http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/images/stories/NewBox_black.png http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13577-the-elder-statesman-daniel-jung http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13577-the-elder-statesman-daniel-jung It is done! I sent The Elder Statesman on Friday. Some pain, a lot of blood and tape but it was a lot of fun!It's not a long route, but during the first 25 moves you need a lot of concentration. The wall isn't that steep and the holds are small and sharp. So its a lot of struggling with the skin and conditions. Handling this and being precise and concentrated is the main difficulty of the route I think.Markus Bock did the first ascent in 2011 and graded it 11/11+, so it is one of the three hardest... ]]> Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:32:00 -0400 13577 2012-10-25 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13577_dak-1351553976.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13577_da2k-1351553976.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13577_da3k-1351553976.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13347-frankenjura-dood-days-and-bad-days-chris-muench http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13347-frankenjura-dood-days-and-bad-days-chris-muench Last weekend (4th August - 5th August 2012), after all my exams at university where done, I started my holidays with a short trip to Frankenjura. But when we arrived it was just so hot that I couldn't climb very well and even had problems with my warm up routes...So we checked out "Kalte Wand", that I hadn't known before and which is a good summer crag. Being quite tired from all the heat, at least I could try the moves of "Intercooler" (8c+) an do some really nice climbs round 7a/7a+. The next day was a bit... ]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:08:00 -0400 13347 2012-08-10 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_fiveten-is-with-us--1344575300.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_good-times-outdoors-1344575301.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_i-love-coffee-1344575302.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_breakfast-and-stuff-1344575303.JPG http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13260-good-old-frankenjura-chris-muench http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13260-good-old-frankenjura-chris-muench About two weeks ago, I had a really nice weekend in Frankenjura together with some good friends.Even if there was no hard climbing, I had fun onsighting and flashing a couple of things. Amongst others, I flashed Nullkommanix (8a) and did an awesome 7c+ arete (see pictures).In the evening, we went to a public viewing spot in Nürnberg to whatch Germany vs Greece. So much fun we had there!!!The next day was for bouldering on hard things. So I had a look into Shangri-La (9a) - really good but so much endurance that you need there :)Nevertheless I'm keen... ]]> Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:49:00 -0400 13260 2012-07-13 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-3530-1342183786.gif http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-3533-1342183786.gif http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-3709-1342183787.gif http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-3801-2-1342183787.gif http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12109-frankenjura-and-esino-gabriele-moroni http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12109-frankenjura-and-esino-gabriele-moroni Hey everybody! Sorry for the lack of updates but during september I've been on the road alot!First in Finale Ligure where I've been routesetting for the Finale For Nepal bouldering competition...3 days of hard work in the heat but it was well worth it! The comp was a great success and everybody liked our boulder problems!... ]]> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:52:00 -0400 12109 2011-10-07 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_1_1317973960.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_3_1317973960.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_6_1317973961.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_5_1317973962.JPG