Ready To Listen

Last weekend, as planned, I went climbing. I even took some pictures! Saturday was at La Clape and it rained on and off all day until about 4, when the weather decided to chase us off for good. Sunday at Seynes was brilliant, though. It was sunny and probably in the 60's. Turns out that sometimes February in France is about like July in Montana.

Here's Adrien, warming up on a 6b that would be one of my better climbs that day.


Here's Fabrice, making his way out of the muscly start of a 7a+ onto the impossibly blank "slab" to the chains. Behind him a shirtless hardman is working a famous 8a+ called "dinosaure".


Here's Fabrice again, making the second clip of a two pitch 7b/7a+ called "Masculin Feminin". 35m of madness linked together.The rock at Seynes is absolutely impeccable. Seamless, bulletproof, overhanging limestone that seems to have been crafted with French sport climbers in mind. We were super lucky to have good weather, and I'm hoping the sun will be back today (I'm going climbing at Thaurac this afternoon) and this weekend, for the Pyrénées Orientales.

In other news, this week's playlist is called "Ready To Listen". Two new tracks bookmark the playlist, and as per usual there's a story going on in there.

"Ready To Listen"

1 Harmonix - Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
2 Fever Brooks - Other Girls - Perfect Cities
3 Water Turns Back - Cloud Nothings - Turning On
4 Obstacle 1 - Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
5 Oh What A Feeling - The Organ - Thieves
6 This Modern Love - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
7 Goodnight Laura - Spoon - Transference

Download here.

Enjoy!

Edit: Fixed link. Sorry! Mediafire's been flaky lately, I'll make sure to do more testing next week before I post the link.