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Some new years resolution: be inspired by as many climbers as possible. To start with Chris Sharma. And to share that feeling, have a look at his latest project: Golpe de Estado. A beauty as we are used from him.
Aiiiiie, so many things to do and so many things to remember. Where the heck did I wrote it down?? Pre Christmas-stress makes good art.
This picture is probably a bit digitalized, but it's the thought that counts. We adopted a cat today. 5 years old, named Gully (after Gulliver), he has a new territory to explore and a new home to defend(?). Maru (our 3 year old daughter is delighted, and so are we.
Na alle media aandacht vóór het NK is er ook het nodige te lezen ná de wedstrijd. De Volkskrant heeft een (bijna) paginagroot artikel geplaatst 'Klimmen appelleert aan droom van velen' dat je kunt lezen via deze link (voor overige media aandacht zie de posts van 12 en 13 december op de site van climbing.nl)
After having celbrated the dutch folklore 'Sinterklaas' three times at a row and a 10 mile run on sunday I feel a little knackered. Although I did the 10 mile in a (for me) reasonable 1hr 10min 49sec, I woke up a little like Calvin in the comic above. Waking up in your own dream twice, urgh....
The brother of Christian Bindhammer now has a redpoint ascent of the until now unrepeated hard-crux route in the Pinswang, Austria. After that he also repeated the 9A/9A+ rated PunktX in Gorges du Loup, which was repeated after that by the route-consumer Adam Ondra.
Although this towering concrete treehouse isn’t really green, (no matter what grows on top of it), you must be awestruck by its sheer craziness. I thought it worth a post, just for the picture. The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan is a life-size rendition of a banyan tree, also known as gajumaru. The aptly-named Banyan Town shopping center near the entrance of Onoyama Park features a twenty foot tall tree with a pan-Asian restaurant nestled amid its branches. Accessible by a spiral staircase around back and an in-trunk elevator, the restaurant specializes in locally grown and organic harvested foods fresh from the farm.
ahum, locale humor, maar toch.
I made this during the last summer holiday in France. We resided at an arti-ecological camping called Ecolonia were it was common to have these fits of expression.
That's what you get if a swimming pool is combined with a boulder facility. This wall is the most true to the original deep water soloing: a concrete rock at the rim of the pool at the new Student Aquatic Center on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. The website says: “The challenge will be great, but we wanted to simulate a real-life climbing experience as much as we could," Vaughn said. "I think we are very close to that”. And: "The wall is a 40-foot wide, 14-foot high bouldering wall that spans the west side of the facility's leisure pool. The wall, (...), was formed upon dozens of concrete fabricated panels mounted on a steel cage. The process took more than four weeks to complete, and the results are impressive, he said."
fff een tip voor de Nederlandse klimmers. Jorg Verhoeven meldt op zijn website dat hij a.s. maandag bij Holland Sport te zien zijn. Jorg zelf heeft het over 'hoe een arme klimmer in de zeik wordt genomen', maar dat lijkt me sterk. Gewoon kijken dus, maandagavond 17 november, 20.30 uur bij VPRO op Ned 3.
Although we do not celebrate trick or treat in the same way as in the US or UK, in the Netherlands we also walk down the streets asking for sweets. Supposedly there is no connection between the trick-or-treat and here it is a celebration of Sint(= saint) Maarten, in origin a religious tradition.
I found this in the archives of my digital storage. Don't be as crude as is displayed here, but otherwise the effect will be a few smiles that day.
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Ahhh, just a bit of toast with marmelade to start the day....
The Burning man Festival has been held in september this year again. A 'monstruous' big and very arty festival where everything seems possible. This pic I found in the records of previous years. Looks like a crossover of an eggplant and a pear to me, but climable nevertheless.
This is a (old) video by Charles and Ray Eames about relative size and distance. Journey from a sub-atomic molecule to the far reaches of the universe and back again...
WOW !! Mutts as a regular comic in the dutch version of the Metro newspaper. That's news which makes my day more colourful.
Don't forget! Zaterdag 1 november 2008 wachten er weer meer dan 100 nieuwe boulders om beklommen te worden op vette muziek van twee DJ's! Je kunt er naast het boulderen fijn eten van Kantina en er is een klimmersmarkt bij Fuerza Climbing met vele aanbiedingen. Haarlem is niet zo'n nachttreinstad dus je kunt in de hal blijven pitten (wel fff slaapzak meenemen) en er is ontbijt de volgende ochtend. Check http://www.bouldernacht.nl/ voor als je nog mee wilt doen, maar de inschrijving nadert zijn limiet.
'Der Aussteiger' is the name they gave it (too many meanings, I'll come back to it later).
