Ice ICe baby!!
Yeah finally we found some ice ..
Not really fat but O’K ice. Yesterday we climbed the nice Couloir Lillaz. With some funny mixed ground in the end.
Today we wanted to climb an other easy route to start but there where already 3 partys in it. So we tried some harder stuff. Some M7+ /WI4 we climbed the dry part but the second pitch in to the ice was in very bad shape so we bailed.
Then we took a look at the Stevie Haston Hard ICe M10 by climbing the first 2 pitches WI5+ to the start of the cave.
After an OK qualification I was climbing the Semi Finals for the firtst time in Saas fee.
Still sore from the speed climbing yesterday with my personal record of 8.03 seconds. I made a 10th place in the Speed Final.
Unfortunately I was unable to make the move from the ice barrel up to a very high stein-pull. And pushed my own hand of my axe whilst figure-of-fouring.
Marianne made it ok to the Semi finales with the same expectation as last year (6th place).
Which created a lot of pressure, which did’t really help during the climb. So she made a 13th place.
Just survived the first night. And we will drive to the competition area in 45 min.
A 5 hour drive from Seoul to Cheongsong the apple valley
After some Dieselpump valve problem and a popped off turbo hose we made it to Kandersteg. Enjoying the hospitality of The Kandersteg International Scout Center.
Unfortunatly the last weeks have been too warm so there is almost no ice.
So the competition changed into a Drytool speed comp.
And with a 7th place in the final last night standing inbetween my ice climbing ‘heroes’ I was pretty happy.
Marianne was really disappointed missing the finals with a 10th place.
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And this is why I’m working on my VW Synro BUS again:
“The Bus” Trailer from Damon Ristau on Vimeo.
NO it’s not that “IKEA” song!!
New 16″ all terrain tires
intérieur work in progrès
In Bussum its possible to do drytool training.
Marianne made a short movie of last sundays session.
Just another day 
Drytool training in Rock Steady from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.
