The forest in Videlles is beautiful and peaceful and while enjoying the walk uphill, I noticed the boulder suddenly at about ten meters from the path. Expecting it closer to the top of the hill, it was a pleasant coincidence that I happened to look in the boulder's direction.
Carefully inspecting the holds, I noticed that the starting hold for the left hand broke some time ago. I didn't know how it looked like before the break, but it definitely looked like a substantial piece had broken off and I was wondering that maybe that was the reason why all of the three registered repeaters rated it 7B+ instead of the originally proposed 7B. Looking at the other hard looking holds, I reasoned that the best approach would be to work out the moves separately, which turned out to be a good decision. It took some time before I was able to lift my butt off the ground, let alone doing the first move to a far small crimp. Even when I was finally able to it, it wasn't a move that I could every time, it had to be dead on and there was no margin for correction.
For the other moves, it took a while before I even could find a possible working method, and I came to realize that every move from beginning to end was hard. Only after I was finally able to do the problem in two overlapping parts, I started making real attempts from the start.
It was a big fight and a hard battle and I came close to giving up when my skin started to burn and felt more painful after each attempt, but then suddenly, it all came together. I was glad that I had also practiced the topout of "Roudor", because it isn't over until it's completely over with this one.
Taking a needed and deserved break after topping out, I thought about it and I have to agree with the previous repeaters for 100%. This is definitely harder than 7B, possibly even hard edge 7B+!
Fontainebleau - Videlles l'Abattoir - Roudor 7B+(7B)
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