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Re: [kachoong] WORST city for a climber?:
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sbaclimber
Jan 10, 2011, 8:35 PM
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kachoong wrote: qwert wrote: kachoong wrote: majid_sabet wrote: kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours. how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ? Do you mean the Troll wall in Norway? There are walls in the alps closer but I think it's about 1700km including a ferry crossing. While those distances might sound not to bad from an american perspective, for europe this is as bad as it gets (if you ignore the Ith, but that is probably going to be restricted for the dutch anyways ;) ) if you take into account that you can get from the north to the south shore of the continent in way under 20 hours. I need at minimum 2 hours to get to the alps, and that is way too much ... qwert two hours? No need to squeeze lemon on it! Heh! It's all relative though, eh? Yeah, it definitely is. I still find it funny how many people think a 2 hour drive is "long". I am absolutely stoked to be within 1.5-2 hrs from 2 huge, and a couple smaller, but still very good, climbing areas. (one of them being the Harz, incidentally) ...not to mention quite a few other crags even closer. It must be the american in me, but I am more than happy to drive 1.5-2 hrs each way for a day in the Frankenjura or Elbsandsteingebirge...or even the Harz or Erzgebirge...
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