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Feldschijen - Rayo Delgado (6b, first ascent)

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During our visit of the Feldschijen west-ridge (not to be confused with its bigger brother, the Salbitschijen west-ridge) we enjoyed a nice view of the surrounding rock faces, and their features. In particular, the face towards the south boasted a series of prominent cracks, which had not been climbed - as far as we knew - how exciting! Soon, we returned prepared to claim this obvious line, wondering how nobody had seen it before. Well, if I had looked a bit closer during our late descent from the west-ridge, I would have noticed the bolts...did we bring all the heavy gear for nothing? Fortunately, no! A couple dozen meters next to the original target, we spotted a thin crack running up the steep face. It looks so thin! Is it fingers? Could be heavy. And even worse, over a few critical meters the crack seemed closed...is this part climbable? As we can now report happily, it is, and nicely so! Due to its thin (hands) character, we decided to name these four pitches Rayo Delgado (100m, 6