tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87200555139454144472024-03-13T16:17:30.945+01:00austrianalpine.cominformation, ideas, conditions and perspectives on alpinism, climbing & ski mountaineering (photo: Schareck North Face, Hohe Tauern National Park, Salzburg, Austria)Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-17703858831337177022020-05-16T10:39:00.000+02:002020-05-16T12:00:23.247+02:00Benchmark Training Route: Untersberg East Face (Ostgrat, "Laterndl", III-(5.3)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I could sneak in this climb as Salzburg was coming out of the coronavirus quarantine and just before a good week-long low pressure system moved in with damp, rainy weather. The east ridge route on the Untersberg (going from left to right on the photo), Salzburg's local mountain, is a well known alpine scramble and a "must do" for any local alpine climber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The route is very well known to me. It is one of the 10 or 12 routes within a short distance from my Salzburg home that I use as a alpine endurance and sport specific training route throughout the year. In the most recent five or so years, I have usually been in Greece during April and May climbing on Kalymnos. Like everything else in the world, 2020 -- in the year of COVID-19 -- everything is different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, in the late spring, needing to get back in shape, I did the east ridge on the Untersberg fresh out of quarantine. As an alpine training route the full tour has about 1100m of approach and 300m of scrambling on chossy limestone. The more 'technical' parts are rated at UIAA III--. At the end of April into the start of May, the approach finishes with a steep snow slope and short gully at about 40°.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did the majority of the hike to the snow slopes in my approach shoes. I changed over to a pair of light weight, fully crampon compatible, mountaineering boots once on the snow slopes. I used my light-weight hiking poles and had light, alpine crampons (half steel / half aluminium) that stayed in my pack. Mountaineering boots and poles are indispensable for the 150-200m to steep snow. The crampons are insurance. All is essential for doing this route in spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to climb the route in the stiff-soled mountaineering boots for the training benefits. The first two pitches that get you to the ridge proper are the crux of the climbing. It is a bit awkward climbing and made insecure by the rock quality. They belay stances are usually equipped with single, oversized U-shaped bolts and there are some expansion bolts and various pitons. In spring, alpine rock routes have come through the winter continuous freeze-thaw cycles. Nobody has most likely climbed the route since the past autumn. You have to assume that everything is potentially loose and untrustworthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A benchmark training route is one that I can repeatedly return to and use to evaluate all the elements of skill, stamina, nutrition, equipment, etc., as I make small tweaks and adjustments in my quest to improve. The route serves as a yardstick to measure myself. The feeling and emotional sense while doing standard training routes gives me insight into answering the question of whether or not I am ready for a particular bigger objective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gear for the outing: approach shoes, 30m single strand half/twin rope, minimal Blue Ice harness, one alpine quick draw, one HMS carabiner, one small locking carabiner, light-weight Petzl crampons, first-aid with headlamp, helmet, one liter electrolyte drink, sunglasses, very small multitool, wind shirt, light-weight Arcteryx puffy, Scarpa 'Rebel' mountaineering boots, Z-type hiking poles (not pictured), Buff-type headwater, cap, backpack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I said, I know this route very well including what is already in the rock -- bolts and fixed gear -- so what I take is very minimal and is carried for any kind of emergency situation. Perhaps the conditions are different than what I expect, really wet for example. Or It could be that my mental condition is not up to the challenges for some reason. Regardless, I want to make sure I can enact plan "B," "C" or "D" if needed.</span></div>
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Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-76882974970799023462020-04-29T16:46:00.001+02:002020-04-29T16:46:43.717+02:00Canadian Rockies Ice March 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In March of 2020 I had one last day to climb in the Canadian Rockies. I soloed the moderate classic route "The Professor Falls" near Banff. In the short videos I speak about some technical aspects of gear and mental aspects of soloing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The approach to the climb was about an hour of flat walking. The majority of the approach is on asphalt roads that go through a golf course (which is closed in the winter). Many climbers choose to use mountain bikes to make the approach a bit faster. Once you leave the golf course, you walk along the Bow River through the woods and passing under the famous "Trophy Wall" that holds the landmark climbs "The Replicant", "The Terminator" and "Sea of Vapours". It was comfortably cold with clearing clouds that had deposited about 10cm of new snow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am using the current edition of Petzl's "Nomic" ice tools. I girth hitch the tethers through the slots in the handles as these points are stronger than the holes in the spike of the tools. First you can girth hitch the tool handles then girth hitch the other end of the tether through the belay loop on your harness by bringing the lower attachment loop over the pick and head of the tool. Now you have attached the tools directly to your harness without any carabiners or swivels that may form a weak link in your system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialling in your equipment and systems is vitally important in all forms of ice and mixed climbing. The quality and performance of your equipment and material makes a huge difference in your both your level of climbing and safety. I started using Petzl "Laser Light" aluminium ice screws two seasons ago. The screws are very fast to place because they bite very aggressively in the ice. When there is a higher level of water in the ice, the screws can be 'sticky' and hard to turn. The best way to deal with this is to back the screw out a half turn or so and then spin the screw in. The weight of the screws are noticeably lighter on your harness. Most advantageous is the fact that you can place the screws in pre-existing holes from steel ice screws. The tubes of the aluminium screws are larger in diameter and the threads will set securely in a pre-existing hole from a steel ice screw.</span></div>
Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-76307056968720090382019-01-05T19:35:00.000+01:002019-01-05T20:13:11.221+01:00Seasonal Shift In Climbing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I returned to Austria in the second week of November. I took a bit of time "off" and did some unstructured training that was mostly fun climbing at the alpine crag at Barmstein above Hallein. I love Barmstein, especially after being on Kalymnos for the season. Barmstein is such a great home crag - hard climbing, sparsely bolted, trad lines, multi-pitch climbs - the crag has it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Salzburg area had some excellent autumn weather in November. Sometimes a bit frosty in the early morning, yet nonetheless warm enough to climb in the sun on the west facing side of Barmstein by 11:00 or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The yard boss, Mimi is an exceptional climber. She prefers to stay on the farm and do her circuits where she can keep an eye on the mice and chickens running around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The short days of November and early December come around and force us climbers to go indoors to the plastic. It is kind of a purgatory to be endured at the worst of times and never taken too seriously all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually the snow comes to you or you go to it. If you're fortunate, you may be the first one to glide through it in the immense stillness. Walking meditation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then the rain comes, or it gets warm, and you are consigned to train on plastic because it serves the purpose. Putting in your time on the indoor walls always dreaming of ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ice. Thankfully, it still shows up. Thin slabs, delicate icicles, hollow tubes. We take it anyway it comes, just grateful that it's there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the inevitable damp, warm weather makes only a brief appearance early in the ice season, the frozen waterfalls will stay around. And, like people who weather other types of stressors, the ice perseveres, grows and becomes stronger. If your icy friend is well situated, you can bring some of your other new and old friends and make an introduction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, climbing the multitude of frozen structures is an intensely personal and individual pursuit. Interacting with the medium. Climbing meditation.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-11640674765938014622018-12-20T18:52:00.000+01:002018-12-20T19:12:27.016+01:00Off-Piste Skiing Additional Course Dates & Avalanche Update from Michael Lacher<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This winter season, my single day off-piste skiing technique courses are very popular. The two sessions have been fully booked since they were advertised through the Salzburg Section of the Austrian Alpenverein at the start of December.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This past weekend, Saturday 15. December 2018, I had a group of seven skiers and then on the following Sunday, 16. December 2018 a day for participants on the waiting list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next scheduled off-piste skiing course is Saturday, 19. January 2019. The course is already fully booked. However, I have two additional days scheduled:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am planning on skiing with the participants in Obertauern as long as the weather and conditions allow. There are spaces still available for the two dates in February. The cost is €40,-- per participant with a minimum of four participants. (6 is the maximum.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's an overview of what I am doing this winter and spring for the Alpine Ausbildung Program for the Salzburg Alpenverein and some other stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The off-piste ski </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">technique courses seem to be very popular and I have had to add some extra dates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There may be a few new things coming as well. I am thinking about a Freeride Ski Course in the spring in Hintertux and perhaps a ski mountaineering group too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">sicher fahren auf der Piste</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.alpenverein-salzburg.at/Ausbildung/Klettern/Eisklettern-Grundkurs/e_gk_2_18">AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildung</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So., 16.12.2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">sicher fahren auf der Piste</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">zusätzlicher Termin für Personen auf der Warteliste und neue Anmeldungen</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Fr., 28.-So., 30.12.2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">€150,—</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Klettern Grundkenntnis & Kameraden Sicherung in Top Rope / Vorstieg</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.alpenverein-salzburg.at/Ausbildung/Klettern/Eisklettern-Grundkurs">AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildung</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">mindestens 3 Teilnehmer nötig bis maximal 5 Teilnehmer</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Eisklettern Fortgeschritten</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Mi., 02.-Fr., 04.01.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">€200,—</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Eisklettern Grundkurs</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.alpenverein-salzburg.at/Ausbildung/Klettern/Eisklettern-Fortgeschrittene">AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildung</a></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #efefef; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 59.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 72.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">mindestens 3 Teilnehmer nötig bis maximal 5 Teilnehmer</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Schitechnik im Gelände</b></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: white; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 23.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 83.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">sicher fahren auf der Piste</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">ausgebucht</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">nur Warteliste</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>AV-Sektion Großramming Eiskletterkurs</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do., 24.-So., 27.02.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">€180,—</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Klettern Grundkenntnis & Kameraden Sicherung Top-Rope / Vorstieg</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:fratiannijoe@gmail.com">Joe Fratianni</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:martin.aigner@aigs.org">Martin Aigner</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">AV-Sektion Großramming</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">geschlossene Gruppe nur für AV-Sektion Großramming</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Schitechnik im Gelände</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Fr., 01.02.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">€40,—</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">sicher fahren auf der Piste</span></div>
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<td style="background-color: white; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 71.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 71.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:fratiannijoe@gmail.com">Joe Fratianni</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">zusätzlicher Termin für Personen auf der Warteliste und neue Anmeldungen</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Schitechnik im Gelände</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So., 03.02.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">€40,—</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">sicher fahren auf der Piste</span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #efefef; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 71.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 71.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:fratiannijoe@gmail.com">Joe Fratianni</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">zusätzlicher Termin für Personen auf der Warteliste und neue Anmeldungen</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Eisklettern Training Gruppe</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Zeitraum: So., 17.-Sa., 23.02.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">abhängig von Teilnehmer-zahl und Tage, bitte bei Interesse direkt Kontakt aufnehmen</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">absolviert AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildung Eisklettern Grund- und Fortgeschrittenen Kurse, oder ähnliche Erfahrung</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:fratiannijoe@gmail.com">Joe Fratianni</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">nur mit Erlaubnis des Kursleiters, maximum 3 Teilnehmer</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Schi- bergsteigen & Alpine Eis Training Gruppe</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Zeitraum: So., 24.02-Sa., 02.03.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">abhängig von Teilnehmer-zahl und Tage, bitte bei Interesse direkt Kontakt aufnehmen</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">absolviert AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildung Schitouren Grund- und Fortgeschrittenen Kurse, Stop or Go + Notfall Lawine</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:fratiannijoe@gmail.com">Joe Fratianni</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">nur mit Erlaubnis des Kursleiters, maximum 4 Teilnehmer</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Fr. (Abend),-So.,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">15.-17.03.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">€120,—</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.alpenverein-salzburg.at/Ausbildung/Schitouren/Schitour-Fortgeschritten">AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildung</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Schihochtouren: Westalpen Durchquerung</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Zeitraum: Do., 28.03.-So., 07.04.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">abhängig von Teilnehmer-zahl und Tage, bitte bei Interesse direkt Kontakt aufnehmen</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">absolviert AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildung Schitouren Grund- und Fortgeschrittenen Kurse, Stop or Go + Notfall Lawine, oder ähnliche Erfahrung</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:fratiannijoe@gmail.com">Joe Fratianni</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">nur mit Erlaubnis des Kursleiters, maximum 5 Teilnehmer</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Kalymnos Zeitplan 2019</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Ostern Klettern, Sa., 20.04 - So. 05.05.2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Klettersaison: 20.05.2019 bis Mitte November 2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Chamonix / Mont Blanc </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Alpine Eis & Mixed Training Gruppe plus Mont Blanc über “3 Monts” Route</span><br />
Zeitraum: Do., 26.09.-So., 06.10.2019</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, if there or any questions or if you need further information, just contact me by using the links provided or the contact form on the right.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-11257115407912397442018-04-09T12:01:00.000+02:002018-04-09T12:02:30.947+02:00Kalymnos 2018 Season: Programs & Info<b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.kalymnosprimalclimb.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Kalymnos</a> 2018</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b>I will start my season on Kalymnos on May 16, 2018. I will be on the island through the autumn, until the end of October or beginning of November.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">To get an overview of what's going on this year, go to <a href="http://www.kalymnosprimalclimb.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">www.kalymnosprimalclimb.com</a>. You can also find out more through my Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kalymnosprimalclimb/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">here</a>, or on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kalymnosprimalclimb/?hl=en" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Kalymnos Program Schedule 2018</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>PROGRAM</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>DATES</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Transitions in Outdoor Climbing</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Intensive three-day course for climbers with some experience</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Saturday, 19. May through Monday, 21. May 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€325,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of five participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Multi-Pitch Basic</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Beginning-level course for bolted, multi-pitch routes</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 24. May through Saturday, 26. May 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€325,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of three participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Multi-Pitch Supplement</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Intermediate rope skills: partner assistance, emergency retreat, double rope technique - complements the Multi-Pitch Basic Course</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Monday, 28. May through Tuesday, 29. May 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€225,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of three participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Climbing for Fitness & Longevity with Dr. Peter Battre</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Lifestyle climbing as primary means of fitness and health, nutrition, supplemental activities, medical consultation and evaluation</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 07. June through Tuesday, 12. June 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€750,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of five participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Primal Climb Interactive</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>with Dr. Peter Battre</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Interactive seminar with a focus on outdoor rock climbing, lifestyle adjustments and personal growth, nutrition, supplemental activities and medical evaluation</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 14. June through Tuesday, 19. June 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€750,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of five participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Fundamentals of Sport Climbing</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Entry-level course for outdoor rock climbing</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 12. July through Tuesday, 17. July 2018</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(five days of climbing in six day period)</span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 47px; padding: 4px; width: 137px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€325,— per Participant</span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 47px; padding: 4px; width: 136px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of three participants to maximum of six participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Transitions in Outdoor Climbing</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Intermediate-level course for climbers with some experience</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 19. July through Tuesday, 24. July 2018</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(five days of climbing in six day period)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€350,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of six participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>KALYMNOS REUNION</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>10-Day Private Invitation Only Group</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Reunion of past climbers who have taken various courses with <a href="http://kalymnosprimalclimb.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">kalymnosprimalclimb.com</span></a> in previous seasons</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friday, 03. August through Sunday, 12 August 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(nine days of climbing in ten-day period)</span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 60px; padding: 4px; width: 137px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€450,— per Participant</span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 60px; padding: 4px; width: 136px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of three participants to maximum of six participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Private Lessons & Personal Training</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Individual and small group custom lessons, training & coaching</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 16. August through Wednesday, 30 August 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€90,— to €280,— per Participant per Day</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(Click on the “Private Lessons & Personal Training” icon under “Services” on <a href="http://kalymnosprimalclimb.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">kalymnosprimalclimb.com</span></a>)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of five participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Fundamentals of Sport Climbing</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Entry-level course for outdoor rock climbing</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 30. August through Tuesday, 04 September 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(five days of climbing in a six-day period)</span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 47px; padding: 4px; width: 137px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€325,— per Participant</span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 47px; padding: 4px; width: 136px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of three participants to maximum of six participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Transitions in Outdoor Climbing</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Intermediate-level course for climbers with some experience</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 06. September through Tuesday, 12. September 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">(five days of climbing in a six-day period)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€350,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of six participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Multi-Pitch Basic</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Beginning-level course for bolted, multi-pitch routes</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday, 27. September through Saturday, 29. September 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">€325,— per Participant</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minimum of two participants to maximum of three participants</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Multi-Pitch Supplement</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Intermediate rope skills: partner assistance, emergency retreat, double rope technique - complements the Multi-Pitch Basic Course</span></div>
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Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-2076012693562478432018-03-04T09:44:00.003+01:002018-03-05T08:24:05.058+01:00When It All Goes Wrong - Tragedy in Cogne<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week in Cogne, 21. February 2018, a young Italian ice climber died when the detached pillar on the climb of <i>Pattinaggio Artistico Diretta</i> broke off while he was climbing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was walking into the <i>Valeille</i> side valley from Lillaz near Cogne the day of the accident to climb something else. The column broke off on the right side of the fall where you see the obvious fracture line. I had seen the formed pillar earlier in the week and it looked okay, a bit smaller in diameter at the base than at it's attachment point and not as massive looking as when I last saw it well formed about three or four seasons ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above photo is the larger of two pieces of the broken pillar about 250 meters below the icefall. I do not know any exact details of exactly what happened such as whether or not the climber had placed ice screws in the column or not. There was a report in Italian in the local mountain rescue website for the Aosta valley that said there was a three-person rope team led by the accident victim who may have been in the role, or was, a mountain guide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second piece of the pillar resting further up slope from the first and just a bit smaller. Both chunks of ice are massive weighing hundreds of kilograms each. The site www.icefall-data.org outlines the accident with temperature information <a href="http://www.icefall-data.org/app/#/event/30/50">here</a>. There has also been some back and forth on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/icefalldata/">icefall-data's Facebook page</a> about the comments written into the ice conditions books in <i>Bar Licone</i> and the <a href="http://www.iceclimbingcogne.com/">ice conditions</a> website from <i>Hotel La Barme</i> in <i>Valnontey</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above, the rescue helicopter set down on the snow slope 100 meters from the ruptured column that had been embedded in the rock walls of <i>Pattinaggio Artistico Diretta</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the 17th and 18th of February there was a major warm front that moved through the west Alps pushing the snow level up to 2000 meters and the freezing level to 2200 meters. There was very heavy precipitation, which fell as rain on the majority of ice climbs in <i>Valeille</i> including <i>Pattinaggio Artistico Diretta</i>. In the couple of days prior to the accident, temperatures swung in the other direction getting to around -10 to -12 degrees centigrade at night. The air temperature difference was easily as much as 15 degrees within a 48 hour period. Additionally, climbs on the left side of <i>Valeille</i> (the side of <i>Pattinaggio Artistico Diretta</i>) come into the sun in the afternoon and receive the effects of very strong solar radiation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the first photo that starts this post, one can see the deep blue color of the ice. This indicates very compact ice that has been warmed by solar radiation during the later part of the day. (At the time of the photo it was probably +2 or +3 degrees centigrade.) The ice becomes infused with melt water that then (hopefully) refreezes in the night, the ice structure expands as the water turns solid. This process is fickle as extreme fluctuations in temperature, humidity, sun, etc., will cause instability and when the fluctuation is shifting towards drastically colder temperatures, the ice is full of tension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a photo of the classic WI5 icefall <i>Stella Artice</i> a couple hundred meters further in the valley, and on the same side, as <i>Pattinaggio Artistico Diretta</i>. The photo was taken two days before the accident. What do you think of the ice structure and conditions of this climb?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ice season in Cogne usually goes from mid-December through March. <i>Stella Artice</i> was photographed above at the end of February. However, the conditions show an icefall in a state of typical early season ice. There are large hanging massive icicles, the pillars that touch down are much smaller at their base than at their attachment points and the difficulty of the icefall is clearly much harder than WI5. Additionally, if you have seen this icefall in good conditions, you can easily evaluate the difference between the February 2018 structure of <i>Stella Artice</i> and how the icefall looks when it forms in a much better and fatter way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The take-away from all the above is that the ice in the 2018 season in Cogne is much more sensitive to the weather and other environmental factors as the season comes to a close because the ice structures, most notably at the beginning of the side valleys and under 2000 meters, are much more susceptible to the sun and temperature because they are more or less in early season conditions, far from 'fat' and far from massively stable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the condition reports in the notebooks in <i>Bar Licone</i> or <i>Hotel La Barme</i> there are multiple descriptions of "very good conditions". There is a little bit of self-inflationary reporting as some climbers do not want to say that a grade WI4 or WI5 icefall is harder than the guidebook grade or that they are somehow challenged at this level. But, a lot of climbs that are noted as being in good conditions are clearly not when viewed from the experience of the perspective of over a period of ten years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What someone else writes in a notebook or on-line is just their opinion, which they are clearly entitled to, however it is just one bit of information from one human being who we usually have no contact or knowledge of. Ueli Steck was asked how he decides to climb something, if he calls hut guardians for information or talks to mountain guides, etc. He said "No", he makes is evaluations with all the information he collects and what his personal observations are. His point was that he did not want to be influenced, one way or another, from outside people with their own set of judgements, experiences and personality make up. Further, he felt that he has the experience to make his own decisions. He also needs the quiet, inner, reflective state of mind to really evaluate exactly what he is feeling, sensing and interpreting.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-64217268246552899202018-02-28T14:34:00.000+01:002018-02-28T15:09:12.264+01:00Resilience? Mind Over Bone? or Just Some Pig-Headedness ...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I was on the 20th of January a bit less than five weeks ago. I had broken my left wist when I took a fall skiing. I was free riding in terrain in a heavy snow storm with very poor visibility. I slowly traversed a very steep slope that unknown to me was above a small cliff. The lip of new snow broke away and I fell three to four meters on to a hard landing, ejected from the bindings and impacted my wrist. The injury, of course, couldn't have happened at a worse time ... A few close friends knew about this. Shit, I hate being injured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had courses in which I was both registered as a participant in for my own continuing training and education as well as courses that I was leading as an instructor -- predominantly with ice climbing. I had to cancel the work, but I was determined to partake in the courses that would be prerequisite certifications for the American Mountain Guides Association. I also wanted to keep commitments to some friends for ice climbing and ski mountaineering in the west Alps in the second half of February and into March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I went through the standard check ups after a three day hospital stay. I had the cast changed three times as is standard procedure. The wrist was pretty severely broken. The operation, which happened on the evening after my accident on the 19th of January took over three hours and was a little complicated. The surgeon put in a plate with eleven screws, and basically asked, "What the fuck did you do?" The photo above shows my unauthorised, super customised tweaks to the soft cast that was put on just before my trip to the west Alps on the 12th of February. This allowed me to ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Climb this easy couloir in Cogne on the 20th of February. It was my first time using ice tools on the real stuff. I had done some easy indoor climbing just two weeks after the injury. I also did swings and hangs with my ice tools, plus other supplemental training. I felt that my wrist was healing up well. I believe that the body is really magnificent in it's ability to adapt and recover. it is a phenomenal system that needs to be listened to with a calm mind. It then tells you what it needs. Mine needed to move, climb, ski.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I was first climbing in the the indoor gym, about two weeks after surgery, one of the regulars asked me, "Are you allowed to climb?" Well in one sense, of course not. In another, why do you need permission? How many doctors do you know that have any idea about climbing? Less about ice climbing. And none that know my body. Even in the very good Austrian health care system, you go to your short follow up appointments, that take a handful of minutes at best, and are not really regarded as an individual but as a case with a standard protocol. It is very clear that as an individual patient you are not really seen or heard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you heal and recover, any stress applied in the right doses causes adaptations and improvements in the body. The trick is listening to your body and finding the right dose, which fluctuates day to day. The happy Joe face above shows just how very lucky I feel being in a narrow, rocky couloir with perfect styrofoam snow and solid ice. I was, however still climbing with my customised soft cast. The previous week, I was also wearing a cast as I completed some avalanche courses (as a participant) in Chamonix. I had to be a little imaginative with glove systems as I was skinning and skiing at that time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I removed the cast. At the last check up about ten days prior, the examining doctor said I could have the cast removed on the 23rd of February. He said it would be no problem to have someone remove it in a hospital in France or Italy. I Just took it off myself. My wrist looked like a deformed sausage. i guess the hand modelling career has gone the way of my underwear modelling career because the wrist scar complements a pretty good scar I have somewhere else from a bouldering mishap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yesterday, 25th February, I got a little ambitious. I climbed a nice little 35 meter stretch of ice at WI3 to warm up and then did the approach to "Lillaz Gully" in Valille. I have soloed the gully before. It goes at WI4 and M5, or maybe it's WI3 and M-whatever. It doesn't matter. It's a nice couloir with steep ice steps, snow bowls and about ten meters of mixed climbing. I think it's around 200m long. It all went well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another happy face just before the crux ice and mixed pitch in the gully. I climbed with my wrist completely free of the cast and without using a removable splint. The range of motion is of course restricted still. My wrist is weak and painful in certain positions. But everyday will bring more mobility and strength.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An old, injured climbers standard treatment: a beer and ibuprofen. Icing the wrist, range of motion exercises and stretching are also clearly helpful. But, thank God for 'vitamin-I'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Injuries make me feel as if I am behind a gate and I can't come out and play. I hate the state of being injured, yet I know that this state has come about because it is exactly what i need to learn a little tidbit about myself. The how and why of how you got yourself injured is something that absolutely needs to be examined. You find out that the injury is not something that has happened to you, it is something that you brought about. This realisation comes about by reflecting on your inner state at the time of your injury with honesty -- it is usually very enlightening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is far better and much nicer to be able to choose when to kick back and take it easy instead of being forced to. However injuries are always tools to learn about yourself and they end up teaching you very valuable lessons. Of course, it's always good to have the luck and good fortune to survive your injuries. That realization right there is a pretty good lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Sunday, March 18, 2018 I will have a one-day course for the OeAV-Salzburg focusing on Off-Piste Skiing (Schifahren im Gelände). The course is through the Alpines Ausbildung Programm. For all the details click <a href="http://www.alpenverein-salzburg.at/Ausbildung/Schitouren/Schitechnik-im-Gelande/s_sig_1_18">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have a Intermediate Ski Touring Course (Schitouren Fortgeschritten) Friday evening, 23. March through Sunday 25. March 2018. For information click <a href="http://www.alpenverein-salzburg.at/Ausbildung/Schitouren/Schitour-Fortgeschritten">here</a>, and then to register follow the link under the course description or click <a href="http://www.alpenverein-salzburg.at/Ausbildung/Schitouren/Schitour-Fortgeschritten/s_fk_1_18">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks like there is only one place left for the one-day ski technique course on 18. March. If there is more interest, I will add another unit of the course in March. Contact me directly using the contact form on the right if you want to do the course but did not get a spot.</span></div>
Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-37767858936443322612018-02-08T20:44:00.002+01:002018-02-09T08:13:54.933+01:00Training, It's All Training Anyways *<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, we all want to train, at least that is what we tell ourselves. You work hard, you're busy, there's a lot to do, a lot going on. Training...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was no ice in early winter in Vermont when I was there in 2016. Here I was with time to use to get fit, train, get better... but what to do? I didn't accept that I was screwed. I built a training wall and got after it. You see the small logs at the bottom right on the ground? Those were the trees I cut down by hand with an axe as I cleared the land. My training was climbing the "ply-ice", chopping down trees & splitting wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later, some ice formed around the area. By a freak of nature, an ice drip formed on the telephone pole in our front yard. Don't ask me how, I have no idea. I climbed it and thought of it as a gift for the iceless purgatory I endured in November and December. It was a first ascent, free solo, I named it "Pole Dance", WI5. Maybe I should have shone better style, and have done it with less clothes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people peel the casing from their <i>Weißwurst</i> before dipping it in the sweet mustard and washing it down with a swig of <i>Weißbier</i>. Some don't. I first saw that peeling thing somewhere in a finer establishment in Munich - too fancy for me. that's for sure. I just eat the sucker. No peeling. I want everything that life has to offer, casing and all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On this day, I wanted to climb something else. The days goal held the lure of a test-piece, tick-list, sparkling little nugget that i could wear on my sleeve to satiate my ego. The object of my wanting wasn't fully formed and wasn't safe - though it was running with a small cascade of ice-cold water. My partner and I climbed the routes next door. They were easier, but we got pumped out silly until we couldn't hold on to our tools any longer. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Consciously or unconsciously, we all spend time in this corner. Try to recognise it sooner and sooner in yourself and your soul will appreciate it. Laugh at yourself when the realisation hits you. Maybe reflect a bit on why you've gotten mired in the gooey mess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are prices to be paid when you start smelling the remnants of sitting in the wrong corner of the bar. So you change, reinvent yourself, try to do a little better. "Wow!", you think to yourself, "this is great!" But, some people get threatened. You have left the main stream. Bonatti climbed the north face of the Matterhorn alone, in winter, by a new route. He persevered, fought for his life, suffered. What happened when he gave one of his first presentations to fellow climbers about his groundbreaking assent? His tires were slashed on his car outside of the venue. Don't expect a parade with roses. It ain't gonna happen...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I try to just do my thing and smile at all of it. The freezing cold, the wind, the rain, the less than ideal conditions - both internally and externally - and just let it be for what it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the day, you sometimes can descend by hitching a ride on a comfy lift to the valley floor, there's just one more sip of hot tea left in the thermos and you've had a day that flows by as if in a dream. Let it be. Let it go. Be Grateful. But don't expect it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* paraphrasing the well known quip by the late Alex Lowe</span></div>
Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-4694568097257922322018-01-22T13:41:00.000+01:002018-01-22T13:41:03.394+01:00Teaching<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a quote ascribed to Brazilian Jiu-Jiutsu legend Marcelo Garcia that in order to achieve mastery you need to have three relationships in your practice with others: 1) one in which you are further advanced, 2) one of balanced equality, 3) one in which you are clearly less advanced.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working together with those in a student - teacher relationship is one way to place yourself in a position where the relationship is one in which you are further advanced. However, the overriding feeling for me when teaching, instructing or running a course is a humble sharing of my experiences along my journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very important, strong indicator of good coaching is the feeling of the teacher sharing experiences, asking the student what they are sensing and thinking about and creating an environment where learning is a mutual sharing of information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teaching is not spewing verbal facts and information to demonstrate how much one knows. Teaching is not arrogantly telling someone everything they need to do. And teaching or coaching is certainly not cheerleading.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good coaching is setting up the conditions where the student, client, athlete, etc., teach themselves. This is so foreign to both those in a role of student as well as in the teaching role that it often creates a sense of initial disorientation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The instructor, teacher, coach, etc., overcomes the student disorientation by modelling and transmitting that there is 100% trust in the relationship. There must be a feeling of being protected, cared for and valued. But the point is to make the student better, not to make the student feel better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is not some quick fix, "hack", short cut, or whatever, to mastery. The greatest in any sport are always humble, open, honest and reflect that they are the eternal student.</span></div>
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Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-52382730090969464992017-07-04T07:48:00.002+02:002017-07-05T06:41:26.375+02:00First Month on Kalymnos this Season<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been on Kalymnos for a couple of days past a month now. I seem to be well adapted to the climbing, aegean climate and island rhythm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My wife and I are staying under the vast array of climbing sectors above the area of Armeos, just a short walk from the main tourist hamlet of Massouri. The sectors above our small studio are the classic hot-weather climbing areas. The line of crags is dominated by the always impressive Grande Grotta teeming with tufa pipes, stalactites and gargoyles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my fourteenth or fifteenth trip to Kalymnos over the past twelve years. My focus this season, outside of personal training sport climbing, is to further establish my climbing business activities on the island and build on the foundation that I have established here over the past years. My wife and I want to cultivate a lifestyle in which we are residents of Kalymnos for up to five or six months every year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Kalymnos specific website is <a href="http://kalymnosprimalclimb.com/">kalymnosprimalclimb.com</a>. I also have other social media linked to my sport climbing activities on Kalymnos to be found on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kalymnosprimalclimb/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kalyprimalclimb?lang=en">Twitter</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The summer season on Kalymnos is noticeably slower than in previous years. The main reason seems to be that there are no longer convenient flights to Kos airport for a lot of those travelling from the UK and parts of western and central Europe. The landing fees and conditions are rumoured to have caused many of the more affordable carriers to bypass Kos in favour of using other islands in the Dodecanese. Next year, the Kos airport will be under new management. The flight situation should be much better in 2018. The local businesses are making their dissatisfaction known, and in talking to some of the bigger generators of climber and beach tourist turnover on the island it is clear that the current situation with the airport on Kos will not be tolerated for another season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May was fairly busy with great climbing conditions that carried over into the first two weeks of June. You can see the white froth on the waves as the strong winds blow in from the north in front of Tolendos island in the first photo above. I had a couple of clients at the start of June and then some last-minute shorter-term instructing that all was a blast and quite fun. I will see what transpires in the next few weeks into the start of August, which is generally a pretty slow time for climbing on the island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All that is fine as I need to get in my training time too. I am doing two 'new' personal things with training this year on Kalymnos. The first is to practice, perfect and streamline rope soloing multi-pitch routes. The second is to do ultra endurance training with a lot of trail running and long-distance hike/run combinations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Optimising rope soloing technique is all about learning and experimenting with systems that allow you to move steadily and smoothly with of course 100% safety. It is also great climbing endurance training as one must move over each pitch three times: 1) climb on lead, 2) rappel pitch, 3) climb pitch on top rope. This means that you climb the route two times up and rappel the route once. I have done two easy/mid-grade routes on Kalymnos and Tolendos.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWPVMsGr27QlPoPSHGMOsxyYEjJXUWboabTWSoTIPH9DSt8DjQIbzAq_b1F1eMI4wJssyrgDOcX6XZHRanx4BbtjAWYQ9DDOAH3YO5LFCJZUQyc8g2iXxIKdIJqot52aPdiWr6DSCPpjA/s1600/IMG_0731.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1600" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWPVMsGr27QlPoPSHGMOsxyYEjJXUWboabTWSoTIPH9DSt8DjQIbzAq_b1F1eMI4wJssyrgDOcX6XZHRanx4BbtjAWYQ9DDOAH3YO5LFCJZUQyc8g2iXxIKdIJqot52aPdiWr6DSCPpjA/s200/IMG_0731.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the more traditional ultra endurance training, I am relying on a wonderful resource from Carl Dawson (a part-time Kalymnos resident and accomplished climber too). Carl wrote a guide book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kalymnos-Trail-Hiking-Guide-2015/dp/6185160013/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499145499&sr=8-1&keywords=the+kalymnos+trail">The Kalymnos Trail</a></i> that uses ancient paths, goat trails and modern climber's approaches to link the villages and areas of the island together in ten stages. In combination with the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kalymnos-Terrain-Maps-Stephanos-Psimenos/dp/9606845907/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499145943&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=kalymnos+map+Terrain+1%3A25.000">Kalymnos / Tolendos 1:25.000 trail map</a> from <i>Terrain</i>, I can make up extensive trail routes of various lengths over the upper valleys, ridges and peaks. For quicker runs, there is always the route along the road from Massouri to Emborios or the loop around Myrties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will be posting more about both rope soloing and trail running on Kalymnos. During the time of year when my wife and I are living on the island, we are continually thankful for the simple life here and the balance of working, being outside, sport climbing and training.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-26491789771052551202017-05-03T12:19:00.001+02:002017-05-03T18:18:41.218+02:00The Warrior Way for Young & Old<a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510Y0XGua4L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510Y0XGua4L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been a dedicated lister to the "<a href="http://jockopodcast2.com/">Jocko Podcast</a>" since the first episode. I heard about Jocko Willink through the podcasts of <a href="https://www.samharris.org/podcast">Sam Harris</a>, <a href="http://tim.blog/podcast/">Tim Ferriss</a> and <a href="http://podcasts.joerogan.net/">Joe Rogan</a>. I read the book Jocko wrote in partnership with Leif Babin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-ebook/dp/B00VE4Y0Z2"><i>Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win</i></a>. The words both spoken and written coming from Jocko seem to have hit a certain core need in people who are craving direct, clear, no feel-good crap to confront and overcome challenges and problems in their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His most recent book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Way-Warrior-Kid-Wimpy-Navy/dp/1250151074"><i>Way of the Warrior Kid; From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way</i></a> came out today, 02. May 2017. The Ebook magically appeared in the middle of the night on my iPad after I had pre-orderd it a few weeks ago. The book is a young adult book, but as Jocko has pointed out, there is a lot in its pages for adults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was strangely apprehensive about starting in on the book. I did not know why, but I found out as I read through it in about an hour this morning. Why am I reading a kids book? Why, without having any children, did I even buy it? Superficially, I justified the purchase because I do have a long-standing climbing group of young teens and I work on a regular basis with kids. I also thought that perhaps as a teacher, my wife could make use of the book personally and as material for her ESL courses at the international school where she teaches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The book brought up some childhood emotions. There are a lot of young people who need a character like Jocko's "Uncle Jake" in their life. The young boy in the book, Marc, at the story's end is full of gratitude for the help his Uncle Jake gives him over their summer together. Jake responds by telling Marc that <i>he</i> did all the work to enable his transformation and begin his warrior path -- and what is a most interesting message for us adults -- Jake explains to Marc that in reality Marc did not need his Uncle, he just needed to do something about what was causing his deficiencies in fitness, nutrition, learning, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the message to take home as an adult: If you wanted an "Uncle Jake" figure in your life that never materialised in your childhood, as an adult it does not matter, <i>it really does not matter now!</i> You can be your own Uncle Jake to your childhood self and take care of these lagging issues such as your nutrition, fitness, health, mental outlook, etc., by taking action and doing something now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another subtlety in the book is that the path Marc takes to being a warrior does not involve acquiring anything that is outside of himself. He doesn't need new running shoes, a set of weights, some weapon, intruding parents -- what he needs he already has in its raw, untapped form. What he needs to do is <i>to</i> <i>do</i>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Further, there is no examination for the reasons why Marc is in the situation he is in. We don't have someone commiserating with Marc about his predicament. Why? Because it is a waste of time and energy that can be better put to use by <i>taking action!</i> Taking action now to combat your inadequacies and shortcomings that every single one of us has.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So as an adult, do the people you choose to surround yourself with challenge you to do something about your predicaments, encourage you to take action and believe that through your own work that you will overcome? Or are you in the middle of a circle of people that are giving you "emotional support" that involves commiserating, complaining, blaming outside factors and telling you in so many words to learn to accept your fate? Worse are those who disguise their negative influence that pulls you down as "good, rational advice" or "friendship".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though I am not a parent, I follow the principles in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Way-Warrior-Kid-Wimpy-Navy/dp/1250151074"><i>Way of the Warrior Kid</i></a> in my relationships to the young people I work with in climbing courses. I treat young people with respect, I value their emotions and feelings, but I do not allow them to escape from confronting obstacles, responsibility and fear. There is a mastery and balance in the application of this that is different for every young person and in every situation -- which the reader sees in effect with Uncle Jake's interactions with Marc. I always try and find ways to challenge young climbers, whether with body weight strength training, warming up, coordination, fear of falling, 100% ownership of the safety of their partner, and many other climbing-specific situations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the international alpine community, we are all tremendously saddened by the death of Ueli Steck. It is easy to think of all the great accomplishments of such a god-like alpine phenom as being due to natural-born gifts, an extraordinary upbringing or environment, or other "special" things that make him different from you or me. That thought dismisses the role of hard work, the smart application of logical problem solving for oneself and the willingness to suffer through short-term failures and re-adjust time and time again. It dismisses the strength and stubbornness of character built up over years of experience to get to a level of mastery in physical and mental performance. This fixed-mindset thought and belief lets the believer of such off the the hook -- it is not your fault that you are not like Ueli Steck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canadian ice climber and friend of Steck, Will Gadd wrote <a href="https://www.facebook.com/will.gadd/posts/1381719715200810:0">this</a> insightful tribute to Steck on his Facebook page. It explains that Ueli worked hard and <i>made</i> himself into what he was. Do not mis-read, "it is not your fault that you are <i>not like</i> Ueli Steck", to mean "it is not your fault that you <i>are not</i> Ueli Steck". Ueli showed us all what we as unique individuals can aspire to and, <i>like</i> him, make our lives in to something that is more than what we believe possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I am saying that <i>it is your fault if you are not like Ueli Steck</i>. It is also my fault when I'm not like Ueli Stick, or anytime I retreat in to a shell of protective self-pity and choose to shirk away from directly confronting issues within myself. In this <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/opinion/ueli-steck-falling-off-the-edge.html?_r=0">New York Times</a> option piece about Steck's death, the Jonathan Griffith (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/JonGriffithPhotography/?pnref=story">Griffith's tribute</a>) photo of Ueli climbing the north face of the Col du Plan held a special meaning for me. I soloed that route three years ago. Looking at the exposure in that photo of Steck, I thought, "did I really do that?" and that the clear consequences of a mistake are blatantly obvious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The point here is not that I'm some hardcore alpinist, it is that ten years ago I never would have considered that I could solo climb a route such as the north face of the Col du Plan. In my twenties, such a <i>thought</i> would have never entered my mind. I am clearly not of the alpine caliber that was Ueli Stick, but I aspire to be of the highest caliber that I can be. The only way to do this is <i>to do this</i>. Simple. Plain. Unexciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That message needs to be transmitted to kids and adults alike. Without the sugar-coated niceties. We need this because it is what works and it is what is best for us as individuals. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Way-Warrior-Kid-Wimpy-Navy/dp/1250151074"><i>Way of the Warrior Kid</i></a> does this. It does this without violence, aggression or diminishing other people. It does it without criticism, belittling or shaming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something else that has inspired me after reading Jocko's book is that I know I want to be the "Uncle Jake" to kids. Whether I am climbing with them, swinging the kettle bell in the playground, skiing with them, whatever. I want to especially serve young people in my interactions with them that reflects the attitude, spirit and wisdom of the Uncle Jake character because, even though we all must take action for ourselves, a bit of encouragement never hurts and this is what the world needs.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-41452580836944099132017-04-28T17:54:00.000+02:002017-04-28T18:15:07.685+02:00Fat Adapted<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are always two things that people who are with me in the mountains climbing, ski touring, ice climbing, etc., and even while sport climbing at crags or on multi-pitch routes comment on. First is how small my backpack is and second, that I do not eat or drink much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do long days out often with just a litre bottle or thermos. I train a lot in a fasted state and many times with nothing to eat or drink - these can be four, six or even more hour-long endeavours If I am doing a course or guiding a tour, I am generally too busy to eat anyways. However, I will on colder days have some nuts or high-quality dried sausage with me. In summer, nuts and raw vegetables.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concept of being "fat adapted" is something that is making the rounds in a lot of sports endurance circles now. The idea is to get your body to utilise its fat stores at a greater and greater amount for work at an aerobic level. You are already carrying the potential energy with you on your body, so why not use it? In the alpine disciples there is great stuff on Steve House and Scott Johnston's website <a href="http://www.uphillathlete.com/">www.uphillathlete.com</a> that supplements the information in House and Johnston's book, <a href="https://www.amazon.de/Training-New-Alpinism-Climber-Athlete/dp/193834023X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1493391029&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+house" target="_blank">Training for the New Alpinism</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perhaps one of the first to bring the ideas of training and eating for metabolic fat addaption was <a href="https://philmaffetone.com/" target="_blank">Dr. Phil Maffetone</a> who coached a number of legendary Ironman athletes and ultra-distance runners. The more recent appearance of the idea of fat adaption has been the term "fat burning" seen in the diet books of those advocating 'paleo', 'primal' or 'ancestral' ways of eating as well as those who recommend ketogenic diets to readjust faulty metabolisms and cause body fat reduction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a ton of material on the webs, social media and in bookstores about this. It takes a bunch of patience and experimentation to see what works for you as an individual alpine athlete. The biggest hurdle for most however is to have an open mind about eating and training that often is very radically different from what you believe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have slowly figured things out for myself and now know what works for me to keep me able to train injury free across multi-alpine disciples and perform well. Unfortunately, most do not have the patience, discipline and determination to take this responsibility on themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a time when I bought into the hype of the hawkers of sports nutrition products, energy bars and gels, re-fuelling, pre-fuelling, carb loading, protein-to-carb ratios, on and on. It wasn't until I just got fed up with it all - it wasnt't working, my body composition was not optimal, I wasn't recovering or sleeping well - and took the steps to figure it all out on my own, for myself, and only using my own experience as a yardstick for what worked and what did not. I also had to open my mind to completely new and enlightened ways of thinking about eating and training.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-39414575870560547832017-04-07T12:56:00.000+02:002017-04-07T13:02:10.911+02:00Are You a Bodybuilder?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Way too many people think that somehow doing bodybuilder movements will then translate into better climbing. </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many have adapted the concept of training body parts from large commercial gyms and the fitness business media. So that their non-climbing training is based on doing some form of resistance exercise for a specific body part. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have nothing against bodybuilders per se, however, bodybuilding and fitness model training protocols will not be the best methods to improve your performance on the rock or in the mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Athletes need to train their bodys as one holistic integrated part. Athletic qualities are universal and involve accurate movement, patterning the movement, increasing the movements range of motion, increasing the strength at the ends of the range of motion, then focusing on developing speed, power and quickness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is so obvious when you say or write it, however every time I am in the climbing gym I see someone doing bicep curls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bodybuilding is not a performance sport. The point is the aesthetic development of your physic, not whether or not your physic performs well. Looking good naked does not mean you will climb 5.12a/7a+ or not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you train climbing, you are either improving your skills or you are improving your climbing specific fitness. The aspects of fitness that apply to climbing are predominantly, 1) finger strength and, 2) body composition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, you can use climbing to improve your body composition. However, body composition is without a doubt, first and foremost an issue of nutrition. Additionally, it makes no difference if excess muscle or excess fat limits a climbers strength-to-weight ratio. It is both excess.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All climbers are concerned with increasing their strength-to-weight ratio. You can 1) keep your strength and lose weight, 2) increase your strength and stay at the same weight, 3) combine weight loss with strength gains. So the optimal situation is to lose excess body fat and make your muscles stronger but not not bigger. Then, when you get to the right level, start slowly, painstakingly and with a long-term view incorporating climbing specific finger strength work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe that until you are climbing at around the 7b / 5.12b you do not need to do any supplemental training for your finger strength. Why? because you will progress much faster by simply climbing with as much variety as possible. All the necessary finger strength will develop as your climbing skills improve. More importantly, you are allowing the critical adaptations to take place in your tendons, ligaments, joints and bones - which progress much, much slower than muscle gains. All other muscle adaptation will nicely proceed as your climbing skill moves up to the level of 7b / 5.12b or so.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-69432951897828675602017-03-30T10:17:00.001+02:002017-04-01T08:12:18.085+02:00kalymnosprimalclimb.com Multi-Pitch Courses in May<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Get an early start on the European multi-pitch sport climbing season. Learn and practice rope technique, efficient team movement, safety, self-rescue, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.kalymnosprimalclimb.com/" target="_blank">kalvmnosprimalclimb.com</a> has spaces available In May for all types of multi-pitch climbing activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kalymnos offers exceptional sunny, dry, all-day climbing weather from May in to the first week of June. Courses are guaranteed. The long multi-pitches on Kalymnos' neighbouring island Tolendos are an all-day pleasure, from approach, climb and descent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All my courses and programs can be found on <a href="https://media.wix.com/ugd/dd236e_a2e4761107a9485cb4a6f7e4b0726f95.pdf" target="_blank">Kalymnos Multi-Pitch offerings</a>.</span>Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-23457985149738530712017-03-19T11:04:00.000+01:002017-03-19T11:32:08.701+01:00Kalymnos Klettern 2017, "Kalymnos Primal Climb"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meine neue Website über alle meine Sport-Klettern Aktivitäten auf Kalymnos ist da! <a href="https://fratiannijoe.wixsite.com/kalymnosprimalclimb" target="_blank">"Kalymnos Primal Climb"</a> hat Informationen über Kletterkurse, Privatunterricht, Personal Training, Multi-Pitch Sportklettern und zwei weitere innovative Programme, die ich von Mai bis Oktober 2017 anbieten werde. <a href="https://fratiannijoe.wixsite.com/kalymnosprimalclimb" target="_blank">Klicken Sie hier</a>, um zur "Kalymnos Primal Climb" zu gelangen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Lass mich wissen was Sie denken! Bitte, kontaktieren Sie mich wenn ich Ihnen in irgendeiner Weise helfen kann.</i></b></span></div>
Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-41568932081518446712017-03-19T10:36:00.001+01:002017-03-19T11:41:13.135+01:00Kalymnos Climbing Courses 2017, Kalymnos Primal Climb<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My new website for all my activities on Kalymnos is up! <a href="https://fratiannijoe.wixsite.com/kalymnosprimalclimb" target="_blank">Kalymnos Primal Climb</a> has information on sport climbing courses, private lessons, personal training, multi-pitch climbing and two other innovative programs that I will be offering from May through October 2017. <a href="https://fratiannijoe.wixsite.com/kalymnosprimalclimb" target="_blank">Click here</a> to go to the website.</span><br />
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Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-72058938942586441122017-03-05T10:16:00.002+01:002017-03-14T17:16:21.076+01:00Looking Back<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here it is the 5th of March. I haven't posted anything since mid-December. I justify this by thinking of a quote from Mark Twight who said once you start spending more time writing and talking about your alpine exploits then that is a clear sign that your going downhill and moving into Poserville.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But ... I get so much from reading some good stuff from people and I would like to think that I can contribute a small bit. So, once again I think I'll try to do better. Life is however taking action and doing, not talking about it or writing about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been doing a lot of ice climbing this season, which makes up somewhat for the dismal season in Europe in 2015-2016. Here is one of the best things I came across recently related to <a href="http://willgadd.com/note-to-self-how-not-to-fall-off-ice-climbing/" target="_blank">ice climbing</a> from Will Gadd. I have really learned so much from him through his book (which is now getting a bit outdated - hey Will, how about doing a new version???) and the great things he has posted through the years on his blog and website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The week before Christmas I was in the Aosta valley ice climbing. I spent Christmas in Chamonix, but unfortunately there wasn't much snow and no ice around, so I went back through the tunnel to Aosta for a few more days post-Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I began a pretty heavy schedule of activities for the Salzburg Alpenverein: a handful of ice climbing courses, an avalanche course, an off-piste ski technique day and a ski touring course. In between all the courses there was a mid-February trip to Cogne for almost two-weeks of ice climbing. In the past couple of weeks I have been on my skis either ski touring or free-riding just seeming to find adequate snow conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition to all this stuff, I have been trying to keep my sport climbing fitness up to speed with indoor training (It is not really going so well!) and keeping up with my clients who have personal training with me climbing indoors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's funny to think about it but a number of times I feel like I'm not doing enough, or I could be doing things a bit better. Scrolling through some of the photos on my computer, I realise that I have had an active few months and I don't know how I could have done more. Just goes to show you that never being satisfied, or thinking that you could do better, is part of the human condition.</span><br />
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Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-44922678852620593332016-12-12T11:22:00.001+01:002016-12-12T11:29:29.449+01:00Early Season (2016/17) Ice in Gasteinertal (Gastein Valley)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The photos are from the first Sunday in December, 04.12.2016. I have been in the Gastein valley three times now to climb some early season ice. The pictures are from various side valleys at the end of the main valley, in Bockstein and Nassfeld.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you zoom-in on the photo above you'll see a rope team in this moderate classic. Of course the various climbs that are formed are more serious and technically more difficult than their guidebook ratings. The ice is more fickle to protect and not as compact and steeper as it is not filled in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A benefit of the lack of snow is that the threat of avalanches is non-existent in all the climbs to the right of the toll road unto Sport Gastein. There are two or three falls that are well enough formed (on 04.-09.12.2016) but will be much more susceptible to any weather and temperature fluctuations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the higher elevations in the Siglitz valley, the easier long embedded ice is compact and thickly built up. Additionally, the lack of snow makes all the low-angle climbs visible and fun to climb without their normal covering of snow to slog through in the flatter sections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Specifically, I have climbed <i>Federweis</i>, <i>Dopple Lutscher</i>, <i>Siglitzfall</i>, <i>Siglitz Coulior</i> and some other easy lines at the back right side of the Siglitz valley in the direction of the <i>Niedersachsenhaus</i> under the <i>Riffelscharte</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As of today, 12.12.2016, we have had some warmer, damp air move into the area and the ice conditions in the Gastein valley are pretty sensitive to any changes. On the 8th of December, it was already clear that it was a bit more humid and the higher moisture level in the air was effecting the ice. The <i>Link Dopple Lutscher</i> was running with water at 13:00.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As at the start of every ice season, it is best to be conservative in your choices and stay well within your ability level. You also have to be willing to just take your tools for a walk and check out things, leaving them for another day.</span></div>
Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-59038883455792886322016-12-05T11:27:00.002+01:002016-12-06T12:51:27.598+01:00Schitechnik im Gelände, 11.12.2016 - UPDATE!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Den AV-Salzburg Alpine Ausbildungkurs, "Schitechnik im Gelände" am So. 11.12.2016 werden nur auf dem Piste durchgeführt. Leider, gibt es viel zu wenig Schnee den Kurs im Gelände zu machen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fr. 02. Dez. (Start um 09:00 vor Ort) - So. 04. Dez. 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ort: Obertauern oder Kaprun (je nach Schneelage)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So. 11. Dez. 2016 (Start um 09:00 vor Ort)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ort: Obertauern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do. 05. Jän. (Start 18:30 Maltainerhof) - Sa. 07. Jän. 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sa. 21. Jän. 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do. 26. Jän. (Start um 18:30 Malteinerhof) - So. 29. Jän. 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ort: Maltatal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Treffpunkt: Gasthof Maltainerhof, Malta, 18:30 Uhr (Gruppe Abendessen)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ch werde in dieser Saison ab Mitte Mai 2016 auf Kalymnos. Die Sportklettern paradise Kalymnos bietet im späten Frühling eine perfekte Klettertrainingsumgebung. Dort kann Mann für die Kletterseason in Europa sehr günstig vorbereiten. Mai in Kalymnos bietet sichere, stabil Wetter und die Bedingungen für Klettern den ganzen Tag in den warmen, sehr angenehme Temperaturen.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxRyxW59OD6VI6rsGgbtKrJ0GWCTx1c_9ChQqeuC0xr52k-VNaWVJH4kp7vlmofBh2H-HukHqvl_QzNJ9-w65ItavIcJufdh81F2YjmPn5qRRZgsUlQPe6gOjlkl-cRUpXXo22eOYmvlU/s1600/CIMG5444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxRyxW59OD6VI6rsGgbtKrJ0GWCTx1c_9ChQqeuC0xr52k-VNaWVJH4kp7vlmofBh2H-HukHqvl_QzNJ9-w65ItavIcJufdh81F2YjmPn5qRRZgsUlQPe6gOjlkl-cRUpXXo22eOYmvlU/s200/CIMG5444.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ich plane, auch mit Kunden auf Kalymnos über den Sommer und von Ende September bis Ende Oktober 2016 arbeiten. Die Herbstsaison auf der Insel einfach wunderbar ist. All-Tag Klettern ist möglich, die Temperaturen sind angenehm und die Ägäis ist noch warm und einladend für apre Klettern schwimmen gehen oder eine Ruhetag am Strand genießen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">die Routenentwicklung auf Kalymnos ist unübertroffen. Sie können eine nahezu unbegrenzte Auswahl an Routen für Ihre Kletterfähigkeit finden. Aufgrund der Make-up die Routen, perfektes Wetter und reichlich Kletter Sektoren, können ein Kletterer in einer Woche mehr klettern als in einer ganzen Saison in den europäischen Alpen. Es gibt viele Mehrseillaengentouren von bis zu 10 oder 11 Seillängen sowie eine Vielzahl von Top-Level 2 und 3 Pitch Mehrseillängen Ausbildungtouren.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodrdmxt3w5JOX48897QM8EhkWTDTRK8JILjWwN99Qnd5__FvVWRMV99aiaqm6FEv-qezPJQPGVDaEc00Uc6L7n9G3Lmo2C6-Hl9ZlNk4dY7LPPIc-WUdc6Fd0qwI9wnrQ1dBtl8C6PnQ/s1600/IMG_0096.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodrdmxt3w5JOX48897QM8EhkWTDTRK8JILjWwN99Qnd5__FvVWRMV99aiaqm6FEv-qezPJQPGVDaEc00Uc6L7n9G3Lmo2C6-Hl9ZlNk4dY7LPPIc-WUdc6Fd0qwI9wnrQ1dBtl8C6PnQ/s200/IMG_0096.jpg" width="149" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ich habe seit mehr als 10 Jahren Kalymnos regelmassig besucht, eigentlich seit dem Beginn der Kletterentwicklung auf der Insel. Ich habe eine Fülle von Wissen über die Klettergebiete, Routen und Optionen sowie logistische Kenntnisse an Unterkünften, Restaurants, Transfers, Dienstleistungen, usw. Ich kann in alle Arten von Informationen, Unterkünfte reservieren, Scooters oder Mietwagen buchen, Taxi Transfers arrangieren, sowie aktuelle Ferry Fahrpläne von Kos, usw, mithelfen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will be in Kalymnos starting in mid-May 2016 this season. In late spring, Kalymnos offers a perfect climbing training environment for getting ready for the climbing season in Europe. May in Kalymnos offers secure, stable weather and conditions for all-day climbing in warm, yet very comfortable temperatures before the onset of the summer heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am also planning on working with clients on Kalymnos through the summer and from the end of September through October 2016. The fall season on the island is wonderful. All-day climbing is possible, the temperatures are comfortable and the Aegean Sea is still warm and inviting for a post climb swim or rest day at the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been going to Kalymnos for more than 10 years, actually since the beginning of the development of climbing on the island. I have a wealth of knowledge about the climbing sectors, routes and options, plus logistical knowledge of accommodations, restaurants, transfers, services, etc. I can help with giving all kinds of information, reserve accommodations, book scooter or car rental, arrange for taxi transfers, pass along current ferry transfer timetables from Kos, etc.</span><br />
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Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720055513945414447.post-79156827828107904632015-12-07T21:25:00.004+01:002015-12-07T21:25:57.359+01:00Smugglers Notch Early Season Ice 2015/16<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On Wednesday before thanksgiving, 25 November, I was first up in Smugglers Notch. I had a hunch that there would be something or other to climb, so I took the tools for a walk. I am new to the Northeast this season and I don't have a sense of how things form up yet. Smugglers Notch is only 45 minutes or so away from from where I'm living in Warren, Vermont. And it isn't such a inconvenience to get over there.<br />
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On the 25th, the climbs on the right side (coming up from Stowe) were hanging with forming ice, verglassed slabs and wet rock. The upper pitches of the climbs looked like they were coming along nicely. The lower parts where just wet rock or a very thin sheet of ice with water running underneath. The ice on <i>Ragnarock</i> and <i>Elephants Head Gully</i> was coming in but certainly not formed.<br />
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The west-facing side on the left was much more inviting: shielded from the sun, cold, hoarfrost and a dusting of snow. I went up the creek bed to approach the amphitheatre where <i>Blind Fate</i> looked good and a beautiful ice column as part of a line immediately to the left also was promising.<br />
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I climbed up the final approach gully mixing it up on thin ice and rock until I was under <i>Blind Fate</i>, (III, WI4). I took the <i>Blind Fate </i>option, mostly because I wanted to climb a Bouchard route on two different continents. I moved over the lower angle ramp, trending right. The ice was pretty thin and not always well bonded because of some running water. The upper part was in great shape. Plastic ice, well structured and a joy to climb.<br />
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I was back up at Smugglers Notch on Monday, 30 November. The warm weather on Thanksgiving Thursday and the following Friday took its toll on the fragile, early season ice. Everything had substantially deteriorated. The <i>Elephants Head Buttress</i> side was stripped of much of the hanging ice and just wet. The climbs in the <i>Blind Fate</i> sector were broken and dangerously unclimbable. All the following photos are from Monday, 30 November.<br />
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After seeing the effects of the warm weather and changes from Wednesdasy the 25th, I had mentally written-off the thought of finding anything to climb. I walked over the pass with a couple of dog walkers and turned around to head back towards Stowe. As I started descending on the road southwards, I saw the upper ice of a gully tucked-in a cold nook and facing a bit more north / northwest.<br />
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I made my way up a creek bed and into the steep woods towards the promising-looking ice curtain. I geared up at the base of an approach gully that was filled with compact ice. It was about 120 meters of climbing before I got to the upper part of the ice curtain visible from the road. The gully was thin and interspersed with vertical steps of two to four meters with some fun, easy mixed climbing too.<br />
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I used the ice features to move diagonally right towards a small cave and then up and left in a kind of ice staircase to top out. It was easier than it looked from lower down. The ice was plastic yet well bonded. It was, however dripping / running with melt water over the hanging icicles and forming nice cauliflower blobs.<br />
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I made five, 30 meter rappels to the base of the ice gully. finding good ice for V-threads was a challenge. I bored four holes for one anchor and equalised them with cord. The rest of the anchors were normal threads, with the last one from a tree.<br />
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A techical note: I really like my 6mm Rap Line (Mammut, but there are also some from Edelrid). I have used it while soloing in Chamonix last spring and summer. The 60 meter length packs really compactly and is very light. It's pretty unnerving to use it the first time if your not accustomed to such skinny ropes. At only 6mm, I can thread it directly through the V-threads, saving the waste of leaving cord behind when the fall melts out in spring.Joe Fratiannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15174920808562973940noreply@blogger.com2