The next level posted on April, 2016   This past winter, my main goal was to climb a route graded M14. In my previous trip to Colorado one year before I had already tried a great route called "The Mustang" but that time I did not feel well physically, so I decided to come back to the Amphitheatre in Vail this January and give it another try. This amazing route starts on a waterfall called "Seventh Tentacle", graded WI5 and of 20 meter hight. On Top of this it goes into the roof and traverses the whole cave for a 20 meter of completely horizontal climbing, before finishig on some thin ice. A total of 45 meters of climbing, so it can be called quite an endurance route. Already at the warm-up climb i felt much better than the previous year and the second day I could climb flash the route "Reverse Stratofortress", M12+, which was the hardest flash climb ever for me. This route that crosses half of the roof, linked toghether with "the Lightning", gives "the Mustang", M14-. The fourth day of climbing at this crag I could climb the whole Mustang and was super happy. Back home I had another project waiting for me. "Low G man", situated in my home crag Iseo, had been established by the strong French climber Jeff Mercier last year and links a route with a very long single move, with the upper part of "Kamasutra", of which I had done the first ascent in 2014. I had previously tried the single crux but was not able to do the move. I could get the hold but not take the ice axe off the other hold. I was too treched, so I thought I was simply too small to do the route. But I did not want to believe that I was not able to do the route, so I tried again this winter and found a solution with my legs. So it was possible! After a not so satisfying home competition in Rabenstein I brought our visiting American friends Ryan and Susan to climb in Iseo. The anger about my failing in the comp was still inside me and beeing very motivated, I did a very good attempt. I suprised myself just climbing past the crux move and then on for all the overhanging upper part, until a hole broke just a few meters before the anchor where you are already on easier terrain. So another failing. The next day a trip to the famous French DryTooling Mekka L'Usine was on the program and I was really psyched to climb there for the first time. Thanks to the perfect tips of the local Gaetan Raymond I was able to flash "Next level", D13 and so to increase my flash level a second time in one season! This gave me the right motivation to try again "Low G man" and I managed to clip the anchor of this, for me for sure not much congenial and so even more satisfying route, graded D14. Photos Zach Mahone, Pierre Chauffour and Monia Gaibotti back