tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84692746352006873202023-11-16T08:39:14.360+01:00BouldersgateDaniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1072125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-25087934752596849222016-07-21T21:23:00.001+02:002016-07-22T06:57:10.342+02:00Frankenjura I'm back in Sweden after a couple of weeks in Germany where me and my
friend Erik Massih stayed and climbed in Frankenjura. It was my first
time in this renowned area and it was truly inspiring to check out some
milstones in the history of climbing. It is mindblowing to think of how
far a head in the evolution of the sport pioneers like Wolfgang Güllich was, when climbing routes like<i> Action direct </i>and <i>Wallstreet</i>. I
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<i>Johan Larsson looking for the right pockets to grab on an onsight burn on Entsafter 8+/7a+.</i></div>
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<i>Scheufele und knödeln - A bavarian specialty perfect for poor climbingbums like us. Not only was it more than plenty to recover from a full day of climbing, it kept me full the </i><i>entire next day. </i></div>
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<i>In the week we where hanging out in Frankenjura I think I ate more sweet cherries than I had before in my entire life. </i><br />
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-85961903694773260082016-06-11T09:42:00.000+02:002016-06-11T09:42:34.068+02:00Morocco<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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Morocco with my friends at <a href="http://rojksuperwear.com/" target="_blank">Röjk superwear</a>. There was me and a group
of six amazing people that went travelling across the country to
gather photos and videos to show Röjk's next year's summer collection.
Between riding camels in the Sahara, exploring old ruins in
Ouarazazate, haggling at the local markets and chilling by the ocean
in Essoueira, we also managed to fit one day of climbing in Todra
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local climber and author of a “guidebook” to the area, Hassan
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person we bumped into when entering a coffeehouse in the village
Tigui, at the entrance to the gorge. He sold me a topo that looks
like no other and then showed us to a sector where we could climb in
the prevailing heat. Although it was way out of season, I was really
stoked to be in the beautiful canyon. Huge, red limestone cliffs are
shooting up towards the sky on both sides of a winding road that goes
along the river through the gorge. There are more than 600 routes, so
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Stay tuned for some excellent photos
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and <a href="http://rickardcroy.wix.com/rickard-croy-media" target="_blank">Rickard Croy’s</a> video from the trip. In the meantime, I strongly suggest you check
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-78953000684956647532016-05-18T13:25:00.003+02:002016-05-18T13:27:17.831+02:00Wild thing 7C, Åkers<div style="text-align: center;">
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-7513623781481027302016-05-11T19:50:00.002+02:002016-05-11T19:50:51.647+02:00El toro 7C<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>Thom Hörnström working <a href="https://27crags.com/crags/brommablocken/routes/el-toro-21032" target="_blank">El toro 7C</a> in Bromma. A three star climb situated just </i><br />
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-12712132111243384102016-04-20T20:23:00.000+02:002016-04-20T20:23:46.721+02:00Mad hooker 7A+, Linköping<div style="text-align: center;">
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-28386481237358491652016-03-28T09:02:00.001+02:002016-03-28T09:02:38.664+02:00Pasila invitationalLast week I visited my friends at <a href="http://www.boulderkeskus.com/fi/" target="_blank">Boulderkeskus</a> in Helsinki. I was there to set boulders for <a href="http://boulderliiga.fi/" target="_blank">Pasila invitational (Finish boulder league final)</a> together with Tonde Katiyo, Rustam
Gelmanov and local setters Olli Antikainen, Anssi Venho and Marko Siivinen. It was a very good experience in many ways. I learned a lot working with these guys and gathered tons of inspiration for future work. <a href="https://vimeo.com/alvi" target="_blank">Alvi Pakarinen</a> put together a very nice video about the event.
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-49690698945574291502015-12-31T11:58:00.001+01:002015-12-31T11:59:11.627+01:002015Another 365 days goes by and so it's time for me to put down some thoughts from the year. I almost forgot this little tradition of mine this time, as I did not reflect over the fact that a whole year already passed. Anyways, 2015 has been good. I enjoy everyday life in Stockholm, working as a routesetter. The possibilities there is for training is a major reason to why I really like it. It's been a great asset having all the well-maintained gyms around when trying to recover from the quiet severe finger injury I suffered last autumn.<br />
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I spent most of the year climbing indoors, the first half focusing mainly on rehabilitating. I have come a long way from where I was a year ago, although there still is a long way to go. <a href="http://blodsvettokrita.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">Carlos</a> has given me great support and for that I'm extremely thankful. Without him I would probably still be injured. <b><br /></b><br />
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I've put down some goals for myself for next year. It's been a while since I had those so it's about time, and I'm really looking forward to working towards achieving them. I'm hoping to travel a bit more, maybe go back across the Atlantic. But I also want to do more climbing around Stockholm and Uppsala (on rock that is). The few times I made it out since I moved there, I always spotted climbs that I really want to get on.<br />
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<i>Fredrik Sydstrand trying to figure out the beta for Stefan Eklund's latest addition to the bouldering around Uppsala, <a href="http://27crags.com/crags/focksta/routes/shoryuken" target="_blank">Shoryuken</a> in Focksta.</i></div>
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"It's not like you wasted your time" was Said's respons to my complaints over how fast six weeks go by. I guess it's true as time seems to accelerate along with how much I enjoy myself. I can't think of any trip I made where I experienced as much and met so many new friends. Not once have I been bored or felt that I had to come up with something to do. The few times when we sat still for a change, I actually relished, which is rather unusual for being me. </div>
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The last couple of days in Boulder were nice and kinda relaxed. We did some climbing in <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/clear-creek-canyon/105744243" target="_blank">Cleer creak canyon</a> (<a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/primo-wall/105744720" target="_blank">Primowall</a> is AWESOME) and bouldered in <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/flagstaff/105744225" target="_blank">Flagstaff</a>. Most of the time however were spent hanging out with friends, enjoying just being around. </div>
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<i>Christian Griffith repeating <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/undercling-traverse/105749225" target="_blank">Undercling traverse</a> at Flagstaff. A problem that he climbed "perhaps about a 1000 times", to use his own words. </i></div>
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Normaly when a trip comes to an end I'm pretty tired and can see some bright sides about being back home. This time is no different in terms of me being tired, but not of travelling, so I could just as well have taken some rest in Boulder and then kept going. But I guess I will have to get used to the thought of climbing in minus degrees around Stockholm for a while, which is also quite nice. Only not as nice as climbing in Rifle or Smith. </div>
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-89279403116237311232015-11-21T18:32:00.001+01:002015-11-21T18:32:56.227+01:00Back to Boulder<div dir="ltr">
So came the day when it was time to move on from <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/smith-rock/105788989" target="_blank">Smith Rock</a>. I would have loved to stay longer, but as we had two weeks of good weather that over our last couple of days in the area turned pretty grim, I felt alright leaving. </div>
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<i>Said working <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/scarface/105891749" target="_blank">Scarface</a>, one of many classic Smith testpieces. Seing how much climbing has been moving forward in the last years, it's amazing that Scott Franklin put up this hard route already back in 1987.</i></div>
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In the end I'm quite happy with the techy sandstone-routes I managed to get up. It's by no means anything to brag about, but I think I did close to the best I could considering the shape I'm in. I climbed some of the routes I'd been wanting to get on, including some ultra classics like <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/chain-reaction/105789917" target="_blank"><i>Chain reaction</i></a>, <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/churning-in-the-wake/105876765" target="_blank"><i>Churning in the wake</i></a>, <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/kings-of-rap/105877262" target="_blank"><i>Kings of rap</i></a> and <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/darkness-at-noon/106070861" target="_blank"><i>Darkness at noon</i></a>. The perhaps best of them was<a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/darkness-at-noon/106070861" target="_blank"><i> Darkness at noon</i></a>. 30 meters sustained, technical climbing up a beautiful vertical to slightly overhanging wall, makes for one of my all time favorites. Smith is packed with quality climbs like that, in varried difficulties. Many of them I would love to get on and I hope to be back soon, as psyched but much stronger.</div>
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<i>Yours truly climbing <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/churning-in-the-wake/105876765" target="_blank">Churning in the wake</a>. Photo: <a href="http://www.said-belhaj.com/" target="_blank">Said Belhaj</a>. </i></div>
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Since we left Smith on monday night we passed trough Salt lake city to re-visit some friends and then headed to <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/moab-area/105716711" target="_blank">Moab</a> for the second time this trip. Down there we got a bit of climbing in at <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/potash-road/105716778" target="_blank">Potach road</a> and also spent a day squeezing our selfs (litterly spoken) up chimneys to the top of <a href="https://www.mountainproject.com/v/kor-ingalls-route/105717289" target="_blank">Castleton tower</a>. A very unigue and frightening experience as I have no trust in my own abilties placing gear. </div>
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As from last night we are back in Boulder where the trip began six weeks ago. I can't believe we only have a few more days before flying home. If I could I would cancel my ticket and stay here climbing until I'd get borred with it, which would probably be never. But every trip comes to an end and to see something good about that, it means I can start planning the next one.</div>
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-25733500771516831462015-11-13T05:14:00.000+01:002015-11-21T18:23:43.147+01:00Said just do(es) it<div dir="ltr">
I really admire Said's drive and motivation. During our time here in Smith he's climbed so many routes. Regardless of the difficulty, he walks up to whatever he finds appealing and most of the times, does it in a couple of goes. He is by no means chasing numbers. In Smith he's rather been chasing classics. A route that he's been talking about ever since we left Sweden some weeks ago, is "Just do it" on The Monkeyface. It might be the best line in Smith and also happens to be that hardest. The route was put up by Jean-Baptiste Tribout back 1992 and has an iconic status among the gems of the area. Over the last almost two weeks, we made the heinous walk over the hill a couple of times for him to try the route. Each time, he dogged up it once. No more. He's been saying that he wants to save his skin for the redpoint attempt. Only to walk back over the hill to climb a couple of "easy" classics. </div>
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Today he met up with an old friend that offered to come belay him on the route. I was glad not to have to fill my legs with lactic acid and stay on the route I was working and get my forearms pumped instead. But when Said came back with a smile on his face, I wished I'd went along to witness an amazing achivement!</div>
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Daniel Olaussonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697972249968828996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8469274635200687320.post-60189978200872818012015-11-10T05:15:00.000+01:002015-11-21T18:23:58.993+01:00Smith RockSince a bit more than a week, we are in Smith Rock, Oregon. So far we've managed to climb six full days, which is just about as much as my skin has been able to take, perhaps a bit to much acually. The rock here is sharp, but a side from that this place is incredible in many ways. The area is beautiful, the climbing is awesome and so far, weather has been good pretty much the whole time (except for at one point when a halestorm came in just as I was doing a burn on a route a was trying).<br />
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It's hard to know where to start with so many good routes to try. I would love to spend some time on some (for me) slightly harder climbs, at the same time as there are tons of moderate stuff that I also want to do. I was hoping that I would be able to do a bit better here than I have in the areas we been to before on this trip, seing how the style of climbing here should suite me really well. But the last year of injuries, laziness and being <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">undisciplined seems to haunt me here also. Still, it's good to travel as it gives me even more motivation than I had before we went on this trip, to keep climbing and get back to (and beyond) where I was a couple of years ago. </span></span><br />
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