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

Almost couldn't send this clean, that's been a long time...?

Warm up, great

Jugfest

On the first go, I got to the Crux pretty well but couldn't read it onsight. The second try I had to work for a while to figure out how to get past the lower section. The third go was Petzl time but in the dark I could remember the beta so that was cool.

Probably harder for shorter people.

To make our assault of the Roca dels Arcs more epic, we decided to bushwhack first, then climb the contrafort and then find our route. Nice dihedral, on top another ten meters of pure trad on bad rock. Adventure!

First route of the trip. Couldn't fond pitch 2!

Tricky and confusing to read middle part.

Cool

Haha I made a very complicated bad move low on the route and suffered some skipped heartbeats but apart from that beautiful tradding and great fun.

Exceptional choreography,absolute stunner of a route. Well bolted.

First rope solo, yaay. First length I tried the clove-hitch-on-biner technique, the second length the grigri. Lots of rope management, even With the rope in a backpack.

Blasted through the middle section with more arms than feet. Should use the feet more!

Kobe's eerste lead.

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.

Wow, looked way harder than expected, but probably harder due to cold and wetness. Happy to have redpointed it.

smooth

Didn't manage to put the 2nd draw in while climbing

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.

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

What a stunning line! Incredible... So much lovely cam and nut placements. The roof can be well protected and climbed, even the easy section above lends itself to gracious movement. Pieter tore some rocks off, that was cool.

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!

Short, cool, creative. Nice first Rendez-vous with the Pfalz rock.

Felt very, very smooth, I told Shana it was the first route that felt like focused cruisin'.

Felt hard for a 5b! I wasn't too comfy!

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.

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

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

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

A bit hard to read what you can and cannot do, the route was a bit to ambiguous for me... Leaves me wit a doubt whether I 'earned' the ascent - how to get rid of gradeism... ?

When going back with the dog a while back

After Shana tried it I cleaned it and got my red point in.

Awesome.

This one is rated harder for no significant reason IMO.

A good practice in placing shit gear. Decided to back up maybe three shitty cams with a draw in the bolt.

Feisty warm up, technical reading of the route.

Hard to read middle section, these types of routes a very harsh on a misreading of the sequence! Had to RP because Sofie didn't feel like it.

A joy to greenpoint. Long and fair trad climbing, a good variety of placement options! Great warm-up.

Took shanss some attempts to figure out what and where. It's not very clear. Nice climbing though! And many options to be creative.