When Pieter joined me to Rocher de la Cathédrale early afternoon, it was almost 30°C and standing in the sun for longer than a few seconds was almost unbearable.
Thanks to the precise directions I received from Bart (Van Raaij), we didn't have to look for the isolated boulder with "Kinépaulée", aka "Étreinte (assis)", but walked straight to it.
The boulder is at only 15m from the red "25 Bosses" trail, and much frequented by hikers and walkers, but it's a really nice spot with a great looking boulder that has a few lines on it.
Pieter started warming up in "Canicula" while I was trying "Kinépaulée" next to it.
I had to give up after about five minutes though, the line was directly in the sun, and climbing such a problem on warm rock made it nearly impossible.
I decided to join Pieter in the shade with "Canicula (assis)".
It took a while before finding a good method, but even with this method, it still felt the most like a 7A.
Fontainebleau - Rocher de la Cathédrale - Canicula (assis) 6C(7A)
After having spent almost an hour on that spot with little shade, we fled further into the Rocher de la Cathédrale area and ended up in the shade, trying "Love les Tartes".
We couldn't find out how to start besides with a crouching start, but still it felt like we trying at least a hard 7B.
Pieter couldn't move good in it today and I gave it many good tries until I was properly pumped and out of energy.
From there we went deeper into the shade to try "Bafana Bafana" up on the neighbouring hill.
The line goes through the roof of an old bivouac shelter and is a nice cool spot on hot Summer days like today.
We gave it many good tries too and both even fell on the last move to the lip.
We will come back for this one!
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