Last time when I visited Ettringen was during the Autumn meet of the Commission Expeditions Alpine Topsport (CEAT).This weekend was warmer, sunnier… And it was again the CEAT meeting. We climbed so much that I forgot to film. But, still some nice things to show. Ettringen is such a special area. The hard but silky …
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CEAT Meeting Ettringen
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Das Auto
I sold my beautiful Ford Transit van. And since I’m back in the Netherlands I try to do everything by bike, train or borrow my parents car. But I calculated all and figured it’s more expensive to go by train then by car (why???) So…the car search was on. And this is the result: a …
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Spring time – drytool time ;0
When I look around here I see little lambs, flowers, birds building nests…in other words, yes, it’s Spring time. But, when I look online I see my friends hopping around in -10˚C on Icelandic glaciers and I just watched two iceclimbing videos… Weird. The one of the DTS 2010 (Dry Tool Style, French drytooling comp) …
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Boulder 1.
Might be strange, after loosing a person you love, but, life goes on. And so I go, on, and on… Maybe a bit too fast the last week as I have a cold sore, feel really tired and wonder why my recovery goes so slow. But well, life is not bad at all, sun, putting …
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GriGri 2
A new toy. Gear-freak as I am, I’m always happy being able to test new gear :) This time it’s the new GriGri. My old precious GriGri is now replaced by it’s improved sister: GriGri 2. I noticed I’m not the only one with this new little toy, so I gave it some fancy colour… …
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Marie Koster
I haven’t been very active on my bog lately. With a reason. I have something important on me the last weeks. My grandmother. Marie Koster was her name, widow of Wout Oudshoorn, my grandfather. She was finished with the thing that drives us every day, the thing that feels so logical we hardly think about …
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Single rope iceclimbing
Stuff to think about on Dennis’ blog about using a single rope and a tag-line for pure ice routes. Linky-link here :)
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The fun scale
Climbing is a kind of profession, commitment, technique, fitness, life-goal, lifestyle, feeling-you-can’t-describe-to-your-mother-unless-she’s-a-climber…and most of all it’s is basically all about fun. Now, we always grade climbs. It’s a hard 5.10, easy 5.13a, a classic 6c… But how do you compare that all, not everybody can climb 6c, but it doesn’t mean they’re less of a …
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Iceland
Back home again, but not much time to write. I’m completely broke so it’s time to work after 2months of full time climbing in crappy Winter conditions… But hey, it was fun! And…check out my new ‘for sale‘ page, as I have quite some things for sale :) Here part 2. of the Iceland-video’s. Parrt …
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