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ddriver
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SLC, UT
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Feb 21, 2013 - 03:21pm PT
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Anyone interested in climbing at les Calanques this June? I want to go, but need a partner / leader.
Is June a good time to be there? Not too hot?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2013 - 04:02pm PT
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A reportage about the poisoning of the Calanques (for those who understand French): Sur Calanques Une Histoire Empoisonnee by Valérie Simonet.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2013 - 04:40pm PT
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La Candelle, Sugiton, Les Calanques (Vertical Mars 2000)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2013 - 04:46pm PT
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Sugiton - geology
The formation of the Calanques
Marseille - geology
Source: Decouverte geologique de Marseille et de son environment montagneux
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2013 - 01:44pm PT
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Le Grec - Vertical Avril 1995
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2013 - 12:38pm PT
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Les Calanques - an old map
from G. Rebuffat and G. Ollive's book "Calanques" 1949
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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The Tour just passed through Marseille, and any climber had to have checked out the crags along the route. At least I did.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2013 - 11:00am PT
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Lovegasoline
Three months in Cassis in the autumn 16 years ago must have been a dream. I have never lived in Cassis, but I have climbed most of the routes at Dalle de Port Miou Vallon.
Some Cassis pictures taken during the walk to the crag 1998
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Great stuff!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2013 - 11:48am PT
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Zinedine Zidane about La Castellane, Marseille (2004 interview): 'I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille,' ... I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to. It is still my home... It is true that it is still a difficult area, what is called in French a quartier difficile. But I think there is also a special culture there. I think Marseille is probably a place like Liverpool, very vibrant and very tough. I know players such as Bruno Cheyrou and Anthony Le Tallec, who should do well in Liverpool for this reason. My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to...'
The whole article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2004/apr/04/sport.features
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2013 - 12:42pm PT
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All the Calanques from Marseille to Cassis
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Correct order from Marseille to Cassis is: Sormiou - Morgiou - Sugiton - En Vau - Port Pin.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 18, 2013 - 01:02pm PT
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Joseph Conrad in Marseille - chronologically - his first sea-journey was on the barge "Mont Blanc":
1874
19 September - Konrad comes to Krakow;
13 October - Korzeniowski leaves for Marseilles . His uncle and guardian, Tadeusz Bobrowski, allows him a grant of 600 rubles a year;
15 December - he goes for his first sea-journey, as a passenger, on the barge "Mont Blanc" which goes from Marseilles to Martinique;
1875
23 May - Korzeniowski comes back to Marseilles;
25 June - another voyage on the "Mont Blanc", this time as a trainee seaman to Haiti;
23 December - return to Le Havre;
1876
8 July - as a steward on the "Saint Antoine", he travels from Marseilles to Martinique, Haiti, Venezuela, and Columbia. During these journeys he meets Dominic Cervoni, the model for several of his characters (Jean Peyrol, Nostromo, Attillio);
1877
15 February - return to Marseilles;
2nd half of the year - Korzeniowski is involved in gun smuggling to Spain
1878
February - Korzeniowski unsuccessfully attempts to commit suicide (because of debts?) - he shoots himself in the chest but is not seriously injured;
27 March - Tadeusz Bobrowski comes to Marseilles - he pays Korzeniowski's debts and grants him 950 rubles a year from now on;
24 April - Korzeniowski joins English steamer the "Mavis", for the first time as a "able bodied seaman" - voyages to Constantinople and Yeysk;
10 June - return to the mother-port of the ship - Lowestoft;
11 July - Korzeniowski as a sailor joins schooner "The Skimmer of the Sea";
23 August - he leaves the ship after three courses between Lowestoft and Newcastle;
12 October - he joins the "Duke of Sutherland" and as a sailor leaves for Australia"
"I'd like to just step into this street scene, head right over to the Cafe on the left, and watch the trams go by as I sip a café au lait. The trams have been there since 1875, when the first horse-drawn tram traveled on this very street. If I were sitting in some other city, I might look at the trams with sadness, predicting their demise in a few decades. Not so in Marseille where trams have been running continuously since 1876."
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