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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 22, 2013 - 01:36pm PT
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The photos are taken from Sylvain Jouty's excellent book: Bleau. La Foret de Fontainebleau et ses rochers. 1982.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Feb 24, 2013 - 04:21am PT
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Marlow, sick stuff man! Those old photos are unreal!
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Love it! Maybe in the fall...
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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I'm cross posting this as it's relevant to several threads.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Blakey: TFPU. Could you tell us the story of the shoes?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Climbing i Fontainebleau - in the beginning. (La Montagne Juin 1966)
Blakey: Great Facebook site and interesting photos. I hope the next step is to organize and contextualize the photos better.
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Hi Marlow,
I stumbled across them (the photo) on the Facebook site I posted up about the other day.
https://www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s/photos_stream
There's no annotation other than ALLAIN 1948......
As I mentioned on the other thread there's quite a few older photos, of Comici for example that I've not seen elsewhere.
Regards,
Steve
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Jeffrey VanMiddlebrook
Boulder climber
Mountain View, CA
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Mar 17, 2013 - 04:05am PT
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Wish I had known of that venue in 1982 when I was living in France and still climbing. Gorgeous.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 18, 2013 - 03:15pm PT
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Fontainebleau February
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Mechrist
From Oslo: Around 1000 miles. Time by train: 24 hours. Driving a car: 20 hours. Flying: 2,5 hours.
I'm off to Font in the near future climbing with someone bouldering problems not far from my own level. I'm too competitive to climb with someone far above my own level... Lol...
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Mar 18, 2013 - 04:02pm PT
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Nice. How far from Oslo? Just curious... there is this job thingy... I might apply.
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Mar 18, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
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Nice video Marlow. Love that move at 4:58.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 18, 2013 - 05:57pm PT
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Andy.
Cool move. The use of momentum and swing is an art.
And excuse me for hijacking Steve's thread. I will start a new one... soon.
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Scott McNamara
climber
Tucson, Arizona
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Mar 24, 2013 - 12:55pm PT
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Would anyone know the best season to go there?
Thanks!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 24, 2013 - 01:05pm PT
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Scott
Here is a link to ukclimbing's Font information: http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=1567
This is what they have to say about when to go there:
"Anytime really - that's the truth. Traditionally people say spring and autumn, but winter can have perfect conditions (February is the driest cold month) though it can get bitter cold. People complain about the summer heat and humidity but plenty of hard climbing gets done in the summer, such as Jackie Godoffe's 8b projects in Orsay this summer, and the 7c+ Fahrenheit 91.4 put up by Thierry Gueguen in July. In the summer heat though most people just reduce their grade and do circuits, or climb early and late and siesta in the hot middle of the day.
You can expect to have some rain at any time, but this shouldn't be a big problem because you probably need a rest day anyway. Actually many areas dry extremely quickly, generally if they are high up on the slopes of the numerous little hills (pignons) in the forest, such as 95.2, Apremont, Gorge des Chats. As you get closer to the time of your trip, take a look at bleau.info which has the best links to online weather resources, but what are you going to do? Cancel? May is the rainiest month but not by much. You shouldn't really rule a trip in or out based on the time of year unless you really need it to be cold for a difficult project."
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