Ettringen

First week of july Marieke and I spent almost a week in Ettringen again. We met Eoin en Ted and had a great time together. Eoin actually redpointed "Mut der Verzweiflung", VIII+,IX- and I got the opportunity to tope rope twice. Hard and impressive crack!

I climbed some new routes like Harakiri (VII-) on the Dürener Wand, Meister Proper (VII), Goldbärchen (VI) and Analstahl (VI+) at the Music Hall. I also redpointed Wirbelsäule (VIII-) on the Grosse Wand in my second attempt, short but really impressive finger crack.

We met Günther who was one of first generation of openers in the Ettringen area in the late 80's. Günther told some really cool stories out of these days. He opened for example Geierwally, Phoenix and Capuccino corner on the far right of Grosse Wand. He had a new project on the Grosse Wand and one morning we worked together on cleaning and placing bolts, great time with him!!

 rope work for the new route...

 the cleaning kit...

cleaning and testing...

 placing bolts...

 Marieke lead climbing on the K-riss at the Music Hall

 upper part of the K-riss...

 upper part of Meister Proper...