Chamonix might be the best place in the world
for climbing and mountainering, but when bad weather sets in for two weeks, it
could be a bit boring.
Raining , snowing… raining, snowing… Every
crags or cliffs are wet. It’s time for a little road trip to south of the
France.
Ena has never climbed in verdon before and
was pretending it could never be as nice as her national Paklenica… Like a
real, proud of myslef, chauvinistic french I had to prove she was wrong !
On the first day we have chosen « Tiquet
Danger » in Escales cliff. It’s a pretty 150 m route with 5 very
homogeneous pitches : 6a-6a-6a-6a-6a+.
It starts ... like many routes in verdon by
abseiling from top.
A bit scary ena :p ?
Then Climbing is really fantastic in a nice
environment and on a perfect grey limestone : most probably the best in
the world ;)
Next day in « La Demande » was a
bit more « Alpine Climbing ».
This 375 m route is graded 6a+ maximum but 6a obligatory. Sometimes you
have to kick your ass a bit climbing 5 m between spits. Anyway it’s good to
take camalot 0,5 to 3.
« La demande » is a classic one, never very hard but never very easy too. It's quoted in arnaud
petit’s guide book « Mostbeautiful climbs all over Europe » ( Where is Paklenica ? ;)
