Two nice climbing days in Ettringen. After climbing some VII and VII+ routes we tried some harder stuff. Seepferdchen (VIII+) and Kelle des Knopfgiessers (VIII) are two amazing routes in the Ettringer Lay. The first one is situated at the Dürener Wand and is very hard right from the beginning. After a few jam moves the characteristic S-shape finger crack asks for some hard lay backing to continu up to the second half of the route that requires thin hands and ringlocks. Saturday I managed to climb the lower part without a block (in toprope) and thereafter I figured out the crux move in the upper crack.
On saturday we toproped Kelle. This route is about 20m and starts with a really cool finger crack up to and below the bulge. From here the route starts with thin hands and after the bulge the angle of the wall eases and the crack is becoming more hands and the upper part again requires hard fingerjams. Really cool.
