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A positively alpine start on Sunday. We were at the base of the formation by about 9am only to find a party of three on the opening pitch of Alas Del Viento route (a new 13 pitch, 5.10b). The guys were very kind and let us pass. Climbing was better than we had expected. Yes, there were some sections of walking but there are enough quality pitches to make it a worthwhile outing. After about 7 pitches, we joined with the Filo Noroccidental route (which we had climbed five years earlier) atop its third pitch. We continued up Filo Noro and were on the summit before 1pm. We found a conga line of tourists being “guided” to the summit up some fixed hand lines (sketchy shit). Two short raps down the usual descent chute and a bit of scrambling down all while being yelled at by a “guide”. Anyway, thanks to a local cop waiting for us at the exit from the tourist trail, we learned that climbing was not allowed on that particular Sunday and, in fact, we needed to register at the entrance to the trail before climbing anything on the front side (including descending). Glad we’re done with that place.

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