After all the bad luck of the last weeks, finally some fun news. The Worldcup season is over, and the results are out. I missed the Worldcup in Romania (should have gone there instead of breaking my arm) and climbed in total 3 competitions: Daone (It), Saas Fee (CH) and the competition in Rabenstein (It, …
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Results and missions
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Broken arm
After Rabenstein Dennis had to go home so I had to get myself a new belaybitch.Roeland [van Oss] called Dennis if he liked to climb in Kandersteg…so here I am in Kandersteg.I went by train from Zürich to Kandersteg and stay in the scout centre. Nice place b.t.w.Roeland and me decided to get to Kiental, …
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Rabenstein
It’s so hard sometimes to find an internet connection when you’re on the road. Luckily I’m a bit of a nerd and learn how to hack things (ooooh!)Thus. Rabenstein.I was really motivated, what a wall! Full of ice, finally a real iceclimbing comp! I couldn’t wait to get my axes in that ice.Only six girls …
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Mess
The van is a mess, even now that we’re just with a two, after Corné left.There are icescrews on the floor and draws in the bed.We tried to hang up all the stuff but now we have to cook with iceaxes above the sink. Hopeless…
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Saas Fee 3
After the comp we went for a little iceclimb. Easy but fun. Weird to climb with people I’ve never climbed with. It all was a bit messy, but I really loved swinging my axes in some ice again.Dennis and me went right. Corné, Tim and Edwin went left. Two little lengths and we ended in …
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Saas Fee 2
Day two in Saas Fee, luckily back in the camper van, with heating and electricity now. It’s just comfy and cheap. And money is not really the thing growing on trees in winter-time…So, woke up early again, this time the isolation even closed at 7:45 (Swiss time). I took some breakfast and then the waiting, …
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Saas Fee 1
So…finally internet again at the appartment of the Americans and Canadian (they say “hi”).And we took a shower too…But I’m not sure if that works as all my clothes are smelly and dirty including the sheets I’m sleeping in.It took a while to get here and when we arrived we couldn’t get any electricity. So …
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The Italians 2
And there was Polenta. Loads of Polenta.We were forced to eat it. Including the fat which was poured over it.We all didn’t like it, it was just too fat… Poor Italians, they’d been cooking for us since 4 in the midday.
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The Italians
In Italy it all goes a bit different then in the rest of Europe.If you’re blond, young and have a good smile, you can get everything done for you. If you speak two words in Italian it’s even better.So I enjoyed my time there :)Here some pictures of the competition besides the climbers…
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