January 01, 2024 - Just a new year.

Of course, I used to love celebrating new year's eve. As a child it was an opportunity so see and play with my cousins and staying up until very late. Then, as a teenager, it was another to party with friends. Later, since many years ago, I started to no longer see the sense of celebrating that what is just and only a change of number in the way we write down the date. I started to think of it as a completely pointless reason to celebrate and stay up until after midnight, only to wake up the day after feeling tired and having not much of the day.
I don't celebrate new year's eve anymore since a long time and often find myself alone at home while my wife and kids are off to celebrate at friends' houses. I do wish for them to have fun and enjoy, bus as far as myself concerned, I prefer to stay home and stay within my normal routine of going to bed between 22h and 22h30. It allows me to be in good shape the next day and actually do something without feeling tired and wanting to waste my time yawning on the couch. 
As expected, I was up as usual this morning and with the sun being out, I was more than ready to go for a climb. I went to Apremont Bizons and warmed up on the relatively new "La Longue Jeunesse", which I did on my second attempt. 

Fontainebleau - Apremont Bizons - La Longue Jeunesse 7A

The conditions were very good and the rock was quite sticky, which was a big advantage on the slopey "Deep Grip", on the same boulder and starting the same as "La Longue Jeunesse", but exiting directly on slopers. It only took me five minutes to work out the top part and sent it on my second go from the start. A nice problem, but didn't feel harder than soft 7B in my opinion. Likely, the good conditions had something to do with it.

Fontainebleau - Apremont Bizons - Deep Grip 7B+

Finally, I had a good session on "Border Lyme", being able to work out a method, which was quite complicated. Unfortunately, the process had worn me out and I fell off the last move a few times when coming from the start. A short, but heavy rain shower then put an end to the session.