13 July 2020

Pure Dreaming Plus 9a+ by Davide Picco

Davide Picco has done hos first 9a+, Pure Dreaming Plus in Arco. It is a link-up starting by doing the hardest part of Underground and then continuing with Pure Dreaming. (c) Luca Rigo

started trying the line on the first weekend after the opening of the region. The lockdown period in Italy was tough and long and my only training chance was on the Beastmaker 2000 😅. The first tries were a real surprise because I was able to reach the last meters of the route. Given my presumably poor endurance, I wouldn't have expected that at all. From then on it was a fight against the arrival of high temperatures and summer. Luckily this past week there was a slight breeze from north (25 degrees still) and I could happily clip the chain.”

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