JB you should go to Buoux. The valley is magical. The climbing couldn't be further away from the "worship of power on shit bits of rock" that you describe. There is everything from single pitch thugish power routes, to slabs, to multi pitch cracks and soaring aretes. It is nothing like the modern sport climbing crags of Spain, you have to climb well to do the routes, many end up on slabs and the bolts can be miles apart. Hence why its not that popular now.The whole valley is full of history, the fort on the ridge on the opposite side of the valley is amazing. Built in C13th and occupied until the late C16th when it was ruined during the wars. There are also evidence of prehistoric man living there. I guarantee you would be inspired.
We seem to be having a proper old skool overload at the minute, with the school re opening, Hubble being tired and failed on, Rose and the Vampire and now a malc interview.
JB you should go to Buoux. The valley is magical. The whole valley is full of history, the fort on the ridge on the opposite side of the valley is amazing. Built in C13th and occupied until the late C16th when it was ruined during the wars. There are also evidence of prehistoric man living there. I guarantee you would be inspired.
I believe the shafts in the cliff were for Huguenot refuges, the blocky cutaways used to hold the timber structure
Brilliant! Best one yet.I wandered along the bottom of the route in 94 looking up in awe and never seen anyone (in life or on film) climb it... what a route - big powerful moves, techy looking crux getting set up for the big move at the overlap...
Quote from: tomtom on June 12, 2014, 05:55:44 amBrilliant! Best one yet.I wandered along the bottom of the route in 94 looking up in awe and never seen anyone (in life or on film) climb it... what a route - big powerful moves, techy looking crux getting set up for the big move at the overlap...I watched Sean Myles redpoint it back in 1987(?). In a thunderstorm. He was quite chuffed.
That trip was a good one - it is when your nickname was born.
And when you spat in the Brat's face
Quote from: GraemeA on June 16, 2014, 02:19:33 pmAnd when you spat in the Brat's face And on this please!
Sitting around the campsite one night the Brat was living up to his name and was spitting all over the place and was hitting people with it. Mr Shark just got up, strolled over to the Brat and gobbed in his face - the Brat stopped being a brat for the rest of the night. Waddage to the Shark.
Who's the Brat?