Font 2013: Part 5

After a few days of rain, we were back out at the boulders.  Most areas were still wet and snowy, but it turned out that Éléphant (the area closest to our gite) was the driest.  Here is Michele on Le Surplomb du Lépreux.

Lander on a "down-climb" on the kids circuit.  One of the coolest things about Fontainebleau are the kids circuits.  The problems are on perfectly petite sized boulders, and of course many of them have slides for "down-climbs."

# BestSpotEver - Conrad on spotter duty for Nora.  OK, not really.  He was just chilling on the pad far, far away from the problem Nora was trying.  He was not in danger, so don't press send on that hate email!

Ingar on Duroxmanie at Cuvier Est.  For the Goodhews' last day in the forest, we showed them around Bas Cuvier, which is the spiritual home of Fontainbleau climbing.  It tends to be a bit crowded, but the sheer amount of quality climbing is astounding.  

To celebrate the end of the Goodhews' trip, we had a desert party at our gite.  Everyone came over and we stuffed ourselves with treats - including crepes made by Ingar.

Lyn attempting to hold a classic Fontainebleau sloper at Bois Rond.  The top-outs can be pretty rounded, with only the friction of the sandstone allowing you to gain the summit.

Lyn really wanted to complete an entire circuit, so here she sets off on the "debut" problem on the blue circuit at Bois Rond.  This circuit has 34 problems ranging from 4- to 5+.

Ingar on the blue circuit doing a cool funnel shaped climb that took more finesse than strength.  

  

Lyn finishing the blue circuit by headlamp.  Thomasina showed up later and joined Lyn for the end of the circuit.  Since I was taking a rest day, it was nice for Lyn to have a "partner in crime" for the final climbs as her skin and muscles were pretty sore at that point.  It was her third day on after all...

A panoramic shot of Mont Ussy.  Kevin and Ingar looking at yet another hard red circuit problem.  Most of the red circuit problems we tried here were very perplexing.

Nora on a fun highball orange circuit problem at Mont Ussy.  We were able to squeeze a bit of climbing in before the rains started again...

-Raza