| Climbing and Rappel in " La Palestra " |
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To only 5 Km. of downtown of Esquel, you will be able to make an excellent training of sport escalade and rapel in “The Palaestra”, a natural wall of 30 mts that congregates all the climbers of the city. |
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This rocky formation of origin glaciario, is in territory of the Regiment of Esquel and it has a total equipment and a lot of security (with parabolts and spits almost all new ones and under very good conditions), because formerly this place was used by the soldiers, since it was considered as a mountain regiment, but then chivalry become and I am for the civil use, for this reason it is necessary to register in the watch of the regiment. |
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When you are arriving to the place you will notice of the change in the vegetation, you will be amid the “ecotono” that is between two the intersection point ecosystems, as the forest valdiviana and the steppe. |
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It is advisable that you leave also accompanied by a guide of the place that practices this class of adventure sports, a medium physical preparation will be you necessary to arrive to the summit of the palaestra. |
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| One sees in their base of the place, the guide will give you the whole necessary team to carry out the ascension. Escalade slippers (they also tell them foot of cat), harness, helmet of security, mosquetones with sure, mosquetones weighs it curves and direct, tubular tapes of 20 to 80 cm, tubular tapes of 1.2 meters, frieds game or camalot (they are empotradores for the rock), stopper game, rope of escalade 10.5 mm and cordín, they are the devices that you will need, besides the indispensable first-aid kit of first aids. |
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| In the Palaestra you will find but of 10 routes of different difficulty, (a couple of easy routes and the rest will have a graduation of 6a it stops up, arriving in their maxim difficulty with a 7a+, other routes like The Pili and "In memorian Guy Costa" is approximately of 6b/6c). |
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| Little by little you will leave angers taking away from the floor and winning height. “Calm” you will be carrying out escalade “top rop”, for this reason if you fall the guide it will maintain you hung, until you descend and begin again. |
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| You will feel the harness that will maintain you together to the rope, little by little you will go finding the turns in the rock that you/they allowed you to ascend more. The escalade technique is based on having 3 support points and what is looked for is to make the May it forces with the legs, they don't get tired this way the muscles of the arms that are but small. The guide - insurer always has to be attentive. |
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| The wall that you will be climbing presents good boulders and routes to equip with stoppers or some nut. |
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| Soon you will be near the summit, you will feel that the body says “coarse “only an effort more and you will feel that you will have reached the glory. From the high of the palaestra you will be able to observe the whole Mountainous Cord Esquel and Nahuel Bread, with their snowy picks. |
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| After a desert rest you will undertake the descent, you will find the hoops that you will need to tie the rope forming a triangle, to be the geometric figure that but it supports the weight and little by little to locate the rope with which you will make the rapel. |
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The rapel will be able to him to make with a “eight” that is a descensor that brakes the rope for the closed angle that forms, or with a “grigri”que is a mechanical descensor that is good to begin the rope in the middle of descent and to enjoy the landscape hung in any tract of the itinerary.
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| You will make sure well, to put the open legs and semi flexionadas and to undertake the descent without loosing both hands. Some jumps and to allow to run the rope some meters will serve so that you take trust and quickly reach mainland. |
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| You will surely fascinate the slope and you will want to make it returned without having to climb, for that you will ascend for the later face of the Palaestra where you will find a sedero a little sheer, where you will reach the summit again. |
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| When concluding the intense day you will feel satisfied and more than it conforms for the chancy and amusing sports that you have carried out. |
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