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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Scottish Tooling Series, hit&run
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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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Pray for Ice – Europacup flash-trip
No news so far from the Icelandic volcano. So, other things to write about :) This weekend I went for a ‘flash-trip’ to Innsbrück, Austria.We left Friday, landed in loads of traffic-jams, arrived in Innsbrück around 10-11-ish in the evening, slept in the car and climbed on Saturday the ‘Pray for Ice‘ comp…The first competition …
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Iceland 3
Yes, home…bored… after I did… Fitness to do yoga Ikea for a warmer bed cover and some lists for my new pictures (thanks to Gummi) Make an appointment for the VW, new Winter tyres Go to the toilet for a poo Some knitting, a new Icelandic sweater Washing all dirty clothes E-mailing Boreal, Petzl, Cintamani …
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New Nomics
Earlier today I posted something about some Pr0n. But, my real babies arrived today @ Demmenie from Alpitec/Petzl. With my babies I mean my new Nomics (for the rookies: ice axes) And gosh I’m happy with them! They’re beautiful, precise, strong and…renewed. These are finally more alpine style. Good for dry, mixed, ice and alpine …
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Winter training!
Yes, Summer is changing into Autumn, so time go get started with my axes again. Yesterday evening we (Dennis and me) had our first real drytool session. So much fun! I got a mission for this Winter. Part of the mission are the competitions in Korea, Italy, Switzerland and more… So, time to get started …
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One day left in Holland
Today I guess will be the last day in the Netherlands before I’ll leave for Daone.Really exciting. I’m still very very insecure about my iceclimbing capabilities and train as much as I can. But for my feeling, one month for changing from sportsclimber into world-class iceclimber is a bit too short…Luckily I got some great …
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