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azm
Trad climber
Ossau
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 26, 2015 - 06:38am PT
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I remember a while back seeing a topic on balanced rocks. There’s a pretty interesting one near my home in the south of France that I recently brought some friends to see, and it looks like it may present an interesting offwidth challenge...
Behold the Peyro Clabado :
OK, I put the striking image first.
It *is* balanced, but it seems like barely...
The offwidth is above my head on the first picture (I’m on the left, blue Tshirt).
It’s pretty regular (5-6 inches ?), except for a wider section at the bottom (10+ inches ?) :
What sucks is that there’s a big game consisting of throwing rocks on the top, and getting them to stay (if you succeed, you get married in the year -- or something like that). This has ended up in choking the crack at the top...
I have a couple more pictures if anybody is interested. And I don’t know if climbing is authorised...
CL
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 26, 2015 - 07:03am PT
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Go for it, climbing is never authorized although often it is proscribed.....better to ask forgiveness.
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azm
Trad climber
Ossau
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2015 - 07:53am PT
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This is clearly out of my league !
I'll belay though...
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Aug 26, 2015 - 08:11am PT
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^^^ Belay? This is clearly a Boulder problem, and no belay is needed...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 26, 2015 - 08:27am PT
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What, don't they sell Gėants du Vallėe over there?
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azm
Trad climber
Ossau
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2015 - 11:50am PT
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Not really, you just start from the far end :
Oh, and the landing sucks if you fall off the vertical part : you won't end up on the flat part I was standing on, but in the bushes/trees. And it's quite a drop down at that area
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 26, 2015 - 11:59am PT
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That start looks wicked to me, not to mention the seemingly flared transition from horizontal to vertical.
Go for it, climbing is never authorized although often it is proscribed.....better to ask forgiveness.
I experienced that in the hills above Beirut in July of 1970, Jim. Lebanon has some great rock for bouldering, and I brought my PA's with me on a trip to visit my mother's family. I didn't bring any chalk, but I figured I would be the only one climbing, so the holds shouldn't be greasy.
I was climbing for around an hour before a jeep pulled up and a soldier told me (in French) that I was encroaching on a military reserve. Fortunately, he decided I was just an American climber longing to practice his sport, rather than an Israeli spy.
John
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