Day 2

We woke early again on Monday after a lot of heavy rain in the evening to find to our surprise a bright and sunny day. So with much expectation we stuck to our original plan and I, Deb, Lance and Lou set off for Bas Cuvier to warm up. We got there to see everything was wet! We decided to continue as planned and headed for Rempart and hoped it was dry. There were a few things dry! I warm up on black 28, no idea what it was, then me and Deb Decided to try Haut Tension (Fnt 7c+), boy is this hard, the top holds were impossible to hold so we gave up. Lance and Lou had headed back down to see if Festin De Pierre (Fnt 7a) was dry but as we meet up with them again it was clear it wasn’t. We need to find some dry rock. As we looked the guide to find some quick drying areas we decided to check out St Germain, but this wasn’t in could condition so late in the day we rushed to Mount Ussy for the last couple of hours of light. We want to check out Ussy Cat (Fnt 7a+) , a must with a name like that and it did not disappoint. A steep overhanging flake high enough the French had pitons in it. I decide to give it a go, second go saw me get the high pocket but not sure what to do drop off. After getting a few more mat’s and spotter’s managed to force my way to through the scary top out. Deb and Lou had found a nice traverse called Le Pro s’talque (Fnt 6a+). Deb quickly dispatched this and Lou was so close as it was getting dark we put our head torches so she could finish it off. After a scary fall on to her back on a boulder of the last move, she picked herself and calmly started again and this time got to the top.
The others went else where, Dean managed to finish off L’Oblique (Fnt 7a) and went on do to Gaviton (Fnt 7a) at Roche aux sobats. Sam went to Cul de Chein and did le Toit Cul de Chien (Fnt 6c). Robin and Steph had a good session at La Gorge aux chats trying Rubis sur l’Ongle and they plan to go back.