chitra0828
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2025
Hi All: I am a new member to this awesome forum and am looking for some advice on the above stated hike (we would hike up to the Refugio and then stay the night before hiking down next day).
For context, we've hiked a fair bit thru the Stubai alps, dolomites etc. We are not technical climbers just solid trampers:
(a) In the hike up to Refugio Jou de los Cabrones there is a section where we use a rope to get up the slope. Do we have to depend on the rope to find our way up or is it more like we are climbing up but using the rope for protection and to provide addl support? I am asking because neither my husband nor I could actually propel ourselves up a rope with a backpack and just depending on the rope to levitate ourselves up. But if it is like a low grade Via Ferrata we could climb up rocks while holding onto a rope that is doable. Can you advise?
(b) Once you get the rope section, the other side looked pretty steep. Can we find footings in the crevices and pretty much find our way down? It would be sad to overstate our skill level and get to that point and then be unable to go further.
(c) In checking out the hiking path at various points it almost seems like a social path. We will have Gaia GPS, but where would we find a paper map, and what else did you use to ensure you were on the right track? Or am I mis-stating and it's fairly well sign-posted?
(d) We are planning to do this hike (if we can) in late September 2023. Any ideas when the snow fall comes thru in these areas?
(e) Finally, are we better off Hiking up from Refugio Terenosa to Los Urrieles and then onto Jou de los Cabrones thus allowing us the ability to rappel DOWN that wall? Or its really no different?
Thanks for all your advice, and would much appreciate your insight on these points. Best Regards, Chitra
For context, we've hiked a fair bit thru the Stubai alps, dolomites etc. We are not technical climbers just solid trampers:
(a) In the hike up to Refugio Jou de los Cabrones there is a section where we use a rope to get up the slope. Do we have to depend on the rope to find our way up or is it more like we are climbing up but using the rope for protection and to provide addl support? I am asking because neither my husband nor I could actually propel ourselves up a rope with a backpack and just depending on the rope to levitate ourselves up. But if it is like a low grade Via Ferrata we could climb up rocks while holding onto a rope that is doable. Can you advise?
(b) Once you get the rope section, the other side looked pretty steep. Can we find footings in the crevices and pretty much find our way down? It would be sad to overstate our skill level and get to that point and then be unable to go further.
(c) In checking out the hiking path at various points it almost seems like a social path. We will have Gaia GPS, but where would we find a paper map, and what else did you use to ensure you were on the right track? Or am I mis-stating and it's fairly well sign-posted?
(d) We are planning to do this hike (if we can) in late September 2023. Any ideas when the snow fall comes thru in these areas?
(e) Finally, are we better off Hiking up from Refugio Terenosa to Los Urrieles and then onto Jou de los Cabrones thus allowing us the ability to rappel DOWN that wall? Or its really no different?
Thanks for all your advice, and would much appreciate your insight on these points. Best Regards, Chitra
