I just got post :) I have a new sponsor. I quit my contract with Boreal. (For all kinds or reasons) But not the one you’d think of first: shitty rubber. I have to say I was pretty satisfied with the rubber. And now I saw they even improved into really really sticky stuff. The …
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Post! 5.10 Quantum arrived :)
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Fliegerhorst drytool demo
Yay, again an excuse to go drytooling for the whole day! Theres not much opportunity (yet) in the Netherlands to get a full drytool-workout. This weekend I headed to Venlo, over 2hrs driving South-East from Bergschenhoek. The ‘Fliegerhorst’ had their ‘open-day’. They had a competition, via-ferrata, climbing, slacklining, readings, bouldering, walking and drytooling in their …
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Climbing for Cancer
Sometimes you have to remind yourself to the fact that life might be not so easy for everyone. And then as a human it’s good to help. Even just a bit is more then nothing at all. The easiest way to help is with donations. This weekend was donation weekend. For the Dutch Cancer institute …
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Ice/dry week in the Netherlands
Okay, not what you’d expect in the Netherlands but, yes, as the title says, last week was all about drytooling and iceclimbing! For my work I had to go to Voerendaal, a little village close to Heerlen in the South of the Netherlands. Living close to Rotterdam driving to Heerlen is what we call ‘going …
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Competition weekend
Back in the Netherlands. With a really busy schedule. From Bergschenhoek to Muiden to pick up my parents. They cycled over 2700km for their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela! See here their report. Then I went to Bussum (work, teaching a First Aid course) then on to Ommen (being First Aid volunteer on Dennis school …
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Home…pt.2
In my own house again. I live ‘anti-squat’ (for the Dutch: antikraak). I have a massive villa which is slowly breaking down. Starting with rats in the livingroom, mice in the ‘sun room’ and a bird in one of the bathrooms. And then all the millipedes and spiders… It took me hours to vacuum and …
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Home…in the flat country
After one 8a, some ED/ED+, hard boulders, long walks a 1/2 marathon offroad, loads of pasta&tomato sauce, many Alpine roads and 2 months without a shower…we’re back home again. But not after a quick stop in Kandersteg (sportsclimbing, mountain running and drytooling in the sun -yes, drytooling is a sport for all year round- ) …
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Kandersteg, on our way home…
Yesterday we left Chamonix after a very nice movie evening (Jackass) with -almost guide- Roeland van Oss. On the day we climbed together on some really really long granite sports routes (37m long 7a+ and more) Since the last time we had quite some new adventure involving a big wall called the Grand Charmoz. We …
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Chamonix, in rain…again
Actually rain is just perfect now. We’re having a restday after a full day of drytooling. Deserved restday I guess. This morning I denied that I felt my muscles but now, sitting here I feel stiff and tired in my shoulders and arms. Tomorrow it’s time for yet another Alpine route (if the weather stays …
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