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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
On Wednesday, we used the last daylight for a short climbing session at the Retschelfels with Chris and Flo. Coming back to the Retschel was part of a deal between Flo and me: Coming back over and over again until both of us took down ‘TNT’ (8b+). I did it last time, so it was Flo’s…
A lifetime dream for every climber – this is how a French newspaper described a trip to Ceüse. And indeed it is a wonderful place to be and to climb: an over 1000m long rock wall, about 200m high and with hundreds of high-quality sport climbing routes. It’s placed on a 2000m mountain and the…
‘TNT’ (8b+) – a short but super steep route with some really tricky moves. It’s one of the benchmarks in the Palatinate and after climbing ‘Mekka’ (8b) at the beginning of the year, this was the next step. The first time I tried TNT was some years ago after climbing ‘Gamba’ (8a) and ‘Mamba’ (8a+)…
Have you ever been to Romania for sport climbing? Probably not – whereas Spain, Southern France or Greece are well-known climbing areas, Romania is a much more exotic climbing destination. So the idea of doing a climbing trip to Romania fascinated me from the very beginning. It took us a whole day to get to…
The Palatinate and the Vosges are the next climbing areas from Karlsruhe with hundreds of small rocks and secret climbing spots. We have been a lot of times in these areas, but there are still a lot of rocks I haven’t seen so far. One of them was the “Krappenfels” next to Lutzelbourg – a…