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We have been offering E9 clothing in our shop for over a year now, and are pleased to announce that it is now accompanied by a second major European brand for sport climbing and bouldering clothes, NIHIL Climbing. The company is owned by former Dutch bouldering champion and professional designer Irene Pieper, one of the few women that have mastered 7b in Fontainebleau. Except for T-shirts, we have the complete new 2007 collection in stock. (0 responses)
Climbers which visited Cuvier Rempart this winter will have undoubtedly seen that numerous boulders have been brushed recently. Over 70 new problems (from 4- to 7c) have been opened and are presented in the topo of Bout du Rempart. The majority of the work is due to Philippe Le Denmat and Emmanuel Ratouis, but other openers like Tony Fouchereau contributed as well. For more information (in French), read the follow-up to this news message. (4 responses)
Michel Grillère is happy to announce the birth of Marion des Roches, a new area situated East of the small village of Bourron-Marlotte. Well, it is not really a new area because certain crags have been known for a long time, but the sector has never been properly developed. Like Michel, we hope that these crags will be appreciated but also respected by the climbers. As a follow-up to this news message, you can find more background information (in French though). (2 responses)
We are proud to announce that Christophe Laumone opened up his photo archive for us. This Monday to Friday, we will present over 80 pictures of Christophe and close friends, in the hardest boulder problems Font has to offer. Every day at 5:00 pm sharp, ten new photo series will be presented.
We have the double pleasure to announce that Guillaume Tournus has become the father of the little Titouan a few days ago, and that he has sent us a 23 minutes long realvideo called "Bleausards". You will find a nice selection of boulders, from classical to hidden ones. Their names aren't mentioned on purpose, because Guillaume wants to emphasize the ambiance of Bleau. It won't be easy to regocnize all the boulders presented! (11 responses)
Sébastien Morelli, journaliste au Parisien, est venu ce vendredi au Bas-Cuvier pour interviewer des grimpeurs sur le problème des prises taillées. Son article devrait paraître dans l'édition du dimanche 7 janvier 2007 du Parisien.
Happy new year to everybody, and we wish you a lot of sends in 2007! We kick off the new year in a proper way with a 22 minutes long realvideo by Alain Dupas, containing his realizations in the past year. That should give you enough appetite for good new year resolutions :-).
On assiste actuellement à une recrudescence de la taille des prises à Fontainebleau. Pour lutter contre cette pratique, vous pouvez télécharger et imprimer l'affiche suivante : HALTE AU TAILLAGE!. Merci de la diffuser autour de vous et notamment auprès des clubs et des associations. Au cas où vous l'afficheriez, veillez à ce que ce soit en un lieu autorisé et qu'il n'y ait aucun risque que celle-ci se retrouve au sol.
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Many of the hardest problems in the forest of Fontainebleau are nowadays opened by foreigners, and one month ago Daï Koyamada opened Angama, one of the hardest lines in Font, with a proposed grade of 8c. We reconsider this extreme achievement with an interview with Daï by Kazu Chiba. Two DVDs of Daï (one about Fontainebleau and Cresciano, the other about his repetition of "Action Directe") are at the moment for sale in shops like La Maison du Grimpeur in Paris. However, the DVDs are region coded for the USA, so Europeans will need a multi-region DVD player. (0 responses)
The summer apparently lasted long in Mauro Calibani's Meschia, because only yesterday we received his new E9 autumn/winter collection. We furthermore did not only add the latest Font guide to our shop, but for instance also all Jingo Wobbly guides (amongst others Fontainebleau Magique), and two - very recently published - great new "Rock Climbing Atlases" concerning South Eastern Europe and Greece & The Middle East. (0 responses)
Comme vous avez pu l'apprendre par les média, 4 alpinistes Français sont portés disparus au Népal depuis le 5 Novembre. Parmi ces 4 alpinistes, l'un d'entre eux est un excellent Bleausard que vous avez peut être déjà croisé en
forêt, Jean-Baptiste Moreau. Leurs familles et leurs camarades font appel à la solidarité des grimpeurs de Bleau. Le temps compte, les heures d'hélico coûtent cher, et les équipes sur place ont besoin de soutien. Vous pouvez contribuer financièrement à la recherche de Jean-Baptiste, Raphaël, Stefan et Vincent en faisant un don sur le site http://revenir-du-nepal.over-blog.org/.
Merci par avance de votre sensibilité. (1 response)
Some new entries in our database indicated something was happening in Restant du Long Rocher, but in fact several complete sectors have been cleaned over there, resulting in about sixty new bouldering problems. They are mainly the work of Michel Grillère and David Evrard, but Damien Roguiez, Aurélien Sassier, Christophe Laumône, Stephan Denys, Frank Scherrer, Laurent Darlot and Christian Mérimèche are involved as well as openers. You can discover the nice sectors by consulting the topo of Restant du Long Rocher that David sent us, or check the photos and videos on his website Grimpeabloc. Of course, we will soon add all the boulders to our database, as well as more photos and videos, since a "happy few" recently had the opportunity to get a complete tour of the area by David. (0 responses)
Normally this site is about Font, but in this case we make an exception, as the beautiful Italian Val di Mello (well known among climbers and boulderers, also because of MelloBlocco) is threatened. Plans to close and tap the whole creek and river system of the valley in order to produce electricity are on the verge of execution. As the English explanation describes, this will lead to major dehydration of the area and irriversible damage of the landscape. Please sign the petition on the Val di Mello website to stop this from happening! (0 responses)
As the Dutch news archive shows, this website was launched exactly 7½ years ago this Saturday. It started with a list of hard problems collected by Jos Leenen and Bart van Raaij, and used to be referred to as "le site de référence pour le haut niveau à Bleau". Nowadays, we try to give as much information we can about boulders of any difficulty. We are therefore glad we just received, for instance, situation pictures of the complete orange circuit in Rocher Canon from Frédéric Bodin. As a nice coincidence, the site statistics show that we just reached 7.500 pictures and 1.000 videos of individual boulders ;-) (2 responses)
The new climbing gym Bloc'Age has just opened at Arbonne-la-Forêt (in between Trois Pignons and Bas Cuvier)! Created by Franck Meurou, boulderers will of course appreciate the hundred or more problems created by Catherine Miquel and Christophe Laumône. More details (in French, but with photos by Stefan Lambert and Joël Chabert of Grimporama) can be found in the follow-up. So now you know where to go if it rains in the magical forest! (3 responses)
Dominique et Jean-Jacques Naëls ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la naissance du petit frère de Bleau, de Grès 6. Le bébé est effectivement magnifique et vous pouvez dès à présent l'emmener faire ses premières promenades en forêt après être passé (par exemple) par le Vieux Campeur, la maison de la presse de Milly-la-forêt ou celle de Barbizon (ou très bientôt par notre site). Un nouveau "top-guide" indispensable aux grimpeurs qui parcourent les circuits des Trois Pignons ou ses voies hors-circuit, bref à tous les bleausards! (voir notre forum pour davantage de détails). (2 responses)
Ivan Moreels presents us a 9½ minutes long realvideo, which asks the retorical question "Why Fontainebleau?". People tend to forget the answer though, judging the language often used in the forum... Last year, Ivan won the first price with this video at an amateur movie festival on the subject adventure sports, so there is no need to elaborate on its quality! By the way, here you can find an overview of our feature movies, that are not listed in the video section with boulder related videos. (0 responses)
Samedi prochain (20 mai 2006) à partir de 16h, il y a une séance de dédicace par les auteurs du nouveau guide Escalade hors piste à Fontainebleau, 6 et +, à la Forêt des Arts (16 Grande rue, Barbizon).
It has been a while since we received a compilation video, so we are glad that Frank Bogerman (famous for his worldcup AXIS climbing holds) sent us five minutes of footage, that was shot last month. We are especially happy that the video, called April fools, also features a strong female climber, as that kind of images are rare!
This weekend we just received the new E9 Spring Summer collection, but this morning the excitement arose even further, as a preview copy of Escalade "hors-pistes" à Fontainebleau, 6 et + was delivered. This is the new topo guide by Jacky Godoffe and Jo & Françoise Montchaussé. They are of course the authors of the famous "purple guide", the best sold Bleau guide ever. The new guide deals with 6th to 8th grade boulder problems outside the circuits, and can already be pre-ordered.
François Louvel points out that a boulder has recently collapsed at Buthiers (sector Piscine) in the corridor of black n°6. See the follow up on this message for the pictures! So next time you visit the forest, don't forget to bring your helmet :-).
Les blocs de Chamarande ont vu passer des générations de grimpeurs (Pierre Allain y grimpait déjà dans les années 30!), en partie pour leur accès rapide (par la N20 ou depuis la gare de RER) mais aussi pour leur intérêt intinsèque. Nicolas Blaise et Cyril Bottolier ont ouvert récemment un certain nombre de voies de niveau 5 à 7, de style parfois très original comme Le Plat Fou, dont ils nous font parvenir les descriptions et des vidéos.
Leur dynamisme ne s'arrête pas là puisque vous pourrez retrouver la plupart des voies (nouvelles et anciennes), accompagnées d'images et de topos, sur leur site internet http://bloc.chamarande.free.fr/ dédié aux blocs de Chamarande et de ses environs. Un grand merci à Nicolas et Cyril, auxquels nous faisons confiance pour découvrir d'autres perles de grès dans l'Essonne! (0 responses)
Décidément, 2006 est riche en nouveautés!
Cette fois, c'est Philippe Ledenmat qui nous promet Monts et Merveilles à condition de marcher 200m de plus sur la Route Mory au delà du bloc aux Mille Visages. Promesse tenue puisque les 46 numéros du circuit virtuel de niveau TD+ qu'il nous propose forment un ensemble très sympathique, homogène et peu exposé, sur un grès tout neuf bien exposé au soleil donc sèchant très vite. Pour la petite histoire, le nom de l'avant-dernier bloc provient du pot de peinture laissé par l'auteur d'un circuit montagne inachevé qui allait de la Merveille à la Mare à Piat, dont on pourra encore distinguer les flèches jaunes. Le secteur étant en bordure d'une zone écologiquement sensible, vous veillerez vous-même à ne pas laisser de traces au sol ou sur les blocs... même si vous croquez les "M&M's" avec plaisir! (7 responses)Welcome to bleau.info, the one stop website about bouldering in Fontainebleau. A short name, which stands for an abundance of climbing beta. With ten thousands of pages, this is the ultimate reference site for Bleausards and Wannabees.
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