- Good conditions for granite
VAL MASINO · GRANITE
Sasso Remenno climbing conditions
Good — dry and climbable
Right now
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- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
About Sasso Remenno
The biggest erratic boulder in Europe — a half-million cubic-metre chunk of compact ghiandone granite sitting on the valley floor of Val Masino, deposited by an ancient landslide from Preda Valley. Every face of the boulder is climbed: south face (easy 4a-6b in the sun), west face (learning routes from 2c), and the shaded north and north-east faces (overhanging 8s and short aid). Highly technical and powerful climbing — slabs, edges, compression overhangs. Non-porous Alpine granite, so the boulder dries fast after rain; the north side stays cool through summer and works in heat that would shut down south-facing crags in the region.
- Region
- Val Masino
- Rock type
- Granite
- Aspect
- mixed-facing
- Altitude
- 900m
- Exposure
- medium
- Seepage
- low