Climbing Session: La Bagarée (La Colle Sur Loup)

One of the purposes of this blog is to keep track of all my climbing activities. Thus, allowing me to control how often I climb, and to measure my progress and achievements.

So, here's the first official record:

A big group of friends (around 10 people), some of them beginners, went to La Colle Sur Loup after work. I climbed with Matthiew, and although we got there a little later than planned, we managed to do:

Fort Djebel, 6a (on-sight)
Padac Ricar, 6b (on-sight)
Robocab, 7a (top-rope)

The first two routes are quite easy for their grade (most of the routes in La Bagarée are), so they were a good warm up.

Robocab is a very physical, short, boulder style route. It starts with a couple of easy moves that lead to a large horizontal roof (that's the key part of the route). It took us 6 or 7 attempts to figure out how to get over this roof, but finally we found our way :)

The crag itself is quite slippery, there are few big holds and you find mainly flat edges. The flat edges enforce the use of your feet thus improving your technique.

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As usual, the mosquitoes were very happy to see me back in the crag. It's been a while since I last went, but some things never change.