WILD CAMPING IN A FARM FOREST | Bushcraft | Tarp Shelter | Overnight | Campfire Cooking

Hello Lovely People, here the 2 Small on our Blog Jan-San-Climbing,

As you might have noticed we started a YouTube Channel to document all our adventures. We are off coarse climber but we do much more than that like bush-crafting, camping, running, mountain biking, traveling and many more activities that are always exciting. We try to upload one video per 2 weeks so than you when to expect the next one.

We just loaded a video this Friday and in this Video we show you our Bush-craft Overnight Wild Camping Trip in a Farm Forest.

Since Sandra is still recovering from her knee surgery (meniscus flap) and hardly can walk we took it easy and we divided the tasks. Sandra cutting the wood for fire and me doing all the walking jobs😅.  So Sandra and I went hiking thru some forests in an Agricultural area in the Netherlands close to "Den Hout".  The wind was again quite strong so we had to search for a sheltered spot for our Tarp Shelter. In this agricultural region there are a lot of ditches and waters with small forests and bushes. In those bushes some old farmer machines were located that got our attention. We found a nice place but the wind was constantly changing. Our tarp almost flew in the air due to the heavy wind or storm 😅 so we placed it  a few meters behind some trees and bushes. We used wood stumps to keep the tarp down and to reinforce the wind stability.  When the tarp was up we made a open fire place with some reflecting shields made from wood sticks to prevent the wind from blowing the fire out.  But the wind turned and blew the smoke into our tarp 😥. Eventually we moved the tarp slightly and the fire pit as we got quite hungry. It took us quite some effort to find dry wood but we managed to find some dead trees that Sandra could cut with a handsaw. This was a Life-saver!

When the weather settled we could start cooking on the open fire with a tripot and our small barbecue stand. We had a great dinner.

It was a very relaxing night with wind howling on the tarp, it was not cold at all so we slept as  roses. In the morning when we woke up I directly made a fire for breakfast with bacon & eggs and coffee. I went out of the small the forest to see some cows that were mooing for food from the farmers. The lady farmer came with here small tractor to give them some food, sweet!

We even spotted some sun when ramping the camp down again. It was a great adventure!

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Sandra and Jan traveling to the Ecrin Hautes-Alpes for Climbing

Welcome Back,

We are getting to slow with our blogs.

But we are more and more sharing our post, pictures and video's  on social media.

Main reason is our YouTube activities which is great fun😃 

This August 2021 we went to France and climbed in the Ecrin. 

What a nature!!!!

Sandra and I did outrages hikes and climbs around the region of Guillestre and Briancon.

Please check out our French video series on YouTube by pushing the links

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Abandoned Secret Trad Climbing Area in Kottenheim Germany

 Hi All,

It has been a while since we shared a post. Main reason is our YouTube activities.

Being on a climbing trip in Europe we found the time to edit the video that we took in Kottenheim and Ettringen in Germany last month.

We went there to find a group of 3 routes called "De Drei Zwerge". Since it is not often climbed we called it a Abondened Secret Area 😀.

Please check out this movie on Youtube by pushing the link

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REVIEW OF SALEWA - Women's Wildfire GTX - Approach shoes

Hi Guys or Girls,

Sandra just wanted to give her personal review on her Salewa-Women's Wildfire GTX Approach shoes.

It is already the third pair of these approach shoes that she bought in the last 10 years.

Most important reason for her is the perfect balance between being a lightweight approach shoe and still sturdy enough for real demanding tracks and rock. With these GTX shoes you can count on their reliability in all weather conditions. They stay even dry when passing rainy grass areas. She is using the shoes in both warm and cold weather conditions without any problems just adapting her socks when required. So please size them correctly for winter socks. In summer, the shoes breath sufficiently to keep cool. The sole feels very secure on rocky surfaces when scrambling up to your climbing routes. The climbing zone on the toes even can give some additional support when climbing small passages.

Every 4 years of service and using them quite intense during every climbing weekend on rock approaches the shoes now are being used as mountain biking shoes where they get really worn out. Nevertheless, very good shoes.

San bought already here new pair of Wildfire GTX and continues to use them.

Thanks to Salewa for making these magnificent shoes.

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Sandra with her first pair

 

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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.

We hope that you enjoy the video’s and if you have any comments please let us know. To support us making videos and blogs please subscribe and ring the notification bell so you won’t miss another video. It’s all for free.  

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