Today it is HOT, like 37C hot - without humidity! We got up late, had a slow breakfast, edited a short climbing video and looked at some of the photos we have taken the last few days. It is way too hot to do anything. At this moment we are sitting at Franchard Isatis waiting for the temperature to go down so we can hopefully climb this evening. You sweat just sitting here…Hopefully these temperatures will pass in the next few days so we can try and finish off some harder projects. If the weather doesn’t cool we will probably head to the mountains and higher elevations in search of better conditions.
Yesterday we climbed at the Cul de Chien area in Trois Pignons. There were so many climbers there it was crazy. The were actually a lot of older climbers there, probably in their 50’s and 60’s, many of whom could climb pretty hard. When I got on the Cul de Chien later in the afternoon there had to have been like 30 people around the problem. It was like climbing for an audience. The Cul de Chien is definitely one of the most fun problems I have ever done. I knew about the problem before getting France, but I did not realize the move you do to get out the roof using a heel hook involved a mono! So you go from a jug to a mono to a three finger pocket to a jug all over a perfect sand landing in the middle of the forest. I actually climbed it twice I thought it was so fun.
Now off for more relaxing and waiting for the temperature to cool down.
These are some photos from the last couple of days. Franchard Isatis, Cul de Chien, and Fontainebleau.
