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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2010 - 12:46am PT
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Bouldering Bump!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2010 - 05:08pm PT
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A Ron Matous shot of the business from Summit February/ March 1980.
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Dec 22, 2010 - 01:17pm PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2010 - 10:53pm PT
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Thanks, Marty!
Such a sweet looking problem!
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Dec 28, 2010 - 03:39am PT
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Poke
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2012 - 12:25pm PT
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Ain't been bumped in years...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2012 - 04:17pm PT
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Thanks for those video links Marlow!!!
Really gives you a feel for the place...cool stuff!
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Mar 18, 2012 - 06:59pm PT
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One of my kids at Bleau, sat in a pocket!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 25, 2012 - 09:57pm PT
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Bump for ambiance...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 26, 2012 - 01:00pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
A video showing the forest and some of it's stones very well. An ordinary day with climbers climbing at a low to moderate level.
The problems of the circles of Font are marked with colour. You have the easiest white problems - then the yellow (jaune) problems - the green (vert) ones - the blue (bleu) - the red and at last - the hardest black problems. Some places there are problems harder than the black ones marked with white colour.
You may have three different blue circles in the same area - Apremont is an example. Then the painted shade of blue of the three circles are different.
The guys in this video are primarily climbing blue problems. They are talking Swedish.
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Hannes
Ice climber
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Mar 26, 2012 - 03:41pm PT
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I'm not much into bouldering but I wouldn't mind a week in Font. Its an amazing experience but you get pretty humbled coming there, I had to try two or three times to get up a Font 2B. Later when spending a few hours trying to get up the ultra classic La Marie Rose, 6A without luck, an elderly french gentleman strolls up, says "Bonjour", puts a bit of pof on his shoes and does it without a wobble.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 26, 2012 - 03:53pm PT
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Hannes.
I've also had that experience. A local in his 60ies with his backpack easily climbing a problem I have been struggling with and continuing up the next problem effortlessly. And the young guns/bleausards cruising around on the stone talking about us northerners as "tres serieux" when we struggle on their warm-up problems and then "allez, allez" on our next try. LOL...
La Marie Rose - the first 6a climbed in the forest:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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Busy little bumps!
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Never been to a place that you could have so much fun while learning so much at the same time.
Font could very well be the best climbing in the world, thanks everyone for the inspiration.
Magique.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2012 - 07:36pm PT
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Video bump...
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