Happiness, pain, hard work, long days, amazing views, heat and cold, rough hands, beautiful people and in the middle of that circle… me?Really? Last month I was in Colorado.For the first time in the States. As an European I had my ideas on how it would be. Fat people, nationalism, weird expressions on freedom and …
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The Black
Ze Black. The Canyon is Black, making it an area that (even if you don’t know anything about climbing) could scare you by looking down in it.The poison Ivy, bears and loose rock in the SOB* gully doesn’t make it sound any better.*SOB Gully: the ‘path’ you walk down to get to the start of …
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Indian Creek
Indian Creeka.k.a “Mama…*”*….it hurts* ….this is scary* ….it’s so hot here* ….water, water, wat…. After a week of mental and physical challenging try-outs for the Alpine Mentor Programme I had a couple ‘restdays’. Buster and I decided to spent these days in trad Sandstone area Indian Creek.Indian Creek is a rare and special place located …
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Hooray at Ouray
This week the Alpine Mentor Programme started. We started on Monday, all excited to actually meet Steve and even climb together :) @ Bivouac Summer drytooling :) Drytooling @Vail Autumn Oh Deer! Getting ready for the Yodel Arete Yodeling up the arete :) Scrambling at the top Our first day was kind of easy, sportsclimbing …
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Alpine Mentor Programme
Tomorrow I’ll fly all the way to Denver to meet a group of very enthusiast alpine climbers.Im selected to be part of the Alpine Mentor programme coordinated my famous climber Steve House.I’ve no idea what to expect (loads of alpine stuff probably).So I’m extremely excited!And confused, as my we have to move out of our …
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Winter sale
Hi everyone.As always Dennis and I need money to have enough funds for our climbing (training, comps, trips, gear).So every year we have a big sale.See Dennis website for more details and e-mail him if you need anything you haven’t found on his site so far.
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Home
The bedroom animals are welcoming us :) After we’ve been traveling for more then a month (France, Germany, Swiss, Denmark, Iceland…)We’re home.Dennis is home after 7 (!) months of travel, study and work.It’s so strange to be here together that sometimes we have to get used to each other again.Strange but nice. Our new bed …
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Hiking adventure, Iceland
The weather has changed.Quite a bit.From +18 Celcius (when lucky) to minus-something-cold last night.We were in Vestrahorn, planning to climb there. But the weather wasn’t really cooperating. It was even too wet, windy and rainy for bouldering.We thought it would be best to slowly drive to our ‘final destination’ in Iceland: Seydisfjörður. From where we …
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Iceland, the last Summer days
Iceland only knows two seasons.Summer.and Winter.The second just arrived this week calling the end of our holiday. Snow arrived in the mountains The last week we went from Hnappavellir to our next and maybe favourite Icelandic wall: Fjallastakkanöf. View from our office Left side of Fjallastakkanöf Note the hexagon shaped block We decided it was …
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