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Fab spot... Tried some on sat week and think I'll leave buying hers until June as she's too big for current size and too small for next!  Lol.  Typical!  But at for link, good price for kids shoes. 

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damn, just paid full price for a pair of mad monkeys

For what it's worth my daughter has had a pair of boreals, cheap decathlons and we also tried the evolv vengas, she found all of them uncomfortable as they dug into the back of the ankle too much. The mad monkeys seem much softer and had adjustable ankle strap

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 Well this is the week we're here in font.  So far we've done the Enfant circuits at L'Elephant twice and also the one at Roche Aux Sabots.  Both good young kids circuits! 

Pics and more report later. The sun is shinning! 

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My niece (10) highly recommends the white circuit at Apremont bizon. It's all the rest of us can manage in the heat too at the moment.

We'll check out Rocher canon and Rocher st Germain white circuits soon. I'll report back then.

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 :punk:Our last full day today and the car said it was 33 degrees and we just hit the pool. A much more sensible decision.  Short report will follow when we're home, for parents of youngsters who want to climb... There doesn't seem much published. 

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Thought I would resurrect this thread rather than start another. For anyone with young children thinking of going to Fontainebleau and wondering where the kids can climb the following is my humble experience and recommendations from being there with a 9yr old. 

Roche aux Sabots

Amazing white circuit, easy to find and easy to follow. Highly recommended and Harry managed all 40 problems fairly easily and it was a great introduction to the style of climbing.

Beauvais Nains

Absolutely brilliant for kids. Easy to find white, yellow and Orange circuits which are all in the same general area. The yellow was perfect for our son. A bit out of the way in comparison with some of the other areas but still only 20mins from Arbonne la Foret.

Canche aux Merciers
Good yellow circuit and a really good area where as a parent I could also do some problems I wanted to do. Hard to follow the white circuit there.

Isatis
We only did a few individual yellow problems here and they were generally good. Was very busy though.

Elephant
I thought this would be the best area and it looks like it on arrival with a massive sand pit area to start. However the kids circuit was very hard to follow and the landings were not great. Overall it was our least favourite place which was the opposite to my initial thoughts.

Lastly we stayed at Arbonne la foret which was an ideal location and minimized the driving each day and meant I could nip out in the morning or evening myself without being massive disruptive in terms of time and driving etc.

Anyway, hope this helps anyone else wanting to go with a family etc

Cheers

Dave


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Don't have kids, but isn't there a good kids circuit at Franchard? West of Isatis? And I've seen lots of kids doing the mountain circuit at Cuisiniere, tho there's a couple bits you'd want to skip due to exposure.

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A couple of recommendations from last summer... purely for the wildlings.

Franchard Ermitage - Excellent children's circuit, really accessible for beginners, my chidlers (8 and 11) did the whole thing trainers and loved it.  Good picnic spot and Mrs BtB whom uses a mobility scooter was able to access the area with the circuit.  Followed up with a walk out to the viewing point for me and the kids (there are some largely forgotten adult circuits/ boulders) en route including a big boulder with orange problems and a top roping bolt in place (my son climbed it sans rope with me behind him for confidence).

Feuillardière - lovely spot with 3 kids circuits for ages 3+, 5+ and 8+.  Perfect range of problems for a chidler friendly afternoon of bouldering.

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It’s years since i went but there was a nice (if slightly overgrown) enfant circuit at Apremont. Great bit of mantle practice on lots of small rounded blobs. Inevitably the child we were with found this all too easy and in the end out-phyched us insisting on heading out again on the last day when the olds were battered and broken. Good times

 

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