also notice on this article : http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=1567 the grading system sounds like route difficulty doesn't go as low as V1/V2 UK, I may be confused here, but if anyone can clarify please.
Finally, we'd like to camp, but again, the information is a little scattered. Any suggestions? Anybody been recently and found free camping?What's the etiquette on using chalk, and are there climbing shops to hire crash mats?
Any other info you reckon would help us, I'd be grateful for!
Buy or borrow a guide and use it to boulder anywhere with a good range of circuits. In font, at this level, guides are for reading beforehand to pick a venue.
baton wicks recently had an offer on, buy the circuits guide with a 30% discount and get the off-piste guide free. Worth checking to see if it's still available, two guides for under £14 is a bit of a bargain.
Get yourself a chunk of welcome mat type carpet & use it to stand on & be obsessive about cleaning the sand off & 'squeaking' the soles of your shoes before they touch the rock. This will add hugely to your enjoyment & the range of things that you can & climb more importantly (from my POV ) minimise your contribution to the runaway problem of polish which people's failure to do this seems to be causing.NB I think we can be fairly confident that attributing this polish to pof use is utter bollocks as it's a recent phenomenon & pof use goes back for a century.,
camp site at Gres surloing [/qupte] Good portmanteau.You mention you'll have a kid with you. You might find the Wik entry for Fontainebleau useful in this regard.
+1 for ignore the grades to a degree, take a look and if you fancy the look of it try the problem and see what you can manage, when you find them jamming cracks/problems are often overgraded in my limited experience and can provide a moral boosting tick, especially offwidths
NB I think we can be fairly confident that attributing this polish to pof use is utter bollocks as it's a recent phenomenon & pof use goes back for a century.,
Ever seen a polished handhold in Font?