Boulderblok Rotterdam en Den Haag - Outdoor Boulder Structures Netherlands

That's the way!! Finally the Lowlands will have their own outdoor boulder rocks. Bart van Raaij, famous in the Netherlands for his love of climbing combined with his skills in designing, has made a preliminary design (above) for a serious bouldering construction in Rotterdam. Right now decisions have to be made about which constructor has the guts to take the challenge of building the rock.

Den Haag has a head start over Rotterdam because the construction has already begun. It's a combination with a skatepark (pic below) which probably made it easier to realize anyway.

Rotterdam has choosen a freestanding boulder rock with 20 logical lines and loads of possible variations to climb. This project is not yet in the realisation phase but has a good chance of becoming real. Keep U posted or check http://www.bladoverklimmen.nl/

bron: bladoverklimmen.nl

competition mountain climbers reaches new level

Yuk, yuk a fine cartoon with some indepth illusion to the mountaineering society

Copy Boulder block Fontainebleau Germany

Look at this. So many boulderstructures are being made all over Europe. In Germany, Gilching, they made a copy of a boulder block from Fontainebleau. Freestanding in the open air the block has a dimension of 4m high, 9m wide and provides 139 m2 of boulder fun. The company Entre-Prises even build in a cave of 45 degrees. OY! when is this going to happen in the Lowland !! Not that the weather is better in Germany or what ?!

source: hallen.climbing.de

Ice skating v.s. Ice Climbing

This is it !! The weather gods have made this a memorable winter for the Dutch Ice skating fanatics. The pic above wat taken during my first tour at the Naarder Meer (the Netherlands). Four days of ice skating on other lakes (Oostvaardersplassen, Nieuwkoopse plassen, Ankeveen)
have made me a very, VERY happy man.

BUT !! the winter ain't over yet. Another adventure awaits us in Norway. In the Rjukon area many ice waterfalls long to be climbed by us. A convenient flight from Düsseldorf to Oslo replaces the 16 hour drive that we normaly would have to endure (Thnx Timmie !!).
And, considering the very good performance from the video camera in de Dutch freezing conditions, this time I am going to make some footage from the action. Tim "figuring-of-fouring", Hans "heelspurring" and me: dangling on some Blackie's to make the most memorable shot and get to the core of the action.

Anyway, let's first get our gear and buts to Europe's mecca for ice climbers.
(R)jukon Ho ! here we come !!