But see self, first day:

And the second day:

Last but not least I was routesetting with Korni Obleitner at the Outdoor Trade-fare Friedrichshafen for the Final Rockshow Event. Was a lot of fun and a good event!

Here’s the last clip from the Outdoor Trade-fare:

And here is more at the Salewa-Team YouTube Channel.

By now the north mountain is limited to 80 people, first come, first serve. We had no reservation back in the day so we skipped Hueco and went to Utah. But now I made it again to the Sates with Emi Moosburger and Ingo Filzwieser. We inhaled some classics, Emi did some old old projects from a previous trip and so we are ready to rock now.

Here is some Hipstomatic stuff I shot with the iPhone. Not much climbing but thats not my business on this trip.

The urban style pics are around the place where the gym is located. Nice neighborhood what?

I checked two flights for 50 € each to Bukarest. We got ripped of by the first man who saw us coming out of the arrival. It was a Taxi driver who swear by his mother that he will be the most cheapest option to go to the train station. We paid 80 Lei, like 20 € both, like way to much, like the metro is 1,50 €.

We want to go to Brasov. A nice town in the middle of Romania. It’s batland, I mean it’s in Transilvania just 30 min by car away from Dracula’s Castle. We had full moon, perfect … as far as I now the werewolfes are out on full moon battling against vampires. So best time to go there, the monsters are busy and tourist attraction is garantied!

But things went another way. We survived te train ride … main doors were opened during the three hours from Bukarest to Brasov, was close to Austrian trains. In Brasov we got picked up by Bogdan, a friend who runs the climbing gym there. He’s riding a Mercedes SUV, that’s my style! next day was route setting from 10am until 12pm for 20 boulders. 4 men + 4 women qualifications, 4 men semifinals and 4 men + 4 women finals. Flo had some serious near-death experiences with the ladder. I had some safe distance when he crashed down for a couple of times. We felt into sleep before we could even hear the werewolfes, fuck.

Next day qualification day means another day in the gym until midnight and no werewofes. Sunday was the day of the finals and the guys looked really tired. The were parting the whole night long without us routesetters. They better invite us the next time before we modify the routes slightly to their disadvantages.

But it went all good after another day in the gym. The ladys and boys were motivated as hell and they rocked the hose. Did I mention that the gym is located in between an old munition factory? Looks crazy. Pictures will come soon!

That’s all we saw from Romania. Three days of gym climbing and a hell of a ride from Brasov to Bukarest by Minibus. Bu I will go there again to see more of of it soon!

DeWalt DC845KB Impact Driver

I have got a new tool to play with and i have tested it for sure. The DeWalt DC845KB Cordless Impact Driver 12V!

I had some weird pain in climbing routesetting because of some typist’s cramp injury on my left wrist since last march. It was getting more worst when I was setting a lot of routes last fall and this winter. I decided to check an impact wrench to force healing my wrist. It’s still not a good feeling every time I pull on the Allen Key and with the impact driver I for sure feel nothing at all.

So this was the first reason I bought it and the second is I’m much faster now!

What about performance? It’s loud 90dB … but I’m not recognizing it, it’s just a few seconds every time and not louder than driving an old car. Two battery packs were included. I can set a whole day bouder routes with one pack or about 6 to 8 routes depending on their length. Batteries are fully loaded in about 20 minutes, nice.

I bought the lightest model with the 12V motor. They have much stronger ones but I was really surprised that this thing can deal with a friends 18V Makita. The mass is 1,7kg. I can easily hang it on my harnest with the attached clip when I set through the rope.

For me it was a very good investment. My wrist is getting better and I can use the battery packs to run my CableCam for filming too.

I tested my Cablecam last weekend on the set of Keep It Slack within filming the guys on a high-line.

Some new experience in filming is the new project. A film called ‘KEEP IT SLACK – action based slackline tutorial’ with Reinhard Kleindl. The film will be based on his new Book ‘SLACKLINE – die kunst des modernen seiltanzen‘ which will be released in german end of spring 2010. Almost everything is filmed now and when we have the last few shots I will upload the trailer. Stay tuned for that, I guess it will be worth it! The release Date of the film is still not set but will be end of spring or summer begin.

You can then watch Reini and some other Liners on the Jump Line with stunning action, on the Highline above deep ground, describing complicated tricks in easy ways and much more.

Some shots what will be in the book as stills: