Driving from Badgastein Austria to Isny Germany in a Rain storm. No too bad at least the car-window is cleared from salt. The āUrban Iceā competition is canceled because of warm weather and there is no ice to be found after warm fĆøhn winds and heavy rain showers.
A beautiful morning in Isny, the sun is shining and there is no ice to be found . So lets get down and dirty in Statzlachklamm for the sake of training..
Walking through a sunny field green leaves are growing. It looks like early spring. On the the end of the field its time to walk down in to the āklammā a dark wet, moisty and cold but not cold enough place.
On the edge of the dark cave watter is running down and the icles ar melting drip drip… A sad sight.
starzlachklam
But there is one more route to climbāD/M14ā and no matter if we climb it; its great training for the upcoming worldcups. Stil warmish from the walk down I get my kit on swing my arms around. Tighten my helmet a bit more.. Poink…My helmet slides down over the front of my face. I just lost myĀ adustment-wheel of my helmet. Hmm owke no helmet… Ā and I start to climb.
Sport mixed climbing is one of the most ineffecient torture methodes ever.. A mix of dripping water torture and streching your body in all kind of awkard positions. After a heel hook from the 5th quickdraw I manage to scratch my sharp crampons over my bare hands..
Mixed climbing is so ineffecient torture because you never really get to that point that normal waterdripping torture will get you The water is so stupidly cold you will get hypotermic before going mad. And ofcourse it should be frozen Ice!
Marianne training in ” pray for power”
So there Iām climbing drip drip. Making another long move through the roof. After the crampon scratch my fingers also start to drip blood. Drip, drip drip.
My feed slip of half way the route my high point so far but I manage to get back in drip drip.
Oww fuck I hate this wet shit Almost three quater of the route done drip drip. Finaly sort of a rest a bad heel hook and a good pick placement to only thing Drip DRIP. Is the f*cking water DRIP dRIp in my face. Trying to shake the pump out.
Dennis
DRIp drip not recovering, slowly getting cold. .. Starting yelling Arrrhh starting to realise that just letting go is only the easy way out of this Drip dRIp situation.
But no !I climbed the hard part I have to finish drip Drip it off. Making the next move half mad of the water dripping torture making another mistake No power left trying to get my feet back in turrning and DRip drip[.. F*ck now a switch in my head flips over. And Iām flying through the air. Itās such a mental game.. ..
Yelling that I cant do it Iām not good enough I throw my icetool in the wet mud under me drip drip min my face on my way down. So angry and so disappointed I grab my tool and throw it away in a random direction (read: river) . still standing under the route drip drip.
How can you be mentaly sane ,going down in to this cold dark shit hole. Having pleasure in getting pumped over strectching my limps kicking crampons in my hand undergoing water dripping hypothermia torture because itās fun..?
No ! I Hate sport mixed climbing just for the sake of being āNormalā
“I hate mixed climbing”
I hate mixed climbing!
Driving from Badgastein Austria to Isny Germany in a Rain storm. No too bad at least the car-window is cleared from salt. The āUrban Iceā competition is canceled because of warm weather and there is no ice to be found after warm fĆøhn winds and heavy rain showers.
A beautiful morning in Isny, the sun is shining and there is no ice to be found . So lets get down and dirty in Statzlachklamm for the sake of training..
Walking through a sunny field green leaves are growing. It looks like early spring. On the the end of the field its time to walk down in to the āklammā a dark wet, moisty and cold but not cold enough place.
On the edge of the dark cave watter is running down and the icles ar melting drip drip… A sad sight.
starzlachklam
But there is one more route to climbāD/M14ā and no matter if we climb it; its great training for the upcoming worldcups. Stil warmish from the walk down I get my kit on swing my arms around. Tighten my helmet a bit more.. Poink…My helmet slides down over the front of my face. I just lost myĀ adustment-wheel of my helmet. Hmm owke no helmet… Ā and I start to climb.
Sport mixed climbing is one of the most ineffecient torture methodes ever.. A mix of dripping water torture and streching your body in all kind of awkard positions. After a heel hook from the 5th quickdraw I manage to scratch my sharp crampons over my bare hands..
Mixed climbing is so ineffecient torture because you never really get to that point that normal waterdripping torture will get you The water is so stupidly cold you will get hypotermic before going mad. And ofcourse it should be frozen Ice!
Marianne training in ” pray for power”
So there Iām climbing drip drip. Making another long move through the roof. After the crampon scratch my fingers also start to drip blood. Drip, drip drip.
My feed slip of half way the route my high point so far but I manage to get back in drip drip.
Oww fuck I hate this wet shit Almost three quater of the route done drip drip. Finaly sort of a rest a bad heel hook and a good pick placement to only thing Drip DRIP. Is the f*cking water DRIP dRIp in my face. Trying to shake the pump out.
Dennis
DRIp drip not recovering, slowly getting cold. .. Starting yelling Arrrhh starting to realise that just letting go is only the easy way out of this Drip dRIp situation.
But no !I climbed the hard part I have to finish drip Drip it off. Making the next move half mad of the water dripping torture making another mistake No power left trying to get my feet back in turrning and DRip drip[.. F*ck now a switch in my head flips over. And Iām flying through the air. Itās such a mental game.. ..
Yelling that I cant do it Iām not good enough I throw my icetool in the wet mud under me drip drip min my face on my way down. So angry and so disappointed I grab my tool and throw it away in a random direction (read: river) . still standing under the route drip drip.
How can you be mentaly sane ,going down in to this cold dark shit hole. Having pleasure in getting pumped over strectching my limps kicking crampons in my hand undergoing water dripping hypothermia torture because itās fun..?
No ! I Hate sport mixed climbing just for the sake of being āNormalā
Cheers, @ van life
I guessĀ I’m not :p
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