Top Pic: Me on 7c 4/9/09 Le Fayet Today Euan, Paul and I went back to sector Therm in Le Fayet. I started by trying the 7c that I had been on previously. Euan and Paul started by doing a 6b to warm up. Then Euan got back on the 7b called “Peril Jaune’’ that …
After a 44 hour long epic journey, which involved our car breaking down and some very broken French comunicating to try and get it back on the road, we are finaly back in the amazing French Alps. Yesterday we went to a very good sport crag in Le Fayet. Euan and I both did a …
I got back from the Alps on the 25th of July. Over the last month I have been working as much as possible to try and restock my account balance and lots of training to try and up my fitness both in climbing and cardio, so I’m ready for my next trip to the Alps …
Over the last two weeks I have mostly been cycling in the Ecrins. We have been doing lots of the clasic colls and climbs. Including Alpe D’huez, Col du La Bonnette and many more. The weather has been amazing except for a bit of wind over the last couple of days. But this just makes …
On the 6th Euan, Damien and I headed for a bit of single pitch cragging on La Dalle Rouge near La Berarde. It was a pleasent crag with some short and technical routes. Me and Damien were fairly tired after all our cycling but we battled on and got a few routes done. Inc 6a, …
Euan and I have travelled down to the Ecrins Massif to meet up with some friends and do some climbing and cycling. On sunday we climbed a twelve pitch route on Tete Le Maye above La Berarde called Le Maye Dulfer (TD 6B+). The rock was excellent and had some amazing hanging flakes which were …
Top- Me Summit2nd – Euan SummitLower 2- Me and Euan heading back down with more storms moving in. Yesterdy Euan and I headed to the Albert Premier Hut, with the intention of climbing the Forbes Arete which has seen a few ascents over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, when we got up this morning …
Top pic- Is a topo of the second half of the route in the setting sun Yesterday Euan and I headed up on the 11:45 telepherique to the half way station on the Aiguille du Midi. We then walked for about 40mins, which took us to the bottom of our route which was the 3rd …
After our three big days doing Alpine routes. Euan and I dicided to go for some easy sport cragging. Still totally gubbed from the previous few days nothing harder than 6b+ got ticked. But it was fun to get moving on the French sport crags.
On the 16th, Euan and I walked into the Rottal Hutte (hut) below the North face of the Abeniflue. Early the next morning (3am) we walked to the base of our intended route which is the ridge on the right hand side of the face (TD). We had to take a low detour to avoid …
