This means that your
usual route selection is at least 7a, with warming up in 6b or 6c. Of course
most French crags exhibit 7a or 7b routes but some of them have an important,
sometime exclusive, series of very severe overhanging routes:
- Buoux
- Le Cimaï
- Claret
- Neuville-sur-Ain
- Troubat
- Ablon
- Gorges du Tarn
- Le Boffi
- St-Géry
- Volx (departement 04, see Guide des Sites Naturels de
France)
- Cantobre (departement 12, see Guide des Sites Naturels de
France)
- Tirounère, Alentou, la Devèze (département 66, see Guide
des Sites Naturels de France)
- Vallon Sourn / Correns / Châteauvert
- Chabanne, less steep but with 45 routes from 7a to 7c.
- Orgon-Canal.
- Forge du Diable.
- Pupuce Surplomb, Jurassic Park (see
www.multimania.com/grimppg/pupuce.htm, www.multimania.com/grimppg/jurassic.htm).
- Bougaux - Roquemissou.
- Quinson-Aspre.
- Cirque des Baumes, below Point Sublime, Gorges du Tarn.
- See also Fontainebleau's bouldering areas having black and/or
white circuits : le Cuvier,
Apremont, Franchard-Isatis, Le
95,2, Puiselet.
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