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| Punta
Cusidore raises from the lands between Oliena and Dorgali with a calcareous
wall up to 500 metres high. There are a lot of other walls in Sardinia
high just like this one and sometimes they are even more impressive;
but this is the only one that calls someone the Dolomites mountains
to mind. It is perhaps for that reason that Punta Cusidore has always
been considered the Sardinians mountain; it has always been a longed-for
goal of alpinists but of sports-mountain climbers too who wanted to
feel a different emotion…I consider this aspect very beautiful; in
my opinion this is undoubtedly due to the mountain north west spur,
which has been able to make a lot of generations alpinists and sports-mountain
climbers dreaming with its unmistakable profile; perhaps just those
who were used to little walls, 20 metres high and sparkling with bolts.
It is so logical that the most longed for and sought-after route is
the one opened by the customs officers of Predazzo in 1973: it is
a line bordering more or less the spur and which offers 17 pitches
on almost 700 metres of length. It is a climbing which is almost an
Alpine one; a route where there are only few pitons and where in spite
of the difficulties which aren't very high you will experience a typically
alpine adventure. Go with an expert friend, go with an alpine guide;
what really matters is that you go there at least once in your life.
Sardinians consider Punta Cusidore as the Aguglia…you cannot avoid
climbing it! |
PUNTA CUSIDORE, north-west spur
(photo Maurizio Oviglia) |
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