Orpierre (still)

Two weeks on and we're still in Orpierre. It is just all a little bit too nice to leave... it seemed like quite a small area but we have found plenty of different climbing areas to keep us going. The weather has been hot and sunny most days (apart from a bad couple of days last week with non-stop torrential rain). The repair to the roof of the tent held out however Iain decided to liven up the game by making a new rip in the top of the flysheet as the rain was pouring down....

Here are some more pics of the valley and some of our adventures... as you can see we finally got around to a little bit of multi-pitch, on a huge blade of rock called Ascle high above the valley. The big wall shown below is the Belleric Wall which has lots of excellent vertical and slabby routes on. The picture of Iain climbing is in the Chateua area on a 7c called Restes Avec Moi. Apparently it has a rather scary and run-out section to the top and this is still a project!