Living for 3 months in the South of Germany now . And since last week Marianne finally joined me after her 1600KM walk. Lucky her, last 2 weeks its really cold with clear nights. So the Ice and Mixed conditions are getting good. Last weekend we made our first visit to Starzlachklamm with my colleagues …
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Getting MiXed-UP
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Petzl Dutch Drytool Event 30 November 2013
One more week to go. Sharpening my tools making the last training series. Marianne made 19 routes! And 2 finale routes for youth, man and women! Rules and regulations: For registration and details (Dutch) NKBV: http://www.nkbv.nl/sportklimmen/wedstrijdsport/inschrijven FB : https://www.facebook.com/events/152416328279732/?fref=ts Hope to see you this weekend!
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Algeaucup 2013
I participated last weekend the Algeäu cup the 25th edition, dress code 80’s so I found myself a 25 + year old chest harness and additional goodies. I topped the qualification route with some struggle. Unfortunately I made a judgement mistake in the Semi-final on Sunday so I could test my old harness earlier then …
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Schäfer Tannheimer Berge
Allsaints day, meaning another extra climbing day with a cold but dry weather prediction a good day for multi Pitch. Since Simon’s girlfriend is studying in the Netherlands and my girlfriend walking “around” the Netherlands we teamed up . After 2:00 hour of walking up the hill we climbed Schäfer stündchen a nice 7+/8. With …
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Aggenstein
With Richard en Karin I climbed the Aggenstein Südverschneidung. A 200 Meter 5+ “genusstour” . After 2 days of rain the weather was exceptional good on the Souths in Tannheimer berge. Aggenstein from Dennis van Hoek on Vimeo.
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Rote Flüh Hinkelstein
Octoberfest means drinking beer for most people so on the National holiday on 3 October (re-united Germany) they extend their Beer drinking :) . For us it meant another day of climbing. Together with Daniel I was going to climb a “easy route” in the Tannheimer berge on the Rote Flüh. 350M Via Barbara variation …
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Ticino (again)
Bouldering Ticino-Cironico from Dennis van Hoek on Vimeo.
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Ticino
Together with my new colleges it was time to escape the rain in Isny. A good way to get stronger for the coming winter: Bouldering in Ticino Swiss. The first real bouldering for me since a long time (valle di Mello 2011). Friday night we drove trough Austria into Swiss. We arrived in the dark to …
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Hasse Brandler Große Zinne Nordwand
After Mamolada we made some rest days and made some sporty climbs to have a mental rest. We made some nice climbs on the Sella pass. Getting more and more motivated to climb something big again. The Hasse Brandler supposed to be a great line with the best rock on the Große Zinne… We are still …
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