Ice in Cogne

Jeroen and I had a nice weekend of climbing in Cogne. Nice and stable winter weather and excellent conditions in Chamonix. But... 2 days before departure I twisted my right ankle quiet badly... In the end we climbed three unknown routes in Cogne, better than staying at home anyway.

 day 1: Vertigine Porcellana, WI3+, two pitches, on the right side of the Valleille, after Levure, nice place.


 Jeroen in the second pitch of Vertigine...

Second day: L'ago di Money, WI4+, with nice thin mixed start in the first pitch.

 

Start of first pitch

First pitch from belay...

start of second pitch...

 third pitch, really nice




start of 4th pitch, thin, but really cool climbing

 exit pitch 4

 first pitch of hidden ice, the topo mentions 4 pitches, but we climbed it in 2 pitches.

on the right L'ago di money and on the left hidden ice.

Ettringen in november

Nice but cold and wet weekend in Ettringen with Jeroen. We climbed at Schiffsbug at next day in Zeckenloch. Mordor is currently closed due the potential breading activity of bubo bubo...

 

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Ecrins 2019

Andreas and I spent one week in the Ecrins, we planned to climb the SSE-ridge of Pic Gaspard but did not get any further than the start of the route. Nevertheless we had a nice week together, climbing some easy alpine stuff, sport climbing and dreaming of bigger routes...

 on our way to the hut


approach to the start of the Point Emma traverse integrale

on the traverse, nice views on the south face of La Meije, which we climbed a few years ago...

 interesting and long approach from the hut to the base of the SSE ridge of Pic Gaspard

SSE ridge...

Ettringen

Plenty of crack climbing end of august 2019 with Jeroen...

Annot and Orco

In july Marieke and I went to Annot (France) and to Valle del Orco (Italy) to see some nice cracks for climbing.

Ettringen Episode 1 2019

Last weekend we started our crack season in Ettringen, so happy to be back with Marieke and Mike. New sectors and routes for us at the Steingarten, Schatzinsel and Greenhorn.
Absolut must climb the finger and hand crack on the far left at Schatzinsel, Faustrecht at Greenhorn and some other pretty cool hand cracks....