Saturday, February 23, 2019

February 23, 2019 - A touch of Easter.

Pieter and Alberto are in the forest for the weekend, just like many others who had seen the great forecast or simply had planned to come over already.
With the school holiday in many countries and the beautiful warm weather, it felt like it was Easter weekend already when I was waiting for Alberto and Pieter. We had planned to go to Cuisinière, where Alberto had very long time project to finish.

There's always a lot to do in Cuisinière, but luckily there were no big crowds. Pieter and I had a lot on our list of problems to try, and decided to warm up in "Blocage Mental (assis)".
This one turned out to be much harder and more physical than expected and quickly sucked quite some energy out of us. Pieter came close, but had to give up after a while.
Seeing Pieter getting so close, I, who had already given up on it, gave it one last try and was able to finish.

Fontainebleau - Cuisinière - Blocage Mental (assis) 7A+




We showed Alberto a few methods for doing his project before turning to one of my already long term projects, "Le Bleurb".
Very bad slopers from the start until the last and only good one on the top.
While we were fighting and loosing a lot of skin, Alberto was able to top his project.
Even though we got at inches from the last hold, "Le Bleurb" had completely shut us down and we were in need for a break.

Trying some other problems in between, but in vain, we finally ended up at "Contorsion Égocentrique", a small 7A that I had already tried a couple of times, but was never able to do the first move.
Pieter had found a small foothold though, and with it, I was finally able to do the first move and sent the problem minutes later, followed by Pieter right after.

Fontainebleau - Cuisinière - Contorsion Égocentrique 7A




Driving away from the parking, there were many cars parked until far down the gravel road towards the big road. This really felt like a touch of Easter.

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