Just like every year, the Eastern weekend will be overcrowded with climbers from all over Europe, even the world.
It always announces the start of the "tourist season".
As usual, it's also the weekend where Black Diamond organises the yearly "Chasin' The Rubbish" event.
For 4 days in a row, each day, a Black Diamond van and crew will be present on the parking of a popular area, handing out trash bags, asking everyone to take their rubbish with them and clean up any rubbish they can find. It results every year in tons and tons of rubbish being collected in just those 4 days.
Planning is as follows ...
- Friday, Franchard Isatis
- Saturday, Bas Cuvier
- Sunday, Roche aux Sabots
- Monday, Elephant
And even though we all should be familiar with the rules, ethics, guidelines, or whatever you want to call it, they are ...
- No fires
- Stay on trails
- No wild camping
- Bury human waste
- Brush off tickmarks
- Clean your climbing shoes
- Take your rubbish with you
It are simple basic principles, but every day out there in the forest, one can see that for some it is not that obvious or they are forgotten.
It's nice of Black Diamond to organise such events, but on the other hand it's a shame that they even have to organise them. In an ideal world it wouldn't be necessary.
The long weekend however is sadly enough announced to be one with a lot of rain.
Up to now, it looks like only Saturday will be dry. Good for my colleague Harco, who will visit the forest and only planned to climb on that day.
Knowing about the weather forecast, I stopped a bit earlier at work today, so I could have a small dose of climbing. It is after all, a real but healthy addiction!!
"Découverte Elément Terre" in Apremont Butte aux Dames has a weird crouching start, and you're not allowed to use both pedestals.
Not very nice, as it's hard to try to avoid them. Anyway, this one goes in my category "been there, done that".
Fontainebleau - Apremont Butte aux Dames - Découverte Elément Terre 7A+
After that I quickly went up on the other hill. The one of Apremont Buvette.
Even though I had walked there a lot, now it was the first time for climbing. It's the kind of area that you'ld better avoid in the weekends because it can be crowded with hikers, strollers and their kids.
I chose "Polêmikôs" mainly because, according to the description, it would be a boulder easy enough to locate.
Indeed, I more or less walked straight to it. I can imagine on the other hand, that in a few weeks, when the vegetation starts growing again, it will be much less easy to find.
I was a bit surprised by how nice the roof looked, but I was even more surprised with the beauty of the problem.
I enjoyed every move in it!
Even though I had walked there a lot, now it was the first time for climbing. It's the kind of area that you'ld better avoid in the weekends because it can be crowded with hikers, strollers and their kids.
I chose "Polêmikôs" mainly because, according to the description, it would be a boulder easy enough to locate.
Indeed, I more or less walked straight to it. I can imagine on the other hand, that in a few weeks, when the vegetation starts growing again, it will be much less easy to find.
I was a bit surprised by how nice the roof looked, but I was even more surprised with the beauty of the problem.
I enjoyed every move in it!
Fontainebleau - Apremont Buvette - Polêmikôs 7A
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