Last weekend it was the final change to practice for Iceland. The boat to Iceland will leave on 31 July. So we made some routes in Etteringen true nice basalt cracks. And packing all the climbing gear Local Brasserie du Chardon dark beer

Last weekend I was at the outdoor fair to find a new internship for 2013 . And to take look at all the new innovative gear on the market. For Petzl I have bene testing the new harness, super light helmet and spirits for last 4 months and they are Great! The high-lights on “hardware” …

Yesterday Marianne had the Film Premiere of the short movie “Zonder:. A movie about freelance (ZZP). The Movie: ZONDER from ZONDER. | Johan Kramer on Vimeo.

30º acording to the termometer in my car and i’m sure its not off. Driving to Simon’s place on friday afternoon to  make a “Alpine plan” for the weekend. “There is no way to climb anything down the vally with this heat so we have to go up.” I totally agree with Simon but even …

The big peak rising above Crolles. The first time Marianne and me visited Crolles  we said: ” we have to climb that tooth” . The first plan to climb one of the direct lines on the big south face turnout not to be such a good idea. It wood take over 2/4 days of bigwall/ …

Yesterday me and my college Simon from Petzl went drytooling. We brought loads of “new ” tool designs to test. For me the perfect time to find out the possiblities in L’Usine. The locale DTS  spot http://www.dry-tool-styl.com/ After warming up Simon send his project “fuck me i’m DTS” a D12 After 2 shots on the D 12 …

Thursday afternoon.. An other day at the office. Benoit one of my Petzl colleges  comes up to me. If I wanted to come with him tomorrow to climb the Northface of the Meije. The weather supposed to be very good and his friend just canceled.. Uuuh Wy not . So next morning 6 o’ clock …

A other rainy weekend according to the weather forecast. All over France it supposed to be bad. So we took the short drive to Presles only 65 Km from Crolles.With the Syncro it still takes over 1,5 hour to get there true all the small steep mountain roads. A valley full of 300M high limestone …

Marianne and me have been Brain storming for some time to go on a BIG climbing trip. The Idea drive the Syncro van true Asia to China and back through Russia around 2015. And climb as much as possible! And we think its crazy.. guess what.. We are not the only crazy Syncro drivers.