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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Competition weekend
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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..
so after 3000km + The vw t3 syncro made it just fine. The “new” engine worked good. So home again. cleaning unpacking. getting ready to leave again :) . Cham, Kandersteg and Ettringen. Summer climbing pt. 9 from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.
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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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Driving home
3 more days to go. After some more days in Cham we are in Kandersteg. Resting after drytooling with 23 degrees outside. Driving to Etteringen tommorow. In Chamonix we climbed one more great Alpine line the Coudier piller at The Grand Charmoz. Great crack climb really good rock and a lot of crazy guide´s. Grand …
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Petit dru Direct American
Great climb really long and demanding but wonderfull. After 23 pitches i was to tired to climb the 7a´s above the bigblock free but Marianne made the First 7a pitch OS at 3500 m .. Petit Dru Américaine Directe from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.
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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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Survival in bad weather
So here we are in Cham 3 days after a great climb waiting for some good weather. After the Badile the weather in Swiss turned bad again. Whit out any good weather in sight we decided to move on again. So we took every high mountain pass possible :) But whit the bad weather it …
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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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