heart of the alps
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 8 Sep 2024 - 20:15I admit. I just wanted a catchy title here. Actually there are many hearts to the big Alps. Yet surely one of them is the Swiss canton of Uri where glaciers hang on sheer vertical walls of misty granite. Here the Rhône, Rhine, Aare and Reuss erupt near the Furka, Oberalpsee, Grimsel and Gotthard passes, as they're set on boundless lands downstream.
Pol enters the short but intense line of Tailormade in Burnot ( more photos of August)
It's warm outside. But here it's good. Bram crimps his way up to the dyno in Rien ne va plus.
Tom is getting close..
Skip or Clip (crosses with Rien ne va plus)
In Bomal, Nico sticks the crux moves of Jouissance non controlée
High in the icy sky
Submitted by margerita on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 - 07:02n/a
Glacier de Saleinaz
Holzerkante, a classic of Falkenfluh.
basler JURA
Submitted by margerita on Tue, 21 May 2024 - 22:05n/a
Weekend near Linz in Austria. On the way to puzzle through Nordwand's final flat crystal wall. Once we reach the top above the forest, the ruines of Prandegg reveal.
FRANKENJURA
Submitted by margerita on Tue, 14 May 2024 - 20:23n/a
Gummitwist mit dem Antichrist. Just us and the inhabitants of the forest.
Hermann Buhl. Liuba just stuck the right-hand catch. Now she continues a tricky sequence to two slopey microholds from where you have to make a committing long move. Magic if you stick it. ( one extra shot + three more April photos)
Jordi above the Meuse river, after a long and technical journey in Pull Marine.
Zygomar
Alpin (Easter in the Vulkaneifel)
Irrgarten
Alana strings together some engaging laybacks in L'Academique (mid March)
pais valencia
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 20:01...
The hills near Calles reveal a Roman aquaduct.
Two weeks ago Calles-village made international news by recording the warmest January temperatures that were ever recorded in Europe: 30.7°C, marking yet another extreme weather event. Back home, the following month of February becomes the darkest and warmest February to date.
Tom sends Trempoline.
HansDW warms up in Dansez sur moi
ciao ragni di lecco
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 4 Jan 2024 - 23:28...
Crow's rock
Niki drops out Le Cosmos whilst clipping
greetings from Modave
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 12 Oct 2023 - 22:16Flashback: It's June, we're plagued by heatwaves and Hans is passing by. We need a cool and breezy north face, so we revive our old Modave project and explore its mind-bending extensions. Time to see the fireflies popup at dark. Time to dance up through Modave's darkness..
manikia
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 1 Oct 2023 - 10:23Take a Greek product and look at the map that's probably printed on the package. Above Athens you'll see a long-stretching island. Often such drawings wrongly connect it to the land. Either way, some shape there will depict the large unnegligible island of Evia where I am now. Let's find world-class climbing in hidden canyons, sheltered from storm Elias.
escape to Chamonix
Submitted by margerita on Tue, 5 Sep 2023 - 23:04A weekend to Chamonix! Now high-season is over! Right? Turns out it's the busiest weekend of all. Streets are packed. And from every high-up window people lean out to catch a glance of the world's toughest trail athletes running the 171st kilometer, the last, of the painfully-steep UTMB. We go up into the wind and tradclimb to Le Brévent's top.
Wolf in Cap'taine Coeur de Miel
pink skies
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 30 Aug 2023 - 06:54Photos by sundown dingos.
mountains of legends
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 15 Aug 2023 - 18:59We made it deep into the spiky Dolomites where the Ladin tell their sagas. We learn of the Sciliar witches. The Pale Mountains. The mermaid of Lake Carezza. Or the Rëgn de Fanes. Meanwhile, in the background, hostile rock towers disappear into the clouds. If only these rocky peaks could talk. They'd tell of Dibona, Comici, Cassin, Varale and Piaz.
This stag-beetle feels at home in Flône's oak forest. She's probably not mad that an extremely wet July follows a record-breaking dry June.
Locally, the last five summers broke records, three of them with drought, two with rain. Statistically the Belgian summers became more variable, and on average 30% drier. Winters have become 30% more wet.
After an infernal series of low-percentage moves, Liuba escapes Tribut Croquettes' merciless overhang
( two shots of the workout before)
Monkey See, Monkey Do towering up Bois de Mâle Plume
We heelhook our way through Toothless on a hot evening
lands of the banana slug
Submitted by margerita on Mon, 29 May 2023 - 14:32I was going to call this story land of the bears... but we didn't see one. In the coastal rainforests of the Klamath mountains our furry fellas stayed as much a myth as the old Sasquatch. But where do you start to look? We're surrounded by dinosauric ferns. Tall ancient trees bend over us. And, inland, strange rocks emerge in the Trinity subrange..
end of the road
Submitted by margerita on Sat, 20 May 2023 - 18:15Bye San Francisco! Adios Monterey! Adieu Pacific Coast! I race across the agro-industrial sordidity that fills the San Joaquin valley, until the first foothills of the Sierra Nevada bring salvation. They will lead to Yosemite with the whitest of snow, pierced by black burned oldgrowth. Then we'll drive around the snowy range and start into the East Sierra.
Nico fights his way up the aforementioned line
Jordi puts the puzzle pieces together in Gincobiloba
Dave seconds Ligne de Fuite on Easter (Notice yellow flowers of buckler-mustard, a plant of the high mountains. In the Benelux it has its last refuge on the rocks around Freyr and Comblain.)
Rocher Amont's three obscure slabs
Pigeons and starlings
The promise of clouds brings us to Racó de les Espadelles. We pass Jorge Diaz-Rullo cruising in Moriarty and now we walk under True Hero.
HDW scales Mélanine's dolomite, a line overlooked by topos and registers
Around christmas the day had started all white and spikey with ice caps on the river. Simon and me both send our project on Al'lègne. (Picture of Cool Cat Flo)
pomegranate garden of eden
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 15 December 2022 - 20:06The world below has been growing bright red like a dying fire. The glow reaches beyond the horizon. Then a mean sharp-edged blackness crops up. We seem to close in on land. We cross over it and enter complete darkness.. 'till orangey dots will light up and curve onwards into the unknown. Once named Lycia by vanished people we'll soon call it Eden.
the kalympics
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 30 November 2022 - 21:14Olympians make a mythical effort to do what humans are said they cannot do. Their epic name suggests their feats might even be worthy a glance of the gods inhabiting Mount Olympos. The Kalympian on the other hand hopes the gods aren't watching too much, just to skip the embarrassing struggle with banana-addicted goats and old scooters.
Goatie above the Aegean sea
We started in Neuberg an der Mürz. The expedition now leads into Obersteiermark's Alps and we are about to find Konstante, the unbelievably ninja-defying vertical route that requires next-level sorcery.
Road to Atlantis
chillertal
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 9 Oct 2022 - 21:45
A horn of plenty, also known as black chanterelle or trumpet of the dead.
Gunnar speeds up in Les Tâches Rouges. The next rusty old-skool bolt is in sight.
Did it! A long time project has come to an end! That arch totally knocked me out of the field the first encounter. Today I finished this whacker. Lots of thanks to my beta buddies and belayer!
the crag in the sky
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 27 July 2022 - 00:18Darkness creeps. It's already been a long drive far from home. For a while now it's been going steeply up. Oh! First familiar forest creek ravines and then bosky pastures strike our eyes: Guérins is close! Soon we're barefeet! ..Worming into a tent under lime trees. Yes! At arrival, lights will flicker high beneath the dark sky. Tomorrow evening we'll shine.
Alpstein, Switzerland. If you look closely you can see rushes of chocolate streams splash over the hills.
misty mounties (weekends around zurich: a compilation)
Submitted by margerita on Fri, 17 June 2022 - 21:05Zürich's milk and honey lay behind. Steep valley flanks pierce through clouds and finally disappear into the misty sky. That's where the madness will begin, where rocks will move easier than us, horrified and perplexed guests of spiking granite blades. Be cautioned by our tales: Captain Salbit (autumn), Gastlove (spring), The White mountains and Alpstein.
Ground, grass and gravel silently crunch under our feet. Daylight begins to show itself confusedly through tangled overhanging growth. Huh?! I turn 'round. “Did I see something there in the shade?” Four eyes open and fix on me.
They were dozed on each other, but now they spring to life. Their paws stretch. Their rascal mode kicks in. ”Let’s check them out!”, they think. Yet they frantically avoid our touch as if our hands are on fire. Then the fluffballs scare up from a yellow-hammer bird that sings and skips from the clovers into the overgrowth.
We walk up some remnants of cobble stones, taken over by the verge of a forest. Our uninvited guests stroll along to lead us and play-catch each other. Sometimes one will wander off while his companion will remain our leader. But not for long.“Brother?!... Brother!.... I-iiii co-oooome back!..”
They alternate roles so both go out of breath multiple times, until eventually our path goes up for a while, then to drop sharply down into a bright and enclosed straight-walled mini quarry. This place must once have been carved out of an oak tree hill, like an abandoned rock palace out of the jungle.
While the sun moves up the sky, the brothers hang around and we climb with Romanian friends already here. By the afternoon the rascals sink into the old soft thick jacket, totally exhausted, no wonder: while turning our back from time to time we’ve seen them:
- explore the inside of a big unorderly pile of stones that leads to bushes;
- watch flappy things (butterflies, mostly the large wall brown);
- play games they probably never did before;
- catch the incredible sight of a mini-ghost (a mouse);
- and god knows what and how much more.
The purring duo even learned about these biped freaks that pet and stroke them. That’s obviously new to them.
By the early evening we gather our stuff and start our way out: steeply up again, then down for a while. Before we can do that, Mister Black – and his partner in crime – go from dreamy to up-and-ready in just seconds, to follow us once again, unasked for.
After a while we exit the forest and find several vague tracks come together at the sharp hairpin bend of an asphalt road. Here we leave our feline fellas who disappear into the verge of dark bushes and bright herbs. After a few steps away, we carefully look back and find they're checking out a brown cow that sits contently hidden in tall grasses and the shadow of an elderberry bush.
We hope to ask a nearby farmer if he knows something about these two. We think we’ve tiptoed away unnoticed but when we look around, 50m back, they solemnly sit next to each other at the edge of the road again. And they peer straight at us. We can tell their eyes follow every one of our next steps.
The asphalt brings us to the farm where a horse and chickens stroll about. We hear a busy noise in the barn. “Heyy.. Bonsoir! We came across two kittens. Are they yours? Or do they belong somewhere around here?” The busy farmer — as amused as confident — flings back a gesture that they can come from anywhere, belong anywhere, do as they please. “They're cats!”.
Another plan then for these 80-something-day-olds…
Pumpgun. Godly moves up the basaltic depths of Mordor ( May).
Hannah Meul in Hermann Buhl
Borderline
Now following the trails here. Tomorrow up the Molignée valley to face the killer cows and make it once again to the legends-eating mortals-unfriendly projie..
The first 'field cow-wheat' of the year. In Wallonia the flower abide on just several unique limestone rocks that are the last places that have remained undisturbed since at least the ice ages.
Daan joins me for Le Triangle du Diable (multipitch) in dim street lights
Liesbeth climbs Kaweechelchen (Luxembourgish for squirrel) above a luxuriously blossoming whitebeam tree
Bennie around Easter in The Walk of Life (extension), an unbelievable line in the Waldviertel near Wachau (known for the 30.000 year-old Venus of Willendorf).
Alana halfway. Soon Le Cathedral is beaming yellow with spring cinquefoil.
off with no propeller
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 20 March 2022 - 10:04The birds are back. (photos)
To Grotta Pineta
A bitter almond tree, and if you find him a less bitter Smokey in Truffatore.
santu vitu
Submitted by margerita on Tue, 22 February 2022 - 20:01Il Don viennese made me an offer I can't refuse. I came to Palermo and then followed the coast, passed Castellammare Del Golfo and continued to the infamous Capo. I immediately got hooked on the orange stuff, needed more and soon I was broken, a dead man walking, still lobbying for another crag although it was killing me.
Les Mots Bleus
Broke into the secluded green hills on a pilgrimage to Makinodromo's Lourdes
tales of freyr
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 8 December 2021 - 23:06
Liuba cleans La legge delle chiodande (='The Law of Closure') after onsighting. It features far sideway moves between tufas and a few parts where holds are missing. Alex Honnold climbs it a few days later. In the back you see the uninhabited lands crossed by the Selvaggio Blu adventure trek.
pecorino power
Submitted by margerita on Mon, 15 November 2021 - 18:04Popeye eats spinach and it makes him ridiculously strong. But we all know that's just a cartoon on television. If you really want to get silly strong then you got to have this soft fresh Pecorino from the grocery store at the gate in Ulassai, a village of centenarians on Sardinia. It's sweet, not expensive and better than anything you'll get at the pharmacy.
Di Fissure ( 3 photos below).
 
 
Yellow submarine
The final. Time for Daïwel (Luxembourgish for devil). Time for the diabolic end dyno (just out of frame).
Kobi Wan Kenobi on an afterwork evening session
Barbara in Animals drums solo
Daan gets ready for another technical line in Burnot
Freyr
Phil going for Sabotage in Dave
Hans in Platons Insel on the Atlantis rock in Höllental, Rax-Schneeberg, high above the Schwarza flow, while the fireflies sleep to get ready for their party. ( seven summer photos above)
Petit Dru (lines) - (1985 reconstruction of Profit's 1982 solo of the American direct) ( 3 photos).
The Goulotte Perroux-Profit brings onto the Arête des Cosmiques. Two alpinists navigate the ridge when a chough (black red-feeted bird) dives by.
Something wicked this way comes. We hiked up to Montenvers. Once upon a time you could touch the Mer de Glace there. In 1825 the ice filled the 360m deep valley. In 1995 it had retreated to 245m. Today in 2021 the remaining ice is 90m thick. There's something metaphorical to the speed of this glacier's retreat.
we stand on the shoulders of giants
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 2 June 2021 - 22:03
-THE OLD ALPINE
--.TESTAMENT &
THE PROPHETS OF
-FREE CLIMBING...
Green mountains all stumble atop each other. Cascade hosts the evening sun. We come from the shade where Stefano Ghisolfi has his first encounter with Bibliographie.
mount aiguille from chichilianne
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 30 May 2021 - 18:49...
la douc(h)e france
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 30 May 2021 - 17:46After the sunflowers of Burgundy, we'll eat baguette in the rain; we'll cut the pastèque on a voyage through mountains and lakes of the Dauphiné; we'll live in the Baronnies and we'll hike up Mt Ventoux to come back down in narrow streets that are more than 1000 years old. Then we'll buy cherries from a farmer and enter the canyons of the Lubéron.
Monkey see, Monkey do, funky continuous classic opened by 't Kint, with on the left Lumumba, route named after the African anti-imperialist activist who was assassinated in 1961 by peace-askewing decadent power cravers made powerful by Belgian authorities vulturing for Katanga's natural resources.
Sophie on her way to send, sneaking up the crux of Gonzo the Great, a personal milestone route for me four years ago. I vaguely remember gasping for air, standing on edges smaller than I ever dared to rely on, taking long unexpected falls, like never before, and coming back multiple sessions to what had felt like a subtle unforgiving testpiece, an impossible one, on first encounter.
Sweat ( 4 Mozet photos above).
 
Wanterbaach welness
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 7 April 2021 - 07:50Aga in Phenix  ( 8 photos).
ice climbing
Submitted by margerita on Sat, 13 February 2021 - 13:10
Into Condroz, onto the bright path, the forbidden track
Tautavel
Submitted by margerita on Sat, 30 December 2020 - 18:52
Up with the last light in La Grande Cheminée
Ben climbs Monte Oro (Our Handsome Friend Pavel).
please holds be jugs
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 8 October 2020 - 23:03n/a atm
Afterwork session (the projie)
Water solo home with Ramses, Tom and Dave.
 
Schools impose on Western kids a view on the world, reduced to giant-ass pixels the size of nations. Rivers can be an alternative basis to build spatial knowledge on.
Notice the Tagliamento river, the last Alps river of which the course has not been strained yet.
Geum Reptans above an ice lake where we saw a big old trout.. Fish are imported in high alpine lakes for sport fishing, they can't reproduce here, nonetheless they threaten local ecology (scientific article).
 
Ailefroide (say: L-fwraa-du)
Submitted by margerita on Mon, 3 August 2020 - 21:11Alpes — the whites — Romans said of the snow-capped wall of mountains. Brightness obscures all detail of the dazzling colors of insects, foxes, lynxes and orchids. In current societal fevers' heatwaves, the Alps provide shadow. Off highways we tread babysteps to where all becomes bigger (or we become smaller) like Alice tiptoeing into Wonderland.
Lockdown in Luxembourg
Vertical free solo limit
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 29 April 2020 - 19:10For our sponsor we looked for a sensational adventure.
January mist, wet streets and rainforest. Yet Pull Marine's blank wall is in good condition. We top out.
Sharp and subtle Brodo di Calzini
Somewhere Monte Sordo
for a few climbs more (per qualche arrampicate in piu')
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 8 January 2020 - 20:15Like true Ligurians we're packed with sweets. Let's find these legendary rocks! Bye steep empire of thick-leaved evergreens! Here we come Finale Ligure, hidden somewhere down where medieval buildings (Finalborgo) squeeze through the valley to reach the sea (Finalmarina). Really, only the sea never hides in the rocky Piedmont foothills.
Die Ringbolzen des Nibelungen
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 14 November 2019 - 07:01Well after sundown we escape steep rocky slopes, out of the grip of beech trees, oaks and quartzite rock monsters. Southeastwards we will continue to follow that bustling blue vein down there, boding its chain of prominent cities from where we'll push through to the lands of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre and set foot in Odenwald's hills.
Ballerina slab Kurz und Knackig on home grounds
Wim lays his eyes on Altmeisterschreck (oldschooler's nightmare)
Toothless at the collapsed (= by 20th-century mine industry destroyed) Grottes Schmerling. In 1829 Schmerling made the first and northernmost find of a Neanderthal. The remains were accompanied by Homo Sapiens fossils, marking the second acknowledged find ever of an old Homo fossil and the start of paleontology.
ABC to get your climbing master's degree
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 15 October 2019 - 22:10Stop fighting the gravity of wisdom and let climbing knowledge come to you.
Hannes
Koen and Tom, Luxembourg
Font
Cave uprising
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 4 July 2019 - 23:45'Roof works co.’ tries to escape apocalyptic scenes. The company flees to the heart of climbing valhalla Condroz, where the south of Belgium is said to be gentle. But la douce Belgique is reckoned without Modave’s cave. Guided by the lights of fireflies they'll be fighting on arrival, struggling for survival.
Fran climbs Fränzi in Luxembourg
Shine bright like a dino
Submitted by margerita on Mon, 3 June 2019 - 21:17The sinking sun colors her own path through the beech trees. All of a sudden two cars slam on the brakes as two deer walk over. We are about to set foot in a vivid village, shining like it's just been built. Indeed, we don't know where to look first, as we're drawn to a lush garden. Come along west of the Rhine along the verge of Pfalz and Vosges...
Siudrama
Submitted by margerita on Fri, 17 May 2019 - 19:10
Us three return to the near-desert. Limestone cliffs turn into extraterrestrial monuments. Incontainable become the chunks of abandoned spaceship motherboards, devoured by all that grows. Today’s the day. Weeks into the infamous season — stonemeltingly hot! desolate! — we find abandoned Siurana reigned by cool sweeping breezes. We foresaw.
Sam going for the last funky move to finish off this vertical battle
The Oregon Monster in La muerte del Sponsor
Ben and Hans in El Prado del Rey with the chalked holds of Negociée in the background
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 2 May 2019 - 12:04
Fabi in Pathos
Submitted by margerita on Fri, 1 March 2019 - 23:05
..
Ice climbing in Belgium
Hans DW
Hoa at Haut-Barr
Hans high up in the second crux of Aeroplane Klaxon, ready to link into Mona Lisa's climaxing difficulties (opened in 1985 by Arnould 't Kint).
Right of this line there is Boulevard du Vol which Arnould t'Kint finds and eventually frees in 1983*, with no difficulty grade yet to express the impossibility of what he's done. At that moment the elusive French 8th grade has yet to become considered a possible new level that is also discovered by Wolfgang Güllich (Pfalz/Altmühltal/Frankenjura-..), Jerry Moffatt (Wales), Patrick Edlinger (Buoux), Antoine Le Menestrel (Saussois), Luisa Jovane (Arco/Dolomites), Catherine Destivelle (Buoux) and several others. (*Some sources mention 1981 but a CAB interview with Arnould confirms 1983.)
Jeunesse
gorges du Verdon & du loup
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 17 October 2018 - 22:03In Berdorf I belay Ben in his projects. And Ben belays me in mine. We achieve memorable milestone sends. Time to team up for multipitches? We refresh our multipitch skills in Freyr before we drive to the windy canyons of legends where we become little dots on a heavenly wall.
Stefan in the beginning of Glucose
Mission Dibona
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 26 September 2018 - 23:08I open my work agenda. A lot of colored days are coming up. DIBONA BRAM they say.. Aha, the plan we made last winter: celebrating Bram’s research (in Paris, being awarded a PhD) with a roadtrip into France with the elusive, high and pointy cherry on top: Dibona.
Hans hides for the sun in the north facing Donkey Kong (Grottes Schmerling).
Les Quatre Cents Buts... (French film (1959) and slang for The Four Hundred Goes)
La Dalle Oublié
Thiebout tries to figure out Borderline near Berdorf (with an incredible send some time later)
Smögen, Kungshamn
Granitbiten at Skälefjäll
The long awaited Chamonix trip
Submitted by margerita on Tue, 5 June 2018 - 17:22
Grotte du Brotsch
Veni, sendi, vici in the Modave trilogy
Three lizards
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 6 May 2018 - 01:20
Triumph
Jardin Secret trilogy finale with Hans
Report Initiations
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 29 March 2018 - 17:18LUAK Trophy’s flame passed on with the assistance of Liuba, which means the semester is off! So soon one thursday evening in the dark wintery streets of Leuven, at LUAK's headquarters, a light burns and lost Existenz-architects stumble in and find us stuffing the KULeuven van with the settenbakken. So the story begins, a tale of rock initiations.
Apocalypse snow!
Submitted by margerita on Sun, 18 February 2018 - 00:07Top Italia Arrampicata... Or: LUAK's Wintermeet goes ice climbing in Cogne and Lillaz, hidden in the Aosta valley.
Hans
Pieter
Calanques
Submitted by margerita on Fri, 22 September 2017 - 21:48Ever yearned for a thrilling climbing chronicle unfolding above the azure blue Calanques? Sigh no more! Especially for you dear readers, fanciers of fancily written reports, I will decently typ here in the utmost strive of eloquence my very own clearly written, yes, with delicate care presented, link to Wim's Calanques report. Others can click above.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chill a l'aise met de ijsvijs
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 10 August 2017 - 12:18Ge hebt interesse in een alpiene startstage die u een basiszelfstandigheid geeft. Ge stelt het uit. En dan moogt ge telkens passen als een paar mensen een zot alpien plan hebben of een speciale multipitch weten maar met gletsjeraanloop en moordlustige seracs. Doe maar zo'n stage (of andere stevige introductie).
 
 
f*ck berge tenzij blankenberge
Submitted by margerita on Fri, 28 July 2017 - 15:14Het is alweer enkele jaren geleden dat de Summermeet naar een alpiene bestemming trok. Nu is het zover: Chamonix. Dit jaar hebben we het KUL-buske, en nog goed lang zelfs, dus we rijden eerst naar La Berarde. We blijken niet alleen. (Fotoverslagje)
First april days with Sebastian (in Mike), Gabriëlle, Naomi and Brecht
Coldfingerweekend
Submitted by margerita on Mon, 20 March 2017 - 16:32Voor dag en dauw, als licht al aanbleekt op het lover, ga ik op pad. Ik weet wel dat jij op mij wacht. Ik trek de bossen door en trek de bergen over, ik heb te vaak ver van jou mijn dagen doorgebracht.
Kobe
Costa Blanca
Submitted by margerita on Fri, 17 February 2017 - 16:06We zijn goed op weg in de winter. De lesvrije week komt. We kiezen voor goedkope snelle vluchten, in ruime zetels, tussen bruingeschminkte glitterende bomma's. Jawel. Richting Benidorm. (delen I-VI + gsmfoto’s)
Professor Ivan and Pieter in Une saison en enfer, (re)bolted a few months ago by Flo and Félix.
Find Dave
Ailefroide
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 28 July 2016 - 11:59Schapenwolkjes leken klimgrepen en een bende was al in Frankrijk rond Grenoble en Briançon. Ik moest tot dan werken. Mabon, toen wisten we het. Mijn auto werd gevuld als de kolenkachel van een stoomtrein, de koffer werd volgepuzzeld: koffer dicht.
Niels toont Marie Rose
trad bij de fransen
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 28 April 2016 - 11:22EIKEBAH BOORHAKEN.. zeiden we... knuffelend met een paar sets nuts en friends. Het was tijd voor graniet en barsten. En laat de Zuid-Vogezen nu net op maar 1,2 Fontainebleau van Leuven zijn. Fotoverslag van een dik verlengd weekend:
Nneka ( photo below).
 
coldfingerweekend
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 16 March 2016 - 13:32Leuven. We're on the eve of spring. It's sunny, friday and late. Students, back from class/working/PhD/.., have packed in two vans and a car. Tasks are divided. Driver, music maestro, midfingermanager, co-pilot, window orchestrator.. LUAK’s coldfingerweekend is about to begin.
El Chorro
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 11 February 2016 - 13:11De lesvrije week is nog niet eens begonnen of een vliegtuig Zaventem-Malaga vertrekt in het holst van de nacht. Diezelfde dag nog, 's avonds, bolt een auto over bergflanken El Chorro binnen. Het zal nog ff duren voor we tegoei beseffen wat er allemaal gebeurd is. (lang verslag)
End of Hungaria
coldfingerweekend
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 18 November 2015 - 10:34(pandemonium, iemand een echt verslag?)
verslag initiaties
Submitted by margerita on Wed, 21 October 2015 - 18:34(in afwachting van verslagen van La Douce France hoorde ik)
verslag Arco
Submitted by margerita on Thu, 30 July 2015 - 09:44Zwoele zomeravond. Fish are jumping out. Aankomst Arco. Na La Bérarde is er een tweede summermeet. Handig voor wie de eerste ook moest skippen wegens andere dringende trip. Ik voeg me bij de cordée van Alessio, Hannes en Wannes. Drie is geen getal om mee te zijn.
Open the door and Bilbo jumps in