Our last day in Cogne today. After some quite successful and less successful climbing days we have to get back to the drytooling again. Which is not bad, I guess I need a bit of rest from the freezing cold. Yesterday walking up to the icefalls it was -17 C… When climbing the first pitch …
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Cogne > Vanoise
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Video time
Of every memorisable thing I do I make a little video. Like a diary in moving frames. So nothing spectacular, but it might give you a view on what I do out there :) This one is of what we did in Korea. The next one is Saas Fee (will be visible on Vimeo already)
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Real ice in Cogne
Finally, after a whole year of horrible ice (Kandersteg, Iceland…) we wanted to climb something proper. We heard Cogne in Italy was the only place this year that had some ice. All other areas were far too dry or warm. So, we skip the comp in Rabenstein (which would be too far anyway) and just …
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Worldcup Korea pt. 2
Grrrr… I came here to be in the finals and failed. Not much more to tell then: I’m much stronger then last year but miss the right training (wall, people) to get better and do the right thing I guess. 12 & 12 in both lead and speed. Not bad, but not good enough. Wednesday …
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Korean Iceclimbing Worldcup 2012
Finally we arrived in South Korea for the first worldcup of the season. We arrived together with two members of the Swiss team and I just lay down in bed. A bed. A bed…a real bed. We got our rooms, Dennis had to sleep in the guys room, and I was sleeping in the girls …
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(N)ice, finally
(N)ice! Well, sort of ice. We arrived in Kandersteg (CH) after an ‘interesting’ trip with a beautiful van that sometimes has ‘issues’. We joined the Festival (no ice although it’s called the “Ice Festival”) and today we finally climbed some real ice in Ueschinen. As we did so much last week here a little summaray: …
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Indoor Winter Training
Since the Dutch Drytool Event we have some drytool routes in climbinggym Rock Steady (Bussum, NL) and this is how we spent our evenings :)
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Dutch Drytool Event!
Okay, it might be the weirdest country for a Drytool comp, but I managed to organise it :) This Sunday climbing gym Rock Steady in Bussum will be filled with iceclimbers, sportsclimbers and all other kind of climbers who want to try out iceaxes! Petzl just told me they’ll provide iceaxes for the comp so …
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STS – Ice Factor, Kinlochleven
Yay, I won! We’re just back from yet another adventure: Scotland :) Dennis was lucky (I guess) as he got an ‘experience’ for his birthday instead of something material like a watch, climbing shoes or whatever. I gave him a ticket to Scotland so we could join the Scottish Tooling Series in Ice Factor (Kinlochleven). …
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