Rochers Des Grands Malades Belgium

This weekend no trad but some sport climbing in Belgium.
Due to my elbow injury low profile climbing and just having fun.


Peter and I went to Belgium to a new crag for me called Rochers Des Grands Malades.
The crag is very near to Namen and Beez where I have been multiple times.


The crag is nicely situated and has morning sun and afternoon shade.
It was quit and just some teenagers with their instructor were doing some via verata and some rappelling.
https://splice.gopro.com/v?id=3JwR4X512
Routes are most vertical, slaby and some have some small overhangs.
Nice but certainly not always easy.


Below some pictures of the crag.

Toms Lay St. Johann Ettringen

Hello,


Last week the whether forecast was bad. Rain was expected again.
So we slept a little longer to catch up from the week with early morning hours for work week duties.


We went to Ettringen a little later, nevertheless we still were the first ones in a small crag called Toms Lay in St Johann.
A few weeks earlier we cleaned most of the traditional routes during climbing, but now we went for some overgrown uglies that needed for sure some cleaning.
We started with the bolted Schach Matt 6 which is a pretty nice starter with some big moves.
I cleaned Rumpelstilzchen 6- from the top and San did the route on-sight trad.
Then we cleaned the bolted Tommahawk (a project before) which should be a 8- (6c+). Apparently harder than that I thought, specially the first large move and the balancing ending on the face and arête.
Regretfully I could not finish it due to my injured elbow.
We closed the day with cleaning and San climbing Himavat 7- just before the rain came down.
Next day we spend our time in Finsterlay Mayen, one of our favourite crags where we have our ceremony stone for our lost friend Martijn Seuren.
We tried some routes but conditions quickly changed from good to very bad. We left as it became too slippery. Once above quarry it was dry again, nevertheless went back thru the corn field and became soaked wet ha, ha, ha.

San rapping up in Finsterlay

Rain came pouring down on the crag