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 …

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- ) …

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 …

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 …

Okay, I still didn’t publish the video of our Piz Badile climb. Here, the whole story in words with the video :) August 04. 2011 13:00h. Adventure Today I’m going to tell you about an adventure. An experience that went good, was beautiful but so tireing and demanding that it was something to remind of, …

Sometimes you just neeeed a restday. Like one we needed today. Good weather, clouds in the mountains, bit of rain in the morning. Perfect for a restday. We washed in the public toilets this morning, posted the usual cards to our families at home and now enjoying coffee in internet café ‘Enjoy’ in Chamonix. Dennis …

Finally, we did it. What an adventure it was. The weather was good (for just one day, when we came back in the valley it rained again). Meanwhile a lot of things ‘happened’. We traveled through Swiss, visited Chur and the Oberalppass and climbed a horrible but nice (how is that possible?) 10 pitch slab. …

Travelling around in Engadin and the Chiavenna region. Border hopping you can call it. One day on the Italian side (Chiavenna) the other day on the Swizz side again (Breggalia/Engadin valley) Due to the bad weather conditions we haven’t had the chance to climb what we’re here for. Bouldering is nice, sportsclimbing is fun though …

We bailed out of Val di Mello. Why? Rain and snow… We drove down and guessed trad and Alpine climbing would be over for the next week(s). But suddenly the Swiss forecast changed and we ‘ran’ to Bondo. Once in Bondo it rained, Piz Badile covered in clouds and when we called the hut they …