From Spain to Switzerland: Iceclimbing Festival in Kandersteg

After a nice long last climbing day in Siurana we packed our stuff to be ready to leave Siurana. We were invited to the Iceclimbing festival in Kandersteg by Black Diamond. Luckily we met two nice boys from Switzerland who gave us a lift to Barcelona airport at 7 in the morning.

We arrived at Weeze airpot at 14:00, we were in Düsseldorf 2 hours later .... many hours of driving and later we arried in Kandersteg at 4 in the morning.

The competition was funny again. There was no ice, so it was totally dry tooling. This year it was about speed.. I wasn't so fast :-)

After the competition we visited the nice slideshow of Will Gladd and Tim Emmet.

The final was over very quickly, because it was about speed again, but interesting to watch. Really funny was the party after the competition :-) There was not so much sleep because we wantet to do some dry tooling on Sunday morning, that was funny again. But drytooling destroys the rock a lot so it is very important to just climb with axes on rock which is not useful for free climbing.

After a very long journey I'm back home, watching the forecasts and waiting for dry conditions :-)

Fall and Siurana

I was very happy because the weather was very nice for rock climbing the last 2,5 months, much, much better than the last two years. So I didn’t spend much time indoor and drove to my projects very often. That was a lot of fun all the time! A lot of night climbing during the week with headlamps and scary boulders with a lot of crashpads. I was very lucky to send some awesome projects, I will write about later...


During New Year and Christmas I was climbing in Siurana, the first week with Basti, later Markus and Laura arrived too.
Markus and me had a date with Bernardo Gimenez to shoot a video for Black Diamond. I think we did some very nice shoots.






(Pictures from Bernardos blog: http://bernardogimenez.blogspot.com/)

In Siurana it was very nice to meet a lot of friends again. We had a funny Christmas party at Agyros and Nikos place and of course a nice New Year party in Cornudella.

We were staying on the Camping Siurana, were we spent every evening in the bar playing games.

I have already spent a lot of time in Siurana but I still find some lines that make me want to go there again.

INGA

On my Five Ten blog you find an article about INGA I did in the beginning of october in Gorges du Loup.