27-01-2010 As you all know by now, the competition in Saas Fee has ended pretty good for the team, especially for Dennis and Marianne. They finished pretty good and they are now preparing for Rabenstein. In order to do that, they have taken THE VAN to Italy. Weather is great and it’s even sunny. All …
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Intermezzo…
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Mess
The van is a mess, even now that we’re just with a two, after Corné left.There are icescrews on the floor and draws in the bed.We tried to hang up all the stuff but now we have to cook with iceaxes above the sink. Hopeless…
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Saas Fee 3
After the comp we went for a little iceclimb. Easy but fun. Weird to climb with people I’ve never climbed with. It all was a bit messy, but I really loved swinging my axes in some ice again.Dennis and me went right. Corné, Tim and Edwin went left. Two little lengths and we ended in …
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Saas Fee 2
Day two in Saas Fee, luckily back in the camper van, with heating and electricity now. It’s just comfy and cheap. And money is not really the thing growing on trees in winter-time…So, woke up early again, this time the isolation even closed at 7:45 (Swiss time). I took some breakfast and then the waiting, …
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Saas Fee 1
So…finally internet again at the appartment of the Americans and Canadian (they say “hi”).And we took a shower too…But I’m not sure if that works as all my clothes are smelly and dirty including the sheets I’m sleeping in.It took a while to get here and when we arrived we couldn’t get any electricity. So …
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Results Saas Fee
24-01-2010 The results are in! UIAA just send the results out via Twitter and we’re finally able to do something about our curiosity. Here’s Dennis’ results: Men’s lead:number 14 of group B 29th (shared) Men’s speed: 6th Way to go Dennis! For full results, see the UIAA results page Pictures: Karin Schaffner Picture:Marianne van der …
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Ice climbing team in Kandersteg
19-01-2010 Ueschinen After getting drunk in Daone we took de bus for a ride to Ice climbing Mekka Kandersteg. To find out it was not just us but allmost the complete competition scene was here. Bulgarians, English, Roemenians, Russians, Spanish, Ukranians and the Dutch. So when we finally got up to Ueschinen after a lazy …
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The Italians 2
And there was Polenta. Loads of Polenta.We were forced to eat it. Including the fat which was poured over it.We all didn’t like it, it was just too fat… Poor Italians, they’d been cooking for us since 4 in the midday.
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The Italians
In Italy it all goes a bit different then in the rest of Europe.If you’re blond, young and have a good smile, you can get everything done for you. If you speak two words in Italian it’s even better.So I enjoyed my time there :)Here some pictures of the competition besides the climbers…
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