Saturday, August 13, 2011

Annot

We drove down to Annot today, on one of the worst travel days of the year in France (long weekend, and changeover for vacation rentals). We left early-ish, but still got stuck in quite a few mini traffic jams along the way. The first was caused by a car that had driven off the road, and the second was a car vs. motorcycle accident right before the Col de la Croix Haute. Then there was a traffic jam at every little town between Grenoble and Sisteron. Some wag had put up home made signs over the town signs in La Faurie and Aspres-sur-Buech, renaming them temporarily to St. Tropez and Aspres-sur-mer. There was a third town that had been renamed to Frejus, too. Eventually we made it to Annot and after dropping our things off, went to boulder at Requiem for Bloc for a while. There are some excellent problems there, and I'll definitely be going back. The highlight for me was a slopey mantle called "plus de cul". I hadn't been bouldering outside with friends for a while, and had forgotten how fun it can be. It also helps to be in the south of France, with warm summer breezes blowing over you while you relax in a chestnut forest.







After a few hours on the blocs, we headed back to the farm for apertifs (Cerdon, of course!), dinner and Petanque. Somehow I had never played it before, and Chloe, Zoe and I had a blast. Zoe is a little small still to be able to hurl the metal balls very far, but she did well.

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