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heiko
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Daniel, believe me, you can't imagine how muc I'd LOVE to be in Berlin today. Sitting in a nice homely café, reading a climbing magazine or a guidebook, or Zitty to see what's up for the evening... sometimes I really miss it, man. :cry:
But then... most of the time I don't. ;)
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uasunflower
Apr 25, 2006, 8:58 AM
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heiko, c'mon, we need countries with mountains and no civilization. 21st century sux anyway...
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tisar
Apr 25, 2006, 9:05 AM
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In reply to: Daniel, believe me, you can't imagine how muc I'd LOVE to be in Berlin today. Sitting in a nice homely café, reading a climbing magazine or a guidebook, or Zitty to see what's up for the evening... sometimes I really miss it, man. :cry: But then... most of the time I don't. ;)
Now, if you were here, you wouldn't sit in a café but in the office :roll: 21st century that is *sigh*
- Daniel
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paolo75
Apr 25, 2006, 10:19 AM
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In reply to: Guys, what a f* country am I living in??? Today's a holiday here, and I'm not kidding, but getting a friggin Croissant and a coffee was a quest!!! I'm living in the CITY CENTRE gddmmt! Every single one of the ~10 bars between my house and my office outside of town was CLOSED. So were the two bars near the office. I had to drive 5km to another village to get food! What am I supposed to do for lunch??? Drive to friggin Austria??? :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: Could someone please come and move this country from the 19th to the 21th century ???
do not complain...you live in a gorgeous area...and you can start cooking something from time to time. :wink:
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paolo75
Apr 25, 2006, 10:54 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: do not complain...you live in a gorgeous area... Says the Italian who decided to live in Brussels :lol:
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tisar
Apr 27, 2006, 7:30 AM
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:shock: I already thought the thread vanished... I had to take a link from another thread to find it again... maybe this puts it back... hope so...
Heiko, weren't you up to post the Pfalz gathering? I fear we have to fix it before the tickets get unaffordable. Would be better to book the flights this week...
Hava nice one everyone!
Daniel
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heiko
Apr 27, 2006, 7:48 AM
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You're right, will do immediately.
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tisar
Apr 27, 2006, 8:34 AM
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Just added the links to the two airports. Still have no clou where to end up for climbing though. Hope we find the crags... :shock:
- Daniel
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heiko
Apr 28, 2006, 1:44 PM
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Hey guys, I wish you all a fantastic climbing weekend!
See you next Tuesday. :)
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happyfra
May 1, 2006, 9:06 AM
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In reply to: Guys, what a f* country am I living in??? Today's a holiday here, and I'm not kidding, but getting a friggin Croissant and a coffee was a quest!!! I'm living in the CITY CENTRE gddmmt! Every single one of the ~10 bars between my house and my office outside of town was CLOSED. So were the two bars near the office. I had to drive 5km to another village to get food! What am I supposed to do for lunch??? Drive to friggin Austria??? :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: Could someone please come and move this country from the 19th to the 21th century ???
Sooooo selfish of you!! It is holiday, why do you think people should work for your breakfast? This is not how things work here!
Enjoy funny Italy!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
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tisar
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Hey there!
Hope you had some fine days in the sun!
I really wanted to get out, but the weather gods played foul. Besides a little bouldering session yesterday it was all too wet :evil: I couldn't even take advantage of my new hip-style, all-metrosexual, old-shool 50ties-Hawaiian, surfer-pattern chalkbag:
http://www.metoliusclimbing.com/comp_blu_hawaiian.jpg
Only flaw: It does not match the colors of the quickdraws...
News of the day: Revolution still didn't take place in Berlin, though Kreuzberg's left wing marched around the Mariannenplatz for the I-don't-know-how-many-eth time. What a shame.
Have a short week!
- Daniel
(Rereading the post I really get the impression 3 hours of sleep are not enough to recharge the batteries of my brain. Oh my!)
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heiko
May 2, 2006, 8:03 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: rant_about_closed_shops Sooooo selfish of you!! It is holiday, why do you think people should work for your breakfast? This is not how things work here! Enjoy funny Italy!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
Hey happyfra, I have to correct my statements about the country in general. I just found out that it must be the Trentino region... just returned from Liguria where it was no problem to get breakfast on a holiday. :D
People here obviously are just so rich that they can afford to open their shops only when they're in the right mood. :shock: ;)
Anyway... I just spent three awesome days in Finale Ligure with bellaitalia and six ( :!: :shock: ) American teachers. Here's a few phrases that I came up with to promote Finale:
Bored of the 5-minute approaches in Arco? Come to Finale Ligure! Practice bush-whacking on a 3-hour adventure hike through Ligurian rainforest. (Rapelling and scratching up arms and legs included).
Bored by the soft ratings in the rest of Europe? Come to Finale Ligure! Get your @ss kicked on overhung 5c's with a high first bolt and the hardest 6a slabs you've ever climbed. (Learn to spell c-h-e-e-s-e g-r-a-t-e-r ).
Bored of finger-friendly slopers? Come to Finale Ligure! Experience a whole new meaning of the term "don't fall" when you have two fingers jammed in a pocket with razor-sharp edges. On-sighting guaranteed! (Who needs ten fingers anyway).
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Anyway, dirtbagging it for three days in the woods was awesome, the climbs were hard, and we had Joel the incredible ropegun with us.
Life was good!
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May 2, 2006, 8:10 AM
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chrtur
May 2, 2006, 8:16 AM
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Million dollar question:
Who did we see in the bushes on Sunday..... :lol:
http://spinphys.org/heiko.jpg
PS. Why dont you ask me about the way? :lol:
We also had a 2 1/2 hours hike on Saturday in the moutains outside Torino to find the climbing place. At some point we looked at the altitude meter and it was showing 1800m, though the climbing place was supposed to be at 1200 m.... :oops:
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heiko
May 2, 2006, 2:34 PM
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I wonder what's wrong with the rest of the gang. :?
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uasunflower
May 2, 2006, 3:37 PM
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hmm finale looks pretty good to me, heiko, or is complaining your second nature too (it's my first) :lol:? Any other pics out there?
Chrtur - any news for the first june w-end? you were also once mentionning doing smth on Aguille Dibona? Any interest left for that?
i think GD is enjoying in silence her callanques memories - and that's very selfish of her! Only pictures can prove the deeds!
As for me, i had a rather sucky and cold w-end in freyer, failed again on my last year's project (for the 15th time or smth), played all possible head games with myself and then finally wasn't even able to lead a couple of routes i've already onsighted last year. Will just write it all off on cold, lack of good food, good beer, good...(that's the complaining nature at its best there...) I just need to get to warmer and higher places, that's all!
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happyfra
May 2, 2006, 8:16 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: rant_about_closed_shops Sooooo selfish of you!! It is holiday, why do you think people should work for your breakfast? This is not how things work here! Enjoy funny Italy!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: Hey happyfra, I have to correct my statements about the country in general. I just found out that it must be the Trentino region... just returned from Liguria where it was no problem to get breakfast on a holiday. :D People here obviously are just so rich that they can afford to open their shops only when they're in the right mood. :shock: ;) Anyway... I just spent three awesome days in Finale Ligure with bellaitalia and six ( :!: :shock: ) American teachers. Here's a few phrases that I came up with to promote Finale: Bored of the 5-minute approaches in Arco? Come to Finale Ligure! Practice bush-whacking on a 3-hour adventure hike through Ligurian rainforest. (Rapelling and scratching up arms and legs included). Bored by the soft ratings in the rest of Europe? Come to Finale Ligure! Get your @ss kicked on overhung 5c's with a high first bolt and the hardest 6a slabs you've ever climbed. (Learn to spell c-h-e-e-s-e g-r-a-t-e-r ). Bored of finger-friendly slopers? Come to Finale Ligure! Experience a whole new meaning of the term "don't fall" when you have two fingers jammed in a pocket with razor-sharp edges. On-sighting guaranteed! (Who needs ten fingers anyway). ;) Anyway, dirtbagging it for three days in the woods was awesome, the climbs were hard, and we had Joel the incredible ropegun with us. Life was good!
Come on! First of all, people from Liguria are well known to be the most unpleasent and unpolite guests in the world: they do serve turists, but always as if they were making you a favour.
And then, if you cannot find your way in friendly Finale and get lost in the short walks to get to the crags...
I will concede that grades in Finale tend not to be on the soft side, but even that, some months ago I got scolded quite roughly just here on RC.com because I mentioned that France is in general softer than Finale.
Finally, I am just envious because you had three days there with my favourite climbing mate bellaitalia!!! :(
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heiko
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In reply to: And then, if you cannot find your way in friendly Finale and get lost in the short walks to get to the crags...
It wasn't ENTIRELY my fault I would like to add... :lol: (I guess you can't expect too much route finding skills from a blonde that blocks the middle lane on an empty highway at 90 km/h :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:)
In reply to: I will concede that grades in Finale tend not to be on the soft side, but even that, some months ago I got scolded quite roughly just here on RC.com because I mentioned that France is in general softer than Finale.
Don't know about France... I just had the impression that the grading in Finale was a bit unhomogeneous. On the one hand you have really stiff slab climbs with hard moves (for me...) on tiny holds rated something like 6a+, but then there are 7a's with huge holds that a 6b gym climber/boulderer could easily tick after a day of sorting out the moves (and taping his/her fingers).
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Hey Guys, as you know, Paolo and I were off in the Calanques with map and her crew this past weekend. You know when you have one of those trips that's just so special and fun and amazing... you feel like if you write about it too soon it will ruin it! Yeah, this was one of those trips! 8^)
The awesome crew:
map "the pint-sized powerhouse"
steiner "fresh fish"
martin "the Austrian rope-(machine)gun"
markus "Fancy-feet"
I won't say much more since Map has already started to write the TR. But it was FANTASTIC!! Couldn't have hoped for better weather, better company or nicer climbing. There should be a couple of pics in my profile shortly, and I'll add more with the TR.
Now, just trying to stay out of the rain and looking forward to Val di Mello! :D
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In reply to: In reply to: ... There should be a couple of pics in my profile shortly, and I'll add more with the TR... Ouch. The beauty of that place hurts. Reeeeally hurts...
These were the pics from Val di Mello that you've been looking at! :lol:
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