Font 2013: Part 2

One of the nice things about staying in Larchant is the daily trips to the boulangerie.  Unfortunately, the one a block away from our gite is closed for a week, but that just means we go to the boulangerie a few towns over in Ury for our daily dose of baguette, pain au chocolate and croissant amande. Fortunately, everything is quite delicious there!

Nora has been showing us a thing or two about climbing in Font. Her extensive experience climbing on these sandstone boulders is evident as she sends most problems with authority as we all struggle to follow her to the summit.  It's most impressive.

Conrad has been spending every climbing day in his green bean atmosphere suit - (Thanks Kelly and Steve!!!) - as the temperature rarely goes above 5 degrees celsius and has hovered at 1 most of the time.    

This super fun problem is in the 95.2 area, one of the few dry areas we found after it finally stopped snowing and raining. Rebecca climbed it with style once a secret hand jam was discovered.  Woohoo! Hand jamming in Font!

French people take cereal very seriously. This means that about half the cereal in the cereal aisle contains chocolate. I appreciate this greatly. 

Check it people - Rebecca mastering the Font top out!  We all spent our third climbing day at Franchard Isatis and Cuisiniere.  We warmed up at Isatis on the many excellent blue and red circuit problems.

Okay, here's Ingar who really has the Font top outs wired.  Give him a couple bad slopers and he knows what to do.

It seems like Mike's goal on this trip is to get to the top of the most number of boulders possible.  So far he is doing an excellent job achieving that goal.

Cool slopers on this top out and lots of high stepping.

Mike and Donn were able to achieve an important Font milestone by climbing beurre-marga, one of the slickest and trickiest 6b+ problems in Font.  Don't let the "easy" grade fool you.  This one kicks most people's butt, including mine.

We ended the day in Cuisiniere on the Beetlejuice and Excalibur boulders.  Though Donn and Rebecca came close to sending, only Mike was able to complete Beetlejuice this day, but check back as there's a good chance of more sendage.

Shopping in Fontainebleau. This is the "big city" as compared to all the little towns where we climb and stay while in France.  Today, I picked up some of the amazing Fontainbleau cheese (essentially whipped cream, but better and spreadable on baguette), a few organic vegetables from the one all-organic store, Naturalia, and a loaf of Flute Gana, a bread that Paul and I remember fondly from our previous trips since it is baked fresh in the afternoon and when we pick it up after climbing it's still warm. It rarely makes it back to the gite in one piece. 

Cool living wall at the front of the Naturalia store. Paul hates this place since everything is so expensive.  Okay, not really.

-Lyn