And now it’s all official. I’m member of the Dutch Iceclimbing Team. “Nederlands team IJsklimmen” they call us. Together with Corné Brouwer, Dennis van Hoek and Jurgen Mesman we’ll conquer the World cup’s (no, it’s not a special kind of bra) Iceclimbing in 2011! It’s funny to see myself on the picture, I look like …
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Our team!
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Bergsportdag 2010 (Mountainsports-day)
This Sunday was the day. The day we presented our 2010-2011 NKBV Dutch Iceclimbing Team. We even got some beautiful vests to wear with big orange letters saying “Nederland” on our back. The day was successful but very long. I didn’t have the time to talk to friends I hadn’t seen for such a long …
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Travelling in Holland
First walking, then cycling and now by car everywhere through Holland. Last week Jort and me met up and went to some of his costumers (Boreal, Moon, and more) we talked a lot and had fun. We ate some massive plate of spare-ribs and I dropped my camera right in the sauce…luckily the thing is …
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NKBV “Mountainsportsday”(Bergsportdag)
At the Blokhoeve in Nieuwegein, in The Netherlands was the “Mountainsportday” (Bergsportdag). For the Team it was a special day because the New team sponsor was promoted. For 2010 the team sponsor is : After the promotion of our Sponsor, we gave a demo with the sportsclimbing team on a drytooling route. The route that …
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Hans van Mierlo
Now normally this blog is about climbing and related issues. So, I thought I should change it a bit. Just because climbing is not the only thing in my life. But it’s difficult, almost scary to write about different issues. Especially scary to write about politics, because it’s so sensitive. These days Dutch politics are …
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Bergsportdag 2010 (Mountainsports-day)
Hi :) This Sunday is a day everybody should get to Nieuwegein (close to Utrecht, Holland) That day we’ll have the Dutch Alpine Federation Mountainsports-day (what a word!) or: NKBV Bergsportdag. The climbing, bouldering and iceclimbing team for 2010-2011 will be presented and we’ll give a little drytooling show (in the climbing gym it’s too …
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Cycling through Holland
…And you thought Iceland was a horrible country to cycle. Well, Holland isn’t much better when you cycle through the flatlands with the wind in your face for…98 kilometres. The first day was fun: loads of sun, hardly any wind and good to see Holland again: windmills, birds, water, and tiny ferries instead of bridges …
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Find the mis-fit
Yes, I’m still a girl. Which means I sometimes walk on high heels, dress up in skirts and buy myself other shoes then just climbing shoes. But it’s rare though… So…find the shoes that don’t fit in the picture… Last week I was lucky to meet Vincent from ‘Racket Service Almere‘ (Almere= a city in …
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Ice climbing 2010 Pictures
Some –> pictures <–of this year enjoy. Photo: Marianne van der Steen Photo: Marianne van der Steen
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