Annot

We got up early today and I made some onigiri, the unbeatable japanese travelling food:

for breakfast and the car. As we got closer to the valley under the Mont Aiguille, we were greeted by beatuful views of mist and fog carpeting the valley floor


and then perfect blue skies above the mont aiguille itself.

We met Amy, Mark, Dave and Sandy (Actually just Sandy because everyine else were off trying to find the boulders) at the Requiem for a Bloc sector in Annot at a little before noon. After the usual stumbling through underbrush, we found the boulders and had a full day of sliding off the perfect sandstone slopers and sanding the skin on our fingertips down. I tried the 'Requiem for a Bloc' (b9) problem, but didn't get very far. I also struggled pretty hard to get Connerie divine b6. Next, we walked over to Place Vendome, which had a boulder with a very unique undulating texture, and a lot of really high stuff as well. Dave experienced the joys of highballing on an unnamed B4 with a heart-in-the-mouth topout. Shortly after, I had my own "don't fall moment" on a
tall B7 on an arete with a nasty landing.

We had a nice dinner at L'Avenue of crustillant de Rouget followed by a daube, and then fell asleep at 10 pm.