Cent pofs- Easter

He,

this weekend was Easter weekend so it was packed with people from across the globe trying to tick some Font boulders.
The Hippodrome parking was packed, in consequence the toilet waste piled up at such a staggering rate we decided to raise awareness and made a sign to tell people to bury their excrement and clean up their toilet paper. We arrived on Thursday evening of the 17th and had a nice 5 days of climbing to look forward to. Me and Nat started of in our projects. Nat was up first on "Welcome to Tijuana" 7c, Everything is starting to fall into place and she managed to do it from the start up till the last crux by the exit!! Soon this project will go down. Then it was my turn on "L'apparemment sitstart" 8b+... i felt quite fit and managed to do it from the sit all the way to the last move.. not once but twice, it seems the last weakness is resistance in my right toe hook...
So i plan on focusing on this in my training sessions the coming weeks. I hope i can send this boulder before i turn 40 in june.
After this projecting day we decided to just try and climb everything we liked.
We decided to go to Rocher cassepot right across at walking distance from L'hippodrome.
Years ago i had tried and failed on "double axel" 7a+/b one of the best in the grade, i now wanted to see if i could do it.
I sent it second go and felt happy to feel the improvement i have made over the years.
The sitstart did not feel a lot harder for me and i sent that quite fast as well. After this one i wanted to see the bloc of "sacre bleu" 8a. This one is on my tick list! Amazing, big, beautiful looking bloc.
I jumped on "Cent pofs et sans reproche" 7c/+ and managed this one as well! After this i worked out the beta for "sacre blue" figured it out but it will have to be a bit cooler to send it.
After this we went to Gorge du houx where nat wanted to try "gargantoit" 7a+ a five star high-ball. A bit scared at first but with good spotting and peer pressure nat sent!! proud :D

gargantoit from jan nat on Vimeo.

On sunday we rested :D, bad decision because it rained on monday :/, i decided in my enthousiasm to go find "Fahrenheit 91.4" 7c in montignotte with Filip Notebaert, it took us about an hour and thirty minutes with drenched shoes and pant to find it and quickly realized it was not the 5 star boulder it gets on bleau.info....
"la nuit" 7c was the only dry boulder in Coquibus, i put on my shoes and managed it in a few tries, feels more like a 7b to me but its a boulder you need to do!
See you in two weeks