June 4 was Krissy’s birthday. We took a rest day and just hung out in Fontainebleau. Her birthday present was us buying two large coffees from a café in Font and then visiting a few bakeries and choosing something from each of them. Then we went back home (our tent) and cooked an extra large supper of pasta, potatoes and canned ham. Desert was some of the pastries we bought during the day. This was followed by watching arrested development on our laptop under the stars, laying on crash pads. Oh, and Krissy nearly managed to finish a whole baguette on her own in under an hour.
Yesterday (June 7), Krissy managed to finish her project in Franchard Isatis that she worked for two days - her longest project ever. We don’t yet know what it is called or how hard it is, but it is a pretty neat problem out a very steep boulder. The video kinda shows what it is like. After Krissy finished her project I had planned to climbed, but as I started warming up the rains started. Then it hailed. Then it rained more. So we just checked out a couple of new boulders that we may go back two in the next few days.
Today we got up early and headed to Trois Pignons. I wanted to work on L’integral and Eclipse again. But, same story, as we warmed up it started raining. So we headed back to the car for a hot chocolate and a snack. Krissy is also apparently using our down time right now for a nap in the car. It is looking like no climbing again for today…Hopefully tomorrow.
The video shows Krissy’s project and a super cool easier problem called Le Statique at Franchard Isatis. I tried Le Statique when I was here a few years ago and I remember it feeling very hard. I was able to actually climb it this time. I remember seeing it in old Pusher ads when I first started climbing, so I have always wanted to climb it.
Photos:
Ben in Barbizon
Nail crimping on Duel (8A slab)
Birthday food
Krissy on steep problem in Franchard Cusiniere
Ben on Le Statique
Some random stuff:
Baguettes are good
Nuttela is good
Hail is bad
Rain is bad
Font slopers are good
Font features are good
Font foot holds are bad
Font friction is bad
Pain au chocolat is good
Allergies are bad
Bugs in tents are bad
Birthdays in France are good
Completing projects is good
Emails from home are good
Sleeping in everyday is good
Climbing is good
Rest days are bad
Being in Europe for the whole summer is good.
cool problem krissy, congrats on getting it!
ReplyDeleteJill,
ReplyDeleteYou are like our number one blog checker...you win a free tour of font when you get here!
Why is Markus not going to Euro?
Ben,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see where Le Statique starts. I was trying it again last year but from the lower left start and couldn't manage to send.
Woo sweet prize! Maybe I just spend too much time on the internet....
ReplyDeleteI climbed Le statique from one of the lower starts - it is definately much harder like that. I saw some locals doing it from this higher start.
ReplyDelete3 things: loving the canned ham as part of a romantic dinner... way to set the bar high
ReplyDelete2nd, it's "dessert"... double S = double sweetness... seriously, where did you go to school?
3rd, i better see some serious Foam Fingering on TV from the (Bob Roll) 'Tour Day France'... you've been named the "Technical Cornering Specialist"... pedals down, ALL the time