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| joe_akeem | Route Climbed: Normal  Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2006 | |
| In three days from Randa with a group of six. Seven hours to the summit, five back to the hut. Fantastic weather, good conditions. Enough snow on the glacier after Festijoch so it was not icy. Glad we spent another night in the hut after summiting and didn't try to descent all the way to Randa... | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2006 7:20 am | ||
| mulidivarese | the second time Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006 | |
| So it was our second time. and finally we get it! Last time was a very taugh and unlucky experience with absolutely bad weather. This time it was wonderfull, sunny and warm. Then in a long cue all toghether we reached the top: wonderfull view by there. Great mountain | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2006 7:37 am | ||
| jck | Normal Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2006 | |
| Day 1 Randa-Domhutte- somewhere hogher-slept in a tent. Day 2 Summit day- very hot- spent much time during the descent on the moraine-crevasses! Day 3 Descended to Randa. Very nice but too hot weather. | |
| Posted Jul 23, 2006 10:47 pm | ||
| jvdm | Dom summit, windy place Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2005 | |
| Summitted in poor weather. 30 people left the hut, 8 reached the summit. It is a windy place. My head almost blew off when I peeked over the edge. Bring a GPS. www.mountainpassion.net | |
| Posted May 1, 2006 1:28 pm | ||
| garaventa | Route Climbed: Festigrat Date Climbed: 31 August 2004 | |
| Tour on Dom in 2004 with Daniel Stoffel | |
| Posted Nov 18, 2005 2:54 am | ||
| Henning Lege | Route Climbed: Festigrat up - normal down Date Climbed: 1 September 2005 | |
| Again with a friend and his brave 13 and 16 year old children :-) I chose not to rope up on the way up. Perfect conditions on the ridge, and no wind at all, even at the top. What a marvellous day! | ||
| Posted Sep 3, 2005 9:09 am | ||
| brade | Two times: Festigrat and Normal Route Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2010 | |
| 14 Jul 2010, Festigrat In icy conditions with one pick, 7h to the summit. Climbed with mooliczek, igi and matti 21 July 2005, Normal Route, Solo I slept without tent in the rocks above Dom Htt. Very strong, cold wind (or my clothes were to thin :)) start 4am, summit about 8am, Dom htt.11am | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2005 1:33 pm | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: June 10th 2005 | |
| Our group was going to climb the Festigrat of the Dom. People we met at the hut told us that the route is in such icy condition that it would not make sense doing it with only one pick. Tuomas although had wisely taken both two of them but that did not help the rest of us. So we took the normal route up the mountain. I have never been climbing in the Alps in such windy conditions. Tryied to make a direct variations on the wall to reach the top of the seracs from their left side (view from below) but a huge crevasse made us turn back a bit and make ascent nearer to the Lensjoch. Made it to the top. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2005 4:41 am | ||
| mulidivarese | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 11th July 2004 | |
| Snowy and foggy all the day and the past two nights. We reached the plateu at about 4250m in less than 4:30: we were in quite good condition. No path detectable, no sign of any passage, no view: completly lost into the fog. We quit. We will come back next year | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2005 3:28 pm | ||
| mountainpost | Route Climbed: Festigrat Date Climbed: july 29 2001 | |
| Nice climb, beautyful view during the climb, cloudy and no view on the top --> what a pity. Good reason to do this trip again! | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2004 8:35 am | ||
| Flachlandtiroler | Route Climbed: Festigrat Date Climbed: about August 10st 2002 | |
| Reached Domhütte via Täschalp / Europaweg, very scenic hike & not much longer than standard trail from Randa. Dinner was great, very friendly warden but extremly narrow to almost non-existent beds... night is short anyway, started at 3.45 am. Lower glacier presented only few crevasses. Short rocky passages up to Festijoch were secured with fixed ropes. Conditions on Festigrat were optimum, fresh and firm snow with nearly no ice. Took us 6.5h to summit. Incredible views due to the cold weather -- Ortler as well as Monviso were clearly visible, even the Mediterranean Sea and the Apennin appered in the haze. Descending the crest on short rope required concentration for 2h, the rest was long but without further challanges. Reached Täschalp at 8.30 pm. After fresh snowfall Festigrat seems to me a much better (and straighter) way than the normal route. | ||
| Posted Oct 6, 2004 8:19 am | ||
| BODYSCULPTUK | Route Climbed: Normal route Date Climbed: 07 August 2004 | |
| Very long tour from Randa. We overnighted at the Dom Hut. It rained until 2am and of course...snowed above! We left the hut at 3am and reached the summit at 9.45am. We were keen to climb the Festigrat but it had been strongly not advised due to the icy conditions. We took the long N route and some slopes were like -killers-that day due to the fresh snow. Indeed half of the people gave up! On the way back to the hut i drop one leg in a crevasse! I di not enjoy so much to walk back on the Festigletscher(the top bit from Festijoch)in the early afternoon,because the bridges over the crevasses were melting and collapsing. My advise is that it is much safer to avoid to walk on that glacier after 2pm. | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2004 1:45 pm | ||
| Eelconl | Route Climbed: Westface Date Climbed: August 1998 | |
| Solo through the Westface! It took me about 7 hours to get on the top. Beautiful day and a lot of suprising faces on the Normal Route when I got over the ridge!!! | |
| Posted Feb 16, 2004 1:40 pm | ||
| David_Holland | Route Climbed: Festigrat Date Climbed: 29-0702001 | |
| A long climb but happynes on the summit! | |
| Posted Jan 22, 2004 1:58 pm | ||
| mymountain | Route Climbed: Festigrat from the Domhütte Date Climbed: august 2003 | |
| Hard climb but wonderful way. www.mymountain.ch | |
| Posted Jan 22, 2004 3:12 am | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | Route Climbed: Festigrat Date Climbed: 27th august 2003 | |
| An extremely beautyful ridge which I soloed in 4,5 hours from the hut. Ridge was in a quite icy condition, so I enjoyed some great frontpointing. Al the others took the normal route up, so I had fun time watching them leaving behind on long trail over the glacier. Nice views to both sides of the ridge! Descended through the normal route. | |
| Posted Aug 31, 2003 1:52 pm | ||
| jsurinx | Route Climbed: Normal route Date Climbed: 25 Aug 2003 | |
| We (Gilbert, Luc and Myself) climbed the Dom by the normal route on a sunny day. We stayed at the summit for about one hour and enjoyed the views! We wanted to do the Festigrat but on the summit of the Festijoch we had some stomachproblems so we decided to do the normal route.Nice route anyway, heavyer than the normal route on Mont blanc. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2003 11:01 am | ||
| Farmer | Route Climbed: Festigrat Date Climbed: Aug 96 | |
| We made bivac about one hour above the hut... Festi grat is a nice tour in rock and ice, and not so difficult at all. II and 45 max. Long descent to Randa !!! Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge mountain. | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2002 11:43 am | ||
| kletterwebbi | Route Climbed: Festigrat Date Climbed: Juli 1994 | |
| Climbed the Festigrat after a day of Snowfall on very good conditions and without crowds. Great and quite easy route. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2002 4:09 am | ||
| Plizi | Route Climbed: normal Date Climbed: june 2000 | |
| Easy glacier route with super sight from the top of the mountain (Matterhorn, Weishorn,Rothorn,Dent Blanche ...) | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2002 3:42 am | ||
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