• When?
  Saturday, May 13, 2006
• Location:
  At the Schaefer's BB-facility behind sectors Ramstein and Waterworld.

• They do it again!
  After the great success of last year's Ettringen climbing party the team around "Stonelove" Marc Wolff goes for a seconds strike and presents the kick-off party for of the basalt season.
  Be prepared for:
  • Live Musik by 2Reno (Cologne)
  • Slackline
  • Multimedia contest with lots of awards
  • Basalt beer
  • The legendary Gummiesel-Awards!
  • Bungee running
• Multimedia-Contest:
  Open for everone with the categories aural, audio or video.
  You have always longed for citing Luis Trenker, chant his "Bergvagabunden" song or you secretly write alpine poems? This is your stage, man! The totally independent jury ranks your performance and rewards your courage.
  (please apply by email!!!)
  At the same time, the three winners of the stone videos video contest will be awarded.
• Overnight stay is possible for 5 €.
• Fire wood, char coal, beer and sausages/meat are available.
  BYO for salat, bread and veggi food.

More info onwww.stonevibes.de and www.klettern-ettringen.de (in German)

• The current issue of "Klettern" features photo of Annelie Hamm in Hainstadt (Odenwald) in their gallery.
  photo: Alex Wenner

• Thomas Klingelschmidt & Jean Marc Winckel repeated« Orange Amer » 8a in Kronthal.
• Jean Bassa climbed „Mythoman“ 8a in Gueberschwihr.
• Tom Braun did „ Carmina Burana“ 8a in Kronthal

• Pump yourself up for the new bouldering saison with the palatinum arts 2006 calender.
  The last copy are available at the palatinum.info web shop.

• when?
  Thursday, March 23 März, 8:00 pm
• where?
  engelhorn Logistic Center
  Mannheim Neckarau
  

• Extreme climberGerlinde Kaltenbrunner, the first woman to crest nine of the highest peaks on earth (all without additional oxygen supply!) shows her new slideshow
  
  "Unterwegs über 8000m"
  
  palatinum.info staff tip: Don't miss it!

• Pascal Schouwink managed the first ascend of a new boulder at Wartenberg. He rated "Koru" Fb.8b/b+. Should the rating proove to be realistic, "Koru" would be the most difficult Pfalz boulder at present.
  Pascal Schouwink:
  „Sit down start on the right side of the boulder near the valley, left hand takes a side hold, right hand the big crimp. Just as a reminder: Sandstone is very fragile under wet conditions, even when the surface looks dry. So, people who want to go for it should only try if there was no rain to make sure that this topboulder problem can still be done in the next years.“

• Loic Fossard, Florent Wolff and Thomas Wendling on boulder tour in Pfalz.
  Loic bouldered:
  
  • Bona fide 7b+ trav' (flash)
  • Haute couture 7c trav' (flash)
  • Mooshammer 7a+ (flash)
  • Hugo 7b
  • Chalayan 7a
  • Kurze traverse 7a+ trav' (flash)
  • Galet noir 7b (flash)
• In the meantime, Thomas and Florent repeated Hugo 7b, Thomas in addition „BB volant“ 7b in Oberbronn.

• Julien Anderlini climbed “Insomnie“, a new 8a combination of the routes „l'Aven Armand” 7c+ (start) and Téléphérique (exit).
• Michael Stöckel repeated the classic „le theatre du no“ 8b.
• Julian Panigot repeated „Le Cretin“ 8b/b+.
• Thomas Gabriel repeated „La taille et la gamelle“ 8a.

• Olivier Froideval:
• Santa linya: Koala 8a+, Air Line 8a, paris y cia 8a, Devorah Hombres 8a, Devorah Hombres 8a, Trio Ternura 8a
• Saint llorenc de mongai: el legionaro 8a
• Bruixes: Latido de mielo 8a
• Pierre Bollinger:
  • A 8a on sight, 2 x 8a at the frist attempt, one 8a+, one 8b at the first attempt and in the end a 8b+.

• Sebastian Gerber flashed "Lapin ou Canard" Fb 7A, "Rétablissement" Fb 7A, "Hueco Départ" Fb 7A+ and climbed "Noir Désir gauche" Fb 7B.
• Christoph Gabrysch flashed"Rétablissement" Fb 7A and repeated "Noir Désir gauche" Fb 7B and "Froggy Dick" Fb 7B.
• Thomas Schwender and Janek Altmaier flashed "Lapin ou Canard" Fb 7a, too.

• when?
  Thursday, March 23, 2006, from 6:00 pm
• where?
  Climbing Center The Rock, Karlsruhe
• Red Chili offers free testing of they wide range of excelletn climbing shoes. Grab a pair and check them out!
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• Plastic climber Hannes Schilling and his mate Stefan Gernert used the chilly winter weather for an ice climbing trip to Lechtal.
  At the "Faule Wand" area in Hornbachtal, they did the first ascent of "The Milagro Beanfield War", a route with a total length of 200m (600ft).
  The first 40m are followed by a 70m long snow filled depression and the main part a 85° slope and a length of 110m. The tour got a rating of WI 5. The even in step passages snow covered ice made it a hard piece of work.
  
  Topo and detailed description can be found in the ice climbing guide "Eiskalt 3" (Panico-Verlag) for which Stefan Gernert is once again writing the Lechtal section.
• How to get on site:
  Drive from Lechtal to Hornbachtal. Follow the road past Hinterhornbach to the end. Take the nodic skiing tracks (ski!) until you see the waterfall on the left hand side (approx. 1.5 h).

• Thomas Wendling again bouldered lots of Pfalz classics:
• Mülhenberg:
  On a walkabout 7b+ trav
  Running up that hill 7a+ trav
  Burning fingers 7a+
• Husarenfelsen:
  Cornerfight 7a
  Yellow corner 7a
  Softcore 7a+ trav
• Hintere Otterfelsen:
  Gepresster Saftsack 7a
  Pusher 7b
• Jurassic Park:
  T-Rex 7b
  

• palatinum.info webmaster und cameraman Kai Richelsen spent two weeks in India shooting a documentary about the first hot air balloons ever seen in the skies of Radjasthan.
  Enjoy the enchanted people and take a look at this small clip Kai prepared:
  
  watch the clip (wmv, 9.5 MB)

• The Red chili BOulder Cup Finals 05 / 06 were again hosted by The Rock in Karlsruhe.
  The 25 partially quite longish boulder problems had been prepared with great enthusiam by Alex, Axel, Elke, Julius and other creatives. All climbings styles from tricky horizontal moves to giant dynamo were tested.
  Hard-fought, too, were the additional scores of the event "table boulder".
  The following free beer, donated by the Hoepfner brewery, and spicy chilli con carne by Axel Kunzmann refueled all drained energies before the winners were awarded with gear of Marmot and Red Chili.
  
  

• Climbing center The Rock in Karlsruhe externded their playground aside the usual climbing activities. Besides campus board and rope ladder, a 7 m (21 ft) slackline calls for balancing.
  
  poto links: Alex Wenner "slacked" in The Rock.