Here in Holland theres loads of ice now. But it’s all pretty horizontal. Good for iceskating, bad for iceclimbing. So we went indoors and enjoyed the hospitality at Niels’ place.Valdi even did better then most of us with hanging on axes! I was just jealous!Here further not much to train, loads of things to do…
So, 2009 is gone and we’re already more then a week in 2010 (weird number) I’ve been busy iceclimbing, drytooling, bouldering and climbing all around in Holland. And of course enjoyed the nice weather here: really cold and snowy.Do you have any good plans for this new year? Loosing weight, climbing even harder, find a…
I was disqulified, don’t ask I wont tell :-( . see : Dennis Speed
I just finished climbing and it didn’t go really well.. The new rules say that every climber has 2 try’s to clip the first draw so if you fall down before the clip you can start again. I was climbing as number 3 on the list wearing bib number 16 . The climbing structure is…
Finally i’m here in Kirov, It was a 14 hour train drive from Moscow. And in Russia today its Christmass.. I don’t know why. The temprature in Moskou was -15 kind a cold but here its even -27 just f*cking freezing. Before i took the train i stay’d at Pavel Dobinsky’s place and we did…
Kirov So I’m of to Russia tomorrow. After a lot of fussing about to obtain a visum, I’m about to set of. My flight for Zürich leaves at 14.00 hours and I’ll transfer to Moscow there. In Moscow, I’ll get the Trans Siberian Express to Kirov. That’s about 1.000 kilometer of traveling. I will participate…
28-12-09 After a 12 hour drive we were finally there! Erik and I had arrived at Kientall! The perfect spot to climb the first mixed routes of the season and to introduce Erik to the wonderfull world of mixed climbing. Or is it?!? On arrival (ca. 22.00 hours) the temperature turned out to be about…
Good news! Believe it or not, but the first Sponsor is a fact! Sterling Rope has decided to sponsor me with some equiptment. No more thick, frozen ropes for me. Flexible, well managable ropes instead! The ropes I’ll be using are: A Fusion Ion: a super lightweight single rope for OS and redpoint mixed routes. and a set…
Ja sneeuw pret op en top !! Met wel bijna 20cm de afgelopen dagen hebben wij ons wel vermaakt afgelopen weekend. Donderdag en Vrijdag avond gesurft geniaal. En zondag Middag 5 uur lang van een heuvel in Barendrecht af gegleden. 5 uur gevuld met grap’s 3tjes draaien en nodigen crashe’s. Dit samen met andere snowboarders…
Op 9-12 heb ik in steeppart een speed training gedaan. Omdat mijn taxi laat van zijn werk was konden ik Erik en Richard pas om 21:00 beginnen met de training. Omdat de ijswand gerepareerd was viel het erg tegen om een goede run te maken. Des ondanks was het een goede training. Steeppart bedankt! filmbeelden…
Januarie 2009 M8 in Kandersteg Oeschinenwald. Ik test hier de DMM anarchists voor het eerst. Wat een Crackbijlen!… Foto: Sander van de Werf www.sandervanderwerf.nl
