carried snacks, water and waterproofs in one of these. 14 litres, 55g., £3.50: perfect for the job.
Quote from: slackline on June 11, 2012, 09:18:15 amI wonder if that is attributable to the authors of the guide getting it wrong, or those who translated it (or proofed the translation, its was originally published in German).