[Duma]

is now available on bleau.info

Apologies if this has already been posted, seems to have only gone up on the site last week.

[slackline]

is now available on bleau.info

Apologies if this has already been posted, seems to have only gone up on the site last week.

You were pipped by three days

[GraemeA]

We have just ordered a load, should be with us in time for Christmas.

[Norton Sharley]

Wow, Font boulders at the works.  You going to put them inside or in the car park Graeme? 

[Sypeland]

Yo, I should have them in store for the weekend. I'll get them on line as soon as they arrive.

[cofe]

New Font Guide in stock - £25 plus free p&p. We'll post any orders out in UK tomorrow first class too, to try and get them there before the fat dude in the red terry toweling jumpsuit arrives.

Or drop by the office if you're in Sheff

[Somebody's Fool]

Nice link cofe.  Just a few gripes about the photo of Ben's Reverse you've put on there:

a)  You've printed it backwards
b)  It's obviously tilted to look steeper
c)  It's not in Font.  It's at Stanage.

Apart from that, I look forward to making a purchase.  Good day.

[Jim]

looks like kneeling bull   sitting donkey  wild stalions crazy horse to me

[Duma]

anyone done this:

"Délit du Sale Nom 7a" Coquibus somewhere?
looks good, and ace view.
Also is this:

t-shirts on sale anywhere, want one!

[Doylo]

ain't that the new england football manager?

[dave]

i just can't believe it's 5 years since the original guide came out. seems like only yesterday.

[Jaspersharpe]

ain't that the new england football manager?

Spot on. 

i just can't believe it's 5 years since the original guide came out. seems like only yesterday.

Brings a tear to the eye so it does etc etc. I have never even seen the original version of this hallowed tome but have heard only great things about it. My copy of the new one is in the post and I am looking forward to it more than Christmas.

The Mrs doesn't understand why I need another guide to the same place. It's not worth trying to explain.......

[Norton Sharley]

Just bought this and .... why is it that all the hardest problems I've ever done get downgraded? 



Oh, now I understand 

[dave]

ain't that the new england football manager?

Spot on. 

You mean "soccer", as they call it in new england.

[Percy B]

We got some of these in our shop at The Climbing Works if you want to buy one - there are very nice indeed. We also got HardXS and The 80's: Birth of the Extreme DVD's. All our mats are back in place now, and there is a new bit of wall to fall off in place too.

[IainW]

7+8 with shiny new cover is likewise in CragX as of this morning.

[a dense loner]

strange that every climbing material stockist has got copies of the new 7s+8s. thats a turn up for the books

[Houdini]

I just can't believe it's 5 years since the original guide came out.

Can't believe I've been to Font four times since I bought the guide and not once have I remembered to take it there.

[Sypeland]

strange that every climbing material stockist has got copies of the new 7s+8s. thats a turn up for the books

I've only got ONE left!

[Sypeland]

Did notice that the red problems (shown on the maps for reference points) on the Apremont section are out of synch with the purple guide.

[a dense loner]

i don't care, i can't stop looking at her mammaries

[clm]

heading for a a nasty cheatstone enema!!

Does there need to be a cheatstone thread in the donkey line and dab vein?

[a dense loner]

good call, we could integrate this with a how many pads you used scenario. a la hypothese for cheat stone and 3 stacked being the average number for l'aerodynamite

[Houdini]

It'll go on a doormat

[Jaspersharpe]

Beer mat. 1989(ish). Look at me. 

[a dense loner]

oh i know this boys and girls. bob dylan with a shrunken body cancelled out your beer mat ascent jasper, taking the average back to 3. houdini don't dare tell me you did it off a doormat, tho you have got springy little bipeds
we digress, where is the cheatstone enema problem head? tell me and you might get your money

[clm]

france!!  Now tell me im wrong.

[Jim]

even a fool can tell that. Looks like it might be ontop of dame jaun with that view, although it still could be anywhere

[Jaspersharpe]

It's on p211 of the new guide at Coquibus Grande Vallees and it says "jump start" not "build a four foot cairn".

[a dense loner]

a couple of years ago(ish) went looking for a prob in one of the coquibus areas and couldn't even find the area. that was with guidebooks and people who could read

[runt]

yeah its a long walk, and looks solid for a 7b, unless you're a basketball player

[Kim]

Anyone know what the problems in faint type have in common? I can't figure it.

[neil h]

Anyone know what the problems in faint type have in common? I can't figure it.

I think it means there not very good, Eliminate or something like that, but i may be wrong

[a dense loner]

kim can you not read?

[cofe]

first impressions of the new 7+8 anyone? i have to say mine has been pretty essential toilet reading for the last few weeks - the mark of a good guidebook. looking forward to checking out some of the new stuff that's appeared in a few weeks time. i think the pics benefit from extra contrast although some have been overcooked and i don't really care if the maps aren't OS or whatever - i think it's still lovely.

[Somebody's Fool]

Sounds good cofe.  Where on earth can I get a copy?

[dave]

the photos look a lot better than the previous guide but i can't say i've actually read the guide - i've got no trips in the near future so no point. I do think the new front cover is toss though, it looks like a fucking first-aid kit.

[al]

even more 'fetish' than last time - class work throughout, definitely (except cover design, as dave says - although can see the attraction of a plastic cover having made some covers too weedy in the past)

[Houdini]

Disagree vis-a-vis cover. 

Love the feel of shiny plastic on skin. 

[dave]

this cover don't even seem particularly hardwearing - mines already showing signs of splitting at the spine despite being hardly handled. i'd prefer if they just make guide covers plain cardboard and then you can always back it in transparent stickybacked plastic if you wanna keep it from falling apart.

[Houdini]

this cover don't even seem particularly hardwearing - mines already showing signs of splitting at the spine despite being fucked senseless and covered w/man-glue every day since I bought it.

Yuck!



Bibliophilia. . .

[cofe]

this cover don't even seem particularly hardwearing - mines already showing signs of splitting at the spine despite being hardly handled. i'd prefer if they just make guide covers plain cardboard and then you can always back it in transparent stickybacked plastic if you wanna keep it from falling apart.

have any of your guides ever left the house though word?

i've no prob with plastic cover but agree re: orange on white - the 1st edition cover was a better look. saying that i spend most of the time looking inside the book rather than staring at the front.

[Johnny Brown]

I prefer the new cover. It's a nod to those who hadn't yet noticed that this is the ipod of guidebooks.

[neil h]

Just to let you all know, that i am now stocking the new 7&8 here at the maisonbleau, so If you are coming to stay here I have it, but If you are in the forest needing a copy just give me a bell and I can bring ine to you price is 28 Euro


thanks