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Comici route
A relatively easy Comici Route

 The route goes up the central (less obvious) chimney. The descent is down the gully to the left....note the snow at the bottom  Looking over to Mazzorana and Mazzorano Adler on Piz Popena Basso   Heading for the buttress  Fiona in a chimney   Mike climbing   Checking the route description   Probably the Cristallo Group   Sorapis Group     Cristallo Group  Top of the climb. You can actually abseil off before this point but we decided to continue to the top   One of many abseils - our topo suggested we'd need to downclimb but the descent is equipped with multiple new abseil rings  We didn't bargain for quite this amount of snow. With an axe it would have been fine but without abseiling was a far safer option.  Sorting out the rope tangle which somehow Mike avoided by sending me first as the rope lemming  After numerous abseils and some scary down climbing on choss, snow and general yukky terrain we finally get back onto the scree with the walking path in sight. Our descent route doesn't look too bad from here but took almost as long as the climb!  Looking back at the climb.