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In mid May, when the spring snow starts to fade among crocuses, my mind starts the countdown to the next snow. Somehow, if not heading to the higher alpine crags, the rock climbing season also ends in May. It\u2019s hot and humid the anti-season and it lasts till mid September. It\u2019s long.<\/p>\n

But for now, it\u2019s five months of snow ahead, thighs to burn, new forests to discover and old couloirs to visit. With the new gondola in Borsa, last year we\u2019ve been scouting a somehow new area that became more accessible by skinning over reasonable distances. We skied a few times, descending faces that we saw from the distance the previous years, both on the north and on the south, and spotted some lines for the 2022\/2023 winter. Their time has come.<\/p>\n

We also made it to some new mountains, some on the western flank of the Carpathians, some on our side. Snow was not always perfect, but there were at least two months of easy to find deep and fluffy white gold. We have now in the bag some very different types of terrain, from the beautiful backcountry hills of Bucovina\u2019s Tapu Peak, where the trail starts and ends in people\u2019s isolated homesteads, to Toroiaga\u2019s impressive 600 to 700m drop spines. Last season we were up on Rodna ridge on the 15th<\/sup> of December. Maybe this year we can beat that!<\/p>\n

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