Ascents in Europe as various tick types as sport by Jef Van Alsenoy

Great route for trad pratice!

Yay, first 6c onsight, but seriously it wasn't so much of a fight. Giveaway 6c? The crux was spicy, but it's not that hard before or after.

Great climbing, loved it. Runout last bolt!

Beautiful, long, and always harder than you remember it to be.

Very nice, had to clean it, there's room for choreography improvement

Good

Nice route, so long! Quite a fishy ending, the anchor is in a weird place.

Hard for a 6a+ but not too hard. Polished-ish.

A bit confusing where to go, but beautiful sustained 5c climbing.

First touch of Berdorf rock: feels very creative and unlike anything else. Hard to read, because it all looks great from a distance.

Anna put in quite a fight! I thought it was very OK, but not so clear where to go...

Did the book say: do not follow the chimney all the way up? Whoops. Fun tradding in the chimney though, and a feisty warm up.

Too hot to climb.

30 Years ago this must have been of stunning beauty, now the polishedness of it makes it a bit less aesthetic. The polished start doesn't allow for very elegant climbing IMO, unless you're super comfortable at this grade. But the rest of the route makes up for the (nonetheless choreographically impressive) start, and I just love long sustained routes. Pieter got the brain chills halfway through; good practice material.

Pieter's Nemesis of the day... He fought really hard! The bolts are far apart for us and he's not comfortable placing gear but made a lot of progress! He went up, felt instantly pumped, placed some stuff, took some rests, felt pumped again,... a lot of mind barriers. Took him down for a coffee, sent him back up, he made a lot of progress but was well cooked arriving at the part where it started getting easy. He put in great work! I flashed it and it felt really ok for me, placing some extra gear, the placements are there, the holds are there, I felt good sending it and the last bite before the anchor is really intense

Felt hard for a 5C, even though it wasn't, felt that I was climbing technical but not with ease of mind...

I sent it way to pumpy and bumpy but managed somehow. Amazing texture of the rock, so beautiful.

Cool route, few footholds at the end. Well bolted so safe to lead.

Quite a blank crux, but very doable when you decide to.

Polished, well bolted and not too obvious with respect to the footwork. Almost didn't make it.

Easy for the grade.

Easy for the grade.

Can you use the other wall for 3D climbing? If yes, definitely not 6b but loads of fun, if not, well, whatever. We checked the sunset from above... beautiful.

Cool first move, great for tall people!

First portaledge experience! The first pitch was spicy and more polished then expected. Took a nice fall to warm up the spirits. Also took an unexpected fall when hauling, what a scare! Good that the backup rope was there Second pitch was also a good lead for me, Pieter wasn't in for it. Started mounting the portaledge by deep dusk, went pretty smooth after all. We went down for food and riesling on a single rope expecting to "have a highway to our bed after dinner". Pieter jumared his way up in maybe 25 minutes, getting there with a lot of swearing using his improvised jumaring setup. I top tope solo'd it up but also had a hard time after the day and the riesling. Good sleep, chilly though. Remember not to pee next to the anchor! First poop tube experience! Pieter led the last pitch the next morning. Good riddance!

Look harder than expected in the cold (2°C), and I chose to abandon a green point attempt in favor of a more controlled warm up.

Quite a weird traversing route with good holds all the way. I managed to pass the chimney crux with the elegance of a teapot.

This has to be Belgium's finest warm-up route... Incredibly beautiful!

Very balancy, although it looks dynamic!

Very beautiful route with requiring inspiring moves.

Cool