2 Small Running and Mountain biking in the Forest

Introducing our Trad Rack; Black Diamond, Camp, Wild Country, Trango.

Hi, we are Sandra and Jan a couple forming the 2 Small Adventurers. We love to be outdoors and do all kind of adventure activities.  One of our favorite activities is “trad” climbing. It started in the early 90’s when I switched from “speleology climbing” to sport climbing. I got fascinated by a trad climbing course which I did with Mark and Rowland Edwards in Spain and became immediately addicted. Both San and I we love to do crack routes from micro width to off width. We are by no means experts or pro’s but just two recreation climbers that want to have trad adventures next to our regular sport climbing adventures. Don’t get us wrong we still love to do sport climbing routes with bolted protection. Please check this blogsite per country where we climbed traditional routes if you want to see some pictures.

Germany: Ettringen and the Pfalz

Italy: Cadarese

France: Annot

Spain: Costa Blanca Area

Denmark: Bornholm

Sweden:  Bohuslän

So we have been climbing trad routes for quite some time now and built up our trad rack over the years, beginning small with a limited rack. As the gear is quite expensive for a private climber it is important to choose the correct one’s for your purposes and take good care of your equipment.

Meanwhile we have a full double set of cams from smallest to the largest. With some, smaller ones maybe triple. Than off course the stoppers or nuts and some specials. Like ball nuts.

Friends or Cams.  We use  Camelot C4, Camelot C3, Camelot X4 X4 from Black Diamond

Ball Nuts.  use Camp Ball Nuts

Stoppers or Nuts. We use some classic ones from Wild County and new Micro Stoppers nuts from Black Diamond 

Some Big off-width equipment Big Bro 4 from Trango

We use also slings and cordoletts for belaying or in between relays.

If you want we can give reviews of our equipment in more detail with some tips. Please leave a comment in this blog or send us an e-mail or go to our You Tube channel and leave a comment there. Or better please subscribe and ring the notification bell to see videos of us.

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Thanks Sandra and Jan from 2 Small Adventurers and Jan-San-Climbing

Exploring Val Durance in France 2020, are we Climbing or Hiking?

Hi All,

This summer we went again to the Val Durance area in France for a 2 weeks sport climbing adventure.We stayed in the neighborhood of Guillestre. Val Durance is called after the river the “Durance” that runs thru the area of Briançon  and Guillestre in the Hautes-Alpes. 

Our original plan was to do lots of sport climbing, but it became more a mix between hiking and climbing. In many occasions the hiking was extremely steep and exhausting but in the end it was great fun with great views and the weather was good.

Our resting day, was a steep hike in the Ski village Risoul doing the vertical trail “very steep” to the summit. Very nice and blue sky’s. We made some video’s and pictures there. The walk back was descending steeper and longer than expected. A nice refreshment in the touristic ski resort was a real threat. 

During our 2 weeks vacation we had heavy rainfall and San her air matrass became leak so we had to visit Briançon to buy a new one. Strikingly the world cup of lead climbing was going on where Adam Ondra made his victory in a wonderful show. We enjoyed that tournament.

Again we visited magnificent crags from which the views were stunning.

Mont-Dauphin:  Shade and sunny areas, conglomerate rock, sometimes technical and hard.

Jo Trango: New area for us, long ascent since you had to leave the car down below. Nice area but became to quick sunny and too hot for real serious climbing.

Le Ponteil: Always a top location. Great technical vertical routes and adventures long single pitches with great overhangs. Experienced some rain and thunder but achieved to manage some classic routes there.

Simoust: One of our favorites locations. Less crowded than Rue des Marques and super long exhausting routes, still a lot of development is going on.

Grand Bois: Long story, as we missed one day of climbing sincw we could not locate the crag good enough but too much hiking and wrong decisions along the way. A couple of days later we found it but were still searching for 2.5 hours. Climbing was good but we were too tired.

Saint Crepin: Our favorite, nice ascent to the crag, great views and quite unspoiled routes and very quit.

Rue des Marques: Both we still have problems with this area, too many people so very crowded and the routes are full of chalk. Nevertheless great climbing

Rocher Gafouille: Nice crag with great setting above the town Briançon.

If you read our blogs you must have noted that we started a You Tube Channel called 2 Small Adventurers. Small because we are not biggest climbers.

We offer people to watch our adventures which is more than only climbing but also all other kind of activities. We encourage you to watch our videos.

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Jan-San-Climbing, 2 Small Adventurers

Trad Climbing in the Pfalz a real adventure, June 2020

Hi Guys or Girls,

Yes it has been a while that we wrote something in our Blog. This had many reasons but was mainly because of my shoulder injury that kept us from Climbing and even driving. So no Climbing.

Time heals everthing.

Now in 2020 with covid19 restrictions the borders opened at June 15th and we headed to Germany to climb in the Pfalz.

Without proper training we enjoyed a one week of Trad Climbing on the magnificint red sandstone of the Pfalz. As usual we used out Trad Gear with great pleasure.

We made some vidoes about our adventure and put it on YouTube. 

Please check it out and if you have question or comments please let us know.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKV27nPiEusYylUz-wP4Euw?view_as=subscriber

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Thanks San and Jan