After a train-road-trip we arrived in Kandersteg, Swiss.It is so great to be in between those beautiful big mountains. I get this thrill of wanting to climb them all and never leave this place!There is so much to do here. Even if you’re over 50 you can still have some fun with ski-walking (langlaufen) in …
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Kandersteg
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Daone Comp 2010
Gosh, it has been some days since the last post here. I haven’t had internet closeby and the internet is quite slow…Daone was so much fun, partying with the Russians (crazy Vodka!), speedclimbing and leadclimbing which was so impressive and motivating.The day started with the dudes doing their lead climbing. Corne did his best but …
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Daone Ceremony
Arrived in the Hotel with Corne and just attended the extremely patriotic Italian ceremony.Bla, bla, bla in Italian, children in Italian colours, old men with Tiroler hats and feathers, fire brigade kids and adults and the local-forest-army-dudes playing some music and a procession through the little village of Daone.I have some video’s, but the connection …
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First real iceclimb in Europe mainland!
We arrived in Daone on Wednesday evening and slept next to the big competition wall. We stole some electricity and slept well, though, we felt our throats next day (cold?)The next day we wanted to try our brand new Black Diamon Fusion axes on the backside of the snow-speed-wall, but then we heard there was …
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On the road
Tuesday Dennis and me left for Italy. Really late (thanks to the brilliant Dutch train system) but we didn’t really care.We drove through Austra with a little sleep stop somewhere in Germany and a emergency stop after the Fernpass (the brakes started to complain).Dennis’ van is brilliant. With two sleeping compartments, heating, good music and …
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Off to Italy!
I drove around half of the Netherlands yesterday. Picking up iceaxes (thanks Tim!), picking up a Barryvox and then iceclimbing with the dudes in the Globe. And luckily we climb for free Skabbi…We did some speed climbing with the Icelandic Hedinn axes and they actually work quite ok. Still have to get used to them …
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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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Boreal late Christmas package
Finally, after e-mailing, calling, more mailing and waiting. I now have my new shoes. The Ice Mutant fits perfectly and I tried them straight away in the Globe in Den Haag. Here a little movie on my first first try with the shoes on really really hard ice in the Globe “ískápur”. (Diederik filming)My brother …
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Drytooling
Here in Holland theres loads of ice now. But it’s all pretty horizontal. Good for iceskating, bad for iceclimbing. So we went indoors and enjoyed the hospitality at Niels’ place.Valdi even did better then most of us with hanging on axes! I was just jealous!Here further not much to train, loads of things to do …
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