Anna and I went back to the Marches du Palais Saturday but the cliff is in poor condition as most routes are wet. I tried Dernier jour de démocratie (8b) without success. The crimp of the first crux is completely wet. Anna tried Connecting people (8a) but here too the big tufa is wet. Note …
With all the recent rain, there still not so many choices for rock climbing so we went back to the Marches du Palais close to La Turbie. I did L’homme faible du moment, 7c+ with a new Beta at the end. Anna is too short for this beta so she has to do a big …
Climbing: Marches du Palais – L’homme faible du moment Lire la suite »
Last Saturday we went back to the cliff of Petit Palais, near la Turbie. After the heavy rain of last week, many routes were wet but we still had a nice climbing day. I sent « Quel trip te guette » (7c+) probably the nicest route of the cliff and « Le retour de Mö » (7c/7c+) which is …
Climbing: Petit Palais – Quel trip te guette ? Lire la suite »
After the cold of Chamonix last week, Anna and I were looking for a nice rock climbing day under the sun of the french Riviera. So, we went to the Petit Palais not far from la Turbie, a nice small cliff with 19 routes from 6c+ to 8a+. Well, it was a bit warmer than …
We had enough snow yesterday (see previous post) so we skipped the mountains and went rock climbing at the Marches du Palais. Great day, we felt like in April but despite the sun, lots of holds are still wet. Routes dry: Une bonne raclée (7a+), Sur des rails (7b). Routes wet but climbable: Qui dort …