Snowfever

Bouldering outdoors lately had been a hard time. It seems like there was no place where there wasn't any snow arround... We've been trying to boulder in the Zillertal and other places more southern like Cresciano or Chironico, but everywhere it's the same sane: snow all arround. We cancelled our latest one week trip to Ticino after 3 days because it was just a bit too much action walking arround in the snow all the time, shoes wet, clothes wet, pads wet, topouts wet... anyways, lets hope it gets better soon or that it starts to snow properly so we can all go ski/snowboard in some nice powder and go to the gym instead :D

Found a nice vid of our trip to Bishop this february that I thought would fit in perfectly speaking of the current bouldering situation... Enjoy!

I hope everyone had a good year 2009 and is psyched for a massive party time on new years eve!! Wish everyone a good 2010, with lots of time outside climbing, have fun and take care. See ya next year!

Emi 

maze of death in the snow... from emi-moosburger.blogspot.com on Vimeo.


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Another clip...

...from the Rocklands-trip. Enjoy!

rocklands '09 more stunners from emi-moosburger.blogspot.com on Vimeo.


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American Gangster

Yesterday, Daniel Woods did the FA of two of the best hard lines in the Zillertal, Austria. The lines are located in the Sundergrund Area and the first one is a steep 45° overhanging problem that he named "American Gangster" and graded 8B+. Its the straigth exit to the existing problem "Camorra" 8A+ that Korni and I opened a bit more than a year ago, the full line of the block. The standing start of the new line is a two-mover about 8A+ itself. It was amazing to watch and spot him fighting through the problem! But not enough, there was still the unclimbed sit start of a problem called "Torrero" that i opened a couple of years ago, just 20 meters up the hill... After Martin figured out some really nice beta and unluckily fell really close to the top, Daniel managed to sneak one in once more and topped it out, creating "Slapshot", an absolutly classy line with cool moves on smooth rock. Martin soon followed, finished off the job and snabbed the second ascent minutes later. Nice work! It was really inspiring to see these two lines being done, I found them about more than 4 years ago, but just never had the motivation to try them properly. I can't wait to go back up there...

Thats one cool thing about bouldering, if a motivated crew gets psyched, beta will be found and suddenly almost impossible looking things become reality!!

I've put some shots of "American Gangster" in the Bouldering Gallery. Enjoy!

Emi

The Super-Tera-O-Mega Project

Today James, Martin and I were out in the Zillertal for a session at the Saustein, a nice wall with a grassy flat landing, close to the road, hosting some cool boulders and projects. The weather was nice and not too cold so we were all psyched to be outside and touch some rock. After a quick warmup we went over to the right side to try an old project that somehow didn't receive quiet a lot of attention in the past years but has been there from the very beginning of the crag and is actually quiet cool! Whilst I was struggling with one reachy move i couldn't do, Martin came pretty close to do it and James punted, falling off at the last tricky move... he kept it together though the next time he was up there and crushed it, nice job! After that James and I moved on leftwards to try Freezer, a fun one-mover-jump-thingy, around 8A. After not quiete hitting the jug you jump to right (kind of a pocket/slot), both of us finally stuck it and topped out. Meanwhile, Martin had a good, long rest for his final shot at the just opened "The Super-Tera-O-Mega Project". Pulling on again, he made it through all the hard part, finding himself on the last tricky move but made some mistake and his heel slipped out... Negative! Sure he'll piss it next time :) A pic of James on it can be seen in the bouldering Gallery just below. Nice day!

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Shots of bouldering action all over the place.