Well, I am sitting here in an effort to try and study for my upcoming french philosophy exam, and I realize it has been months since I last wrote... what better time than now to catch up on the past semester. After getting back to Angers, I immediately hooked up with the French Alpine Club, which just so happens to have a great training center in Angers, hmm, how nice. I have spent the last semester planing my studies around my climbing trips, like any good student should do. I have had the chance to experience many great climbing areas, some of those being: Angles, Manis, La Gorge du Verdon, Les Calanques, Fontainebleau, and other random sites throughout my travels. But most of all I have meet some amazing people who share a passion that is recognized across language barriers, religion, and race, that passion being climbing. As always where you find climbers, you find good people, and I know that this is quite a large generalization, but I'm willing to make it. There are always those token few rotten eggs that put off a bad odor, but you can't let them ruin your omelet (lame connection to my french philo studies). Anyway, The following are a few photos from the areas I have been climbing in over the past three months... enjoy..
Oh yes, my next adventure starts friday. Biking across France (and/maybe/also Switzerland and Italy) from crag to crag in search of climbing, and an experience that will be remembered for a lifetime. I meet up with my good friend David this coming friday in Geneva, from where we will be taking off saturday on bike to Chamonix. We'll meet up with his girlfriend there, spend a few days climbing amongst some absolutely gorgeous scenery and then head on toward where ever it is we feel like climbing next, as long as it's within a reasonable distance, that being within a few hundred miles. We have no set plans for after Chamonix, so I will try and post more often so those who wish to, can follow our adventures. It's going to be a wild month, and as for now it's back to french philosophy... was it Descartes who said "Je grimpe donc je suis"(I climb therefore I am), ;)
La Gorge du Verdon, one of the most inspiring areas I have climbed at.
Never a dull moment in the Verdon, throw the rappel, all three, or four of them (double rope) and then hope you climb out before the rain hits...
Les Calanques, a great place to climb during the winter, as long as the winds not up.
The bouldering Mecca of France... Fontainebleau... mmm, how I miss the skin I left there...
