Presles

On Monday we arrived in Pont en Royans which is a small town wedged into a very narrow limestone gorge in the Vercors national park. We are camping further up the valley in a place called Chouranche. The valley itself is fairly spectacular but more so are the miles of huge limestone cliffs which cap the north side of the valley of which the photo above shows just a section. The clinbing area is known as Presles after the hamlet which sits on he plateau above.

As they face south (and it is really extremely hot in the sun) action has been fairly limited so far! The real strength of this place seem to be huge multi pitch routes which are out of the question due to the heat and mega hard overhanging tufa routes which are out of the question for at least one of the party! However we have done a bit since we got here and the injured finger seems to be doing ok - (taped up) fingers crossed.






Signing off now but will update soon........