whohooo, we have snow! So this morning we went out to play. It was just 8 ‘o clock so nobody had arrived yet because of the big traffic jams and the crappy train system. Okay, okay, it’s not as funny as when you have a T3 Syncro…
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Playing in the snow
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Preparing for January
Pictures: the windmill I went to today to buy flour for home baked bread, my parents garden in the snow today. Yesterday, today and tomorrow we’re having snowy time. Over 15cm already and that really is a lot of snow, in Dutch terms… So the trains hardly drive, all buses are cancelled, the planes don’t …
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Iceclimbing in the Dutch national newspaper.
Yesterday Dennis was interviewed for yet another kind of media: Algemeen Dagblad. The result is a very nice article about Dennis and iceclimbing. The positive thing about the article is that the interviewer seems to understand the idea of climbing and doesn’t just see it as ‘dangerous adrenaline sports’ as most do who don’t know …
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Iceclimbing @Home
After the massive Championship wall in Bodegraven, we build our own little pinnacle at home.It was all melting around us, so there wasn’t much left when we finally had the time to try out the wall.But it was funny to climb at home in flat country Holland (:
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Dutch Championships Iceclimbing
Bodegraven was for the first time (evarrr) the scenery for the Dutch Championships Iceclimbing. Thomas Knoope had built an amazing pillar and the NKBV got to the idea to hold a competition on the ice. The first on natural ice. We were lucky with the weather, today it’s around +4 degrees Celcius, but at the …
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Vertical ice in Holland!
For the first time ever: iceclimbing on natural ice, outdoors, in…my own little flat country: the Netherlands! Today, Friday will be the first Dutch ICEclimbing championships. Thomas Knoope created his own iceclimbing wall last year. This year the NKBV (Dutch Alpine Club) came to the idea of holding a competition on the wall. It’s amazing …
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Scottish Tooling Series, hit&run
And yet again another competition. After Innsbrück we now went to Schotland, Edinburgh. We were there to take part in the Scottish Tooling Series comp in EICA Ratho. A friendly competition for climbers, by climbers. There were more then 60 (!) competitors in all categories (veterans and youth included) For the qualifications we had to …
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Climbing has to be fun!
Sometimes it’s not just hardcore rock-pulling.Last weekend I was in Ith (Germany) together with the Student Alpine Club from Utrecht (USAC).And, we had loads of fun :)
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Alpin Messe – Pray for Ice
It’s video weekend. First a vid of the tradclimbing meeting and now a video of the Pray for Ice competition. Haha, you really see me fighting in that last route, my face…it looks scary…imagine meeting that girl in a dark alley… Anyway, it was fun. Just too bad they didn’t respect the female climbers too …
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