Author Archives - Patrick Gebert

Pure Ice

What to do if it’s too cold outside for rock climbing? Then it’s time for some ice climbing. For me a good opportunity to get to the mountains and a good balance to sport-climbing. Challenging ice climbing with friends, some skiing and sleeping in a small self-catering cottage high in the mountains made this a…

Electric Avenue

„Kirschfelsen“ – a bouldering location that I had heard quite often about in the last year, but I had never been there. So I was very pleased when Paul showed me this spot and the rumours didn’t promise too much … Steep roofs with amazing boulder sequences and interesting rock formations distinguish this place. The…

Spring Project

How do you prepare for the incoming rock climbing season? Besides training, one of the most important things for me is to estimate some projects that I want to climb over the year. That keeps my motivation high and helps me to adjust the training. The cold winter days were perfect to check out some…

Play outside

The Kalmit is one of the highest mountains in the Palatinate and a short ascent and a bunch of rocks make it a well known local bouldering spot. I enjoyed the day bouldering outside even though it was unexpected cold for a winter day in Germany. Or let’s say at least unexpected if you meet…

Frozen

I was looking forward to ice climbing for months and finally last weekend we made it to Austria. The plan was to climb two days some relaxed pitches at the frozen waterfalls of the Renkfälle in the Kaunertal. Somehow this trip got way more exhausting than expected … The last year was dominated by hard…

Photo Shot

If you want to climb in Europe during the winter months you have to travel far into the south: to Italy, France, Greece or Spain. Together with the strong boys and girls of the Felskader BW, we decided us for a team trip to Margalef in Spain. Margalef is actually a small village in the…

Fatboy

Chironico in Ticino (Switzerland) is maybe one of the most known bouldering spots in Switzerland and after sports climbing nearly the whole summer I was looking forward returning to Ticino. Together with Flo, Paul and Jan, I used the non-business days in Germany for another short boulder trip to Switzerland. With about 800 boulder problems…

Dynos and Monos

Actually, our recent team trip with our DAV rock climbing team ‚Felskader BW‘ should take place in Magic Wood in Switzerland. But the weather forecast for this weekend was pretty bad. So we decided to relocate our trip to the Frankenjura. The weather forecast there was not much better and my expectations were low –…

Long lines

Actually, I had a deal with myself – travelling until Septembre and studying at university in Octobre. Actually …. Some friends, Jan and Daniel, asked me for a spontaneous trip to the Gorge du Tarn in Southern France and I simply could not refuse. I was there a few months ago and I liked the…

Dream line

This is the story about a very special line I wanted to climb like no other this year. It was in June when I tried „La panade du lapidaire“ (8b+, but it felt more than 8c) for the very first time. A route 30 degrees overhanging, a hard sequence with 40 moves without a rest…