Rock climbing has restarted full bore after a spell of rain. We finally had a few days with a proper circuit warm-up on dry boulders! It was amazing! For the first two weeks we didn’t have a 24 hour period without some type of precipitation so it feels great to finally have multiple days with sunny skies!
Kevin on Misericorde 7c+
The climbing here is great, the rock is awesome and there are so many boulders it’s unreal. Warming up at Isatis is a blast. There are so many easy problems that you can get a good flow on the rock and try to maintain that fluid movement as you start working on harder climbs. When it’s cold and dry, the rock is very sticky but not nearly as grippy as the rock in the southeast, especially the feet. Pof has been used extensively here for quite some time which has done a number on the rock. Pof is a resin that climbers have used here to help their feet stick to the rock. From what I hear it works well in the short term, unfortunately the long term result is slippery black rock that is very hard for your rubber to stick to.
Leslie on Misericorde 7c+
Leslie on Poussif 7a+
Guillome on Poussif 7a+
Titouan playing with chalk
Larchant
A few words from Les:
Alex has switched into full crush mode… He’s too modest to tell you so I will. Every problem he gets on gets done with the quickness, unless it’s a 6a warmup at Isatis.
Like Alex said earlier, the weather has switched from relentless and crappy to beautiful and inspiring. Conditions could not be better. The rock glitters in the sun as if it is begging to be climb.
A restday in Paris was in tall order, so the crew buckled up and cruised up the A6 to the magical land of:
Guys in really short shorts
People sitting on stairs in a fashionable manner
Amazing Sites
AKA the Notre Dame
Justin enjoying a falafel
The infamous Almond Croissant (worth the trip to France)
Sundev staring curiously at security camera
We also visited the catacombs which was pretty mindblowing.
Catacombs
Catacombs
Until next post…
Au revior.
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