Exploring

We had seen ropes up near the pont de Valchevriere, in the Gorges de la Bourne several times on our way to Goulandiere, but had never had the chance to explore the site. Having been rained off la Maye yesterday, we decided to make an easy day of it and see if there were any bona fide routes. After a dicey river crossing in which Chloe head butted and bloodied my nose, followed by a death scramble up a dusty slope we arrived at an impressive cliff. It had a big flat grassy section which was perfect for belaying, solid looking rock, and routes .... that went no where! As we walked along the cliff it became increasingly obvious that the cliff was just being used for bolting practice. I think there are probably enough in this rock, for example:


Later that day, Mark and I scouted several locations near the Mont Aiguille for his HDR lighting stuff. Hopefully my chromes will look good enough to use. I felt very old school next to his shots which a)require no scanning and b)will have dynamic range many times greater than mine when they're done.