28 Mar MELLOBLOCCO 2014 is coming!
The detailed calendar of the 4 days of Melloblocco 2014, special guests – at the moment, Stefan Glowacz, Christian Core & Stella Marchisio, Steve Mclure, Barbara Zangerl, Sachi Amma, Mayan Smith Gobat, Ben Rueck, Alex Luger, Lukas Irmler, Steve Haston, Jacopo Larcher and Pietro Dal Prà, bouldering, prize-boulders, climbing marathon, shows, live-music, exhibitions, side-events, mellobaby, arrampic-abile, slack-line and much more:The events will take place at Melloblocco® Village, at Centro Polifunzionale della Montagna.
See website melloblocco.it
Wednesday, April 30th – Melloblocco® – Start!
5 pm Start of Melloblocco 2014 registrations
6:30 pm Opening of the exhibition AcquaMello – Watercolours by Kim Sommerschield
9 pm Melloblocco 2014 official opening
9:30 pm Live-music at Melloblocco Village
Thursday, May 1st – Melloblocco® – Sponsor Village
8:30 am Opening Melloblocco Village
9 am-6 pm Bouldering time
10 am-6 pm Judges at the prize-award boulders
7-8 pm Meetings, aperitifs, live-music at Melloblocco Village
8:30 pm adidas presents its athletes at Melloblocco
9 pm Steve McLure presents “A Window of Opportunity”, with Marmot
10 pm Jacopo Larcher presents “Zembrocal – back to La Reunion”
11 pm Dj Set at Melloblocco Village
Friday, May 2nd – Melloblocco® – Let’s go bouldering!
9 am-6 pm Bouldering time
10 am-6 pm Judges at the prize-award boulders
10 am-2pm “Mellobaby” meeting at Melloblocco Village
2-6 pm “Arrampicabile” meeting at Melloblocco Village
6:30 pm ERSAF-Comunità Montana- Riserva Val di Mello present the “CARIPLO Centro Polifunzionale Gym Project”, with aperitif
7 pm Meetings, aperitifs, live-music at Melloblocco Village
8:30-9 pm Steve Haston presents new Grivel gear
9 pm Stefan Glowacz presents “At the End of the World – on Baffin Island” with Marmot
10pm Mayan Smith Gobat, Ben Rueck &Sachi Amma present “Climbing around the world – Some insights from the adidas climbing team about their projects
11 pm Dj Set at Melloblocco Village
Saturday, May 3rd – Melloblocco® – Party
9 am-6 pm Bouldering time
10 am-6 pm Judges at the prize-award boulders
7-8 pm Meetings, aperitifs, live-music at Melloblocco Village
8:30 pm Pietro Dal Prà presents the new La Sportiva shoes and the “Sardinia Bloc Scouting” video
9 pm Christian Core and Stella Marchisio presents “I Core”, with Marmot
10 pm Barbara Zangerl, Alex Luger & Lukas Irmler present “Babsi Zangerl rocks the hard climbs” & “Alex Luger Austrian hard liner plus – Some insights into the slackline world!” with adidas
11 pm Melloblocco® Party
12 pm Dj Set at Melloblocco Village
Sunday, May 4th – Melloblocco® – The drawing of the curtains
9 am-3 pm Bouldering time
10 am-3 pm Judges at the prize-award boulders
3-5 pm Prize awarding ceremony, draw and closure of Melloblocco 2014
REGISTRATION AND PRE- REGISTRATION
Registration to Melloblocco®: the Event Office is at the Melloblocco Village at Centro Polifunzionale della Montagna in Filorera. Registration time: from 5 pm till to 10 pm of Wednesday, April 30th 2014 and from 8:30 am till to 10 pm the next days.
Registration fee: 15,00 € for the whole event.
With the registration you receive the “event kit”, a Melloblocco canvas bag containing a Melloblocco T-shirt, the map with the boulders chosen for the 2014 edition and the gadgets offered by the sponsors. Please keep the numbered coupon attached to the map for the Sunday price draw. Please note that wearing or carrying with you the Melloblocco T-shirt you are entitled to free rides on the Melloblocco shuttles to the bouldering areas and, last but not least, you help supporting the event.
Melloblocco is for all: a “meeting” of champs, athletes, amateurs and absolute beginners. There are about ten marked hard-to-extreme boulders for each category – women and men – with a prize money which is going to be divided among those who send them.
Handing out of the “event kit” until available (2.500 kits).
We warmly invite you to pre-register here. Your pre-registration helps us prepare the event and is not binding. A great plus for the climbers in the pre-registered list: you will enter the on-line draw.
TRANSPORT
Throughout the event, free-of-charge shuttle transfer for the Melloblocco® participants to the boulder areas: non stop from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.. Also, a minibus-shuttle service is granted from and to Morbegno railway station in the days of the event
