May 03, 2024 - Not quite on fire.

The weather was beautiful this morning and being Friday, I decided to go to Rocher Canon. The last time I climbed there was back in 2020 with Pieter. I can't hide that it's not my favorite area, even though there is so much to climb. I guess one of the main reasons is that it tends to be a very busy area being so close to Melun and the Bois-le-Roi train station.
I arrived at the area without any specific goal besides trying to stay alone as much as possible. It was still early and I immediately walked towards the back of the area to end up at the boulder of "Chasseur de Prises". I had done "Chasseur de Prises" back in 2015, and I remember that it took me quite some time and a lot of effort. Now I only needed a handful of attempts to repeat it while warming up and I decided to try the sitstart. I wasn't mentally prepared to try something that hard though and I couldn't quite get myself enough on fire to really pull hard. It didn't take long before my attention went to "L'Envers du Décor" just left of "Chasseur de Prises".
I liked doing this one, but I have to admit that I didn't want to fall off in the second half, so I pulled harder than needed, wasting energy in the process.

Fontainebleau - Rocher Canon - L'Envers du Décor 7A+

Just strolling around and briefly trying different things here and there, I got away with a quick ascent of "36.15 (gauche)".

Fontainebleau - Rocher Canon - 36.15 (gauche) 7A(7A+)

Still trying other things wherever I felt like, I ended up at "Jour de Pluie" and realized that I had only done the shortcut version in 2017, but had never done the full line. It is a nice spot there, so I decided to spend the remaining time of my climbing session on this one.
I apparently forgot how hard the topout was, because I fell twice there and I was getting tired. After a very short break and inspecting the toput, I ended up fighting my way to the top.

Fontainebleau - Rocher Canon - Jour de Pluie 7B