I climbed this with Christian, a new climbing partner who had an ad on the website of the German Alpine Club (DAV).
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Kirchlexpress, lower section
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I walked up to the Stripsenjochhaus on the previous evening and we met up for the first time at the start of the climb. We started climbing at 8:20 and got to the top of the climb at 16:40, then back to the hut at 19:15. The climb was typical for a newer "alpine" sport climb at that grade, i.e. not much of a logical line, and more of an attempt to connect sections of climbable rock together to make a whole climb. However, there were not much grass and not much loose rock, and the climbing on the harder pitches was at times quite good.
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Kirchlexpress, upper section
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I also enjoyed the descent. Once the red markings have been found there is not much danger of losing the way. We downclimbed the upper abseil pitches, but the lower ones were steeper and maybe longer, so we abseiled those. We got lost shortly before the hut at a point where it turned out that it is necessary to climb up an easy rocky slab to the right to get to the top of a hummock from which it is then possible to walk down directly to the hut.
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Kirchlexpress, exit cracks
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