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Title: New 7+8
Post by: Duma on December 18, 2007, 05:22:32 am
is now available on bleau.info

Apologies if this has already been posted, seems to have only gone up on the site last week.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: slackline on December 18, 2007, 08:25:52 am
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 (http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,7773.0/topicseen.html)
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: GraemeA on December 18, 2007, 12:55:54 pm
We have just ordered a load, should be with us in time for Christmas.

Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Norton Sharley on December 18, 2007, 01:02:19 pm
Wow, Font boulders at the works.  You going to put them inside or in the car park Graeme?  :whistle:
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Sypeland on December 18, 2007, 01:38:26 pm
Yo, I should have them in store for the weekend. I'll get them on line as soon as they arrive.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: cofe on December 19, 2007, 05:13:19 pm
(http://www.v-outdoor.co.uk/products/img/0000000070.png)

New Font Guide in stock (http://www.v-outdoor.co.uk/products/climbing_mountaineering/7_8_1789_straight_ups_in_fontainebleau.php) - £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 (http://www.v-graphics.co.uk/site/enquiries.php) if you're in Sheff
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Somebody's Fool on December 19, 2007, 06:03:56 pm
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.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Jim on December 19, 2007, 07:24:43 pm
looks like kneeling bull   sitting donkey  wild stalions crazy horse to me
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Duma on December 20, 2007, 04:39:46 am
anyone done this:
(http://sloper.climbing.nl/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/suif13-0.jpg)
"Délit du Sale Nom 7a" Coquibus somewhere?
looks good, and ace view.
Also is this:
(http://sloper.climbing.nl/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/suif0008.JPG)
t-shirts on sale anywhere, want one!
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Doylo on December 20, 2007, 11:37:52 am
ain't that the new england football manager?
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: dave on December 20, 2007, 11:41:22 am
i just can't believe it's 5 years since the original guide came out. seems like only yesterday.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 20, 2007, 01:09:20 pm
ain't that the new england football manager?

Spot on.  :lol:

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.......
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Norton Sharley on December 20, 2007, 01:19:43 pm
Just bought this and .... why is it that all the hardest problems I've ever done get downgraded?  :furious:



Oh, now I understand  :'(
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: dave on December 20, 2007, 01:22:58 pm
ain't that the new england football manager?

Spot on.  :lol:

You mean "soccer", as they call it in new england.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Percy B on December 20, 2007, 01:47:16 pm
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.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: IainW on December 20, 2007, 05:08:48 pm

7+8 with shiny new cover is likewise in CragX as of this morning.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: a dense loner on December 21, 2007, 04:26:54 pm
strange that every climbing material stockist has got copies of the new 7s+8s. thats a turn up for the books
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Houdini on December 21, 2007, 04:34:15 pm
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.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Sypeland on December 22, 2007, 10:55:07 am
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!
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Sypeland on December 22, 2007, 10:57:31 am
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.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: a dense loner on December 22, 2007, 02:35:25 pm
i don't care, i can't stop looking at her mammaries
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: clm on December 28, 2007, 06:48:56 pm
(http://sloper.climbing.nl/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/suif13-0.jpg)

heading for a a nasty cheatstone enema!!

Does there need to be a cheatstone thread in the donkey line and dab vein?
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: a dense loner on December 28, 2007, 08:24:09 pm
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
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Houdini on December 28, 2007, 09:56:05 pm
It'll go on a doormat
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 29, 2007, 09:04:25 am
Beer mat. 1989(ish). Look at me.  ;)
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: a dense loner on December 29, 2007, 10:11:48 am
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 :shrug:
we digress, where is the cheatstone enema problem head? tell me and you might get your money
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: clm on December 30, 2007, 02:43:55 am
france!!  Now tell me im wrong.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Jim on December 30, 2007, 06:24:59 am
even a fool can tell that. Looks like it might be ontop of dame jaun with that view, although it still could be anywhere
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 30, 2007, 02:10:28 pm
It's on p211 of the new guide at Coquibus Grande Vallees and it says "jump start" not "build a four foot cairn".
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: a dense loner on December 30, 2007, 11:45:34 pm
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 :o
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: runt on December 30, 2007, 11:55:22 pm
yeah its a long walk, and looks solid for a 7b, unless you're a basketball player
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Kim on January 05, 2008, 07:42:20 pm
Anyone know what the problems in faint type have in common? I can't figure it.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: neil h on January 06, 2008, 11:15:18 am
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
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: a dense loner on January 06, 2008, 06:35:18 pm
kim can you not read?
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: cofe on January 07, 2008, 03:14:37 pm
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.

Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Somebody's Fool on January 07, 2008, 03:22:21 pm
Sounds good cofe.  Where on earth can I get a copy?
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: dave on January 07, 2008, 03:24:29 pm
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.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: al on January 07, 2008, 03:49:35 pm
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)
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Houdini on January 07, 2008, 03:56:02 pm
Disagree vis-a-vis cover. 

Love the feel of shiny plastic on skin. 
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: dave on January 07, 2008, 03:57:51 pm
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.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Houdini on January 07, 2008, 04:02:15 pm
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. . .

Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: cofe on January 07, 2008, 04:22:50 pm
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.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: Johnny Brown on January 07, 2008, 05:48:35 pm
I prefer the new cover. It's a nod to those who hadn't yet noticed that this is the ipod of guidebooks.
Title: Re: New 7+8
Post by: neil h on January 09, 2008, 04:09:39 pm
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


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