Trettachspitze - Traverse with Mari (northeast ridge up, northwestridge down)

 I unfortunately had to cancel my planned trip to Latvia, but today I was able to take comfort in my beautiful home: the Allgäu. And since one of my best firends, Mari, the "Quatschimann" is in town at the moment, we decided to climb one of the Allgäu's classics: the Trettachspitze. Not very hard in difficutly, it is still an alpine climb and Maris first.

So, here a few pictures:

Mari checking out the topo during a short rest with the mountain to climb in the background

Another one of the Allgäu's distinctive mountains: the Höfats

Mari on the first bealy

Mari following the second pitch

Mari lead the third pitch. Props for that!

Fooling around on one of the belays

Viva Italia, Mario!

On the summit. Not allone though...

That was fun: a party of five rapelling down the northwest ridge after us

Enjoying this awesome landscape with the Trettach in the background

Me with a wet behind: hard snow field ride down from the Trettachspitze

Last pic, nice tour.

If any of you guys want to know more about this lovely peak, check out Walter Hölzler's article. He writes about the first ascent of the Trettach Spitze and a route through it's east face: the Lobenhoffer Route:
http://www.bergzeit.de/magazin/trettachspitze-ostwand/