Ettringen

Two days crack attack with Eoin:

The first day we started climbing in sector Kühlschrank:

• EAER 22, UIAA VI, nice climbing, plenty of bolts!
• Badesalz, UIAA VI+, good crack and dihedrals. good to protect!
• Purple Haze, UIAA VII, nice hand crack with interesting finish!
• Toxoplasma, UIAA VIII-, hard fingercrack, auauaua....

We went to the Schiffsbug afterwards:

• Mettwürstchen, UIAA VII+, nice and long route!
• Pummelchen, UIAA VI, nice route with thin hands at the finish!

 Next day we started again at the Schiffsbug:

• Flowerstreet, UIAA VI+, nice clean route with harder start, rest is just fun!
• Sister Rosa, UIAA VII+, brilliant route with offwidth start, than hands! pure fun!

we continued at the Kranwand and Dürener Wand:

• Kranwand, UIAA VII, dihedral with painful finger crack, again auauauauauaua...
• Harakiri, UIAA VII-, again fingers.... with cool move from the finger crack to the left, happy with the handjam ;-)
• Seepferdchen, UIAA VIII+, thanks for the toprope to the german guys, really nice route, we are working on it...
• Total vertan, UIAA VII-.
• Handriss, UIAA VI, definitely no handjam, if  you have small hands sometimes fist, but normally cups... difficult climbing. At the end of the climbing day were painful experience - we like that ;-)

 Purple Haze

Nice rack!

 Mettwürstchen!

Val Durance

Again three beautiful weeks in the Val Durance with Marieke. Lots of sportclimbing, mountainbiking and hiking.

We started in the vallee de la guisane close to La Grave. Perfect climbing in Villar d'Arene.

From the camp ground in Freissnieres we also went to Le Pouit (steep, a bit polished and very hard rated) and also to Le Bouchier.