{"id":588,"date":"2015-08-17T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2015-08-17T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:33:21","slug":"grepon-mer-de-glace-aiguille-du-grepon-chamonix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Grepon-Mer de Glace, Aiguille du Grepon, Chamonix"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Aiguille<\/a>

Aiguille du Grepon in the winter, photographed from under a paraglider<\/p><\/div>\n

We finally got to go to Aiguille du Grepon East face to climb one of the ultra classic granite routes in the Mont Blanc range: Grepon-Mer de Glace with Sami Modenius and Cyrilde Pic. It\u2019s a long, easy and beautiful route on a big and complex face. The route follows ledges and weaknesses and if one stays on a good route, it\u2019s not hard climbing, more like fun 850 meters of good, fun granite. For me it\u2019s been one of the classic summits in the Mont Blanc range but not until now I got to give it a try. Weather forecast looked good and everybody had the time so up to the Envers hut we went. We hiked slowly to save energy and not sweat too much. Our gardienne Eve took good care of us as always, fed us well and showed us our room for a few hours of sleep. Evening was beautiful with sun and the moon playing together and the night was cold and full of stars. Snow at the glacier was freezing so everything looked good for the early morning start.<\/p>\n

\"Sunset<\/a>

Sunset and moonrise<\/p><\/div>\n

We woke up early and hiked in the dark, being at the rimaye just as it was getting bright enough to see without headlamps. Rimaye passed easy and the first slippery and cold ramps took us well on the way, still in the dark shadows. Climbing was easy but fun, the rock good and route finding went well. We stopped for a second breakfast on a good ledge few hundred meters up to enjoy the sunrise.<\/p>\n

\"Early<\/a>

Early morning<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Granite<\/a>

Granite still in the shadows<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Second<\/a>

Second breakfast on a good ledge<\/p><\/div>\n

The route continued nice and easy and the rock got even better. It was so much fun to move on a good granite with nice, constant pace and just enjoy climbing on a classic route with good friends. Nice, warm weather, nobody else on the mountain, good rock, good wibe.<\/p>\n

\"Smiling\"<\/a>

Smiling<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Moving<\/a>

Moving from one ledge to another<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Good<\/a>

Good pitches<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aiguille<\/a>

Aiguille du Roc, Grandes Jorasses and Dent du Geant<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Old<\/a>

Old trad gear<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Still<\/a>

Still a way to go<\/p><\/div>\n

Towards the end of the route the climbing good really good, the pitches steeper and after the legendary Knubel crack the Madonna greeted us on the summit. And what a cool summit! Small, flat with a rock to sit on and a madonna to watch over us. So nice! Thanks Sami and Cyrilde!<\/p>\n

\"Sami<\/a>

Sami and Cyrilde at the summit<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Finnish<\/a>

Finnish smile<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The summit with madonna, Mont Blanc in the background<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We finally got to go to Aiguille du Grepon East face to climb one of the ultra classic granite routes in the Mont Blanc range: Grepon-Mer de Glace with Sami Modenius and Cyrilde Pic. It\u2019s a long, easy and beautiful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odesiivonen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}