Ceuse France (day 2) 7/27

Sweet ass camp at the base of Ceuse (5 ero/night/person)

There were signs of sea life in the rock everywhere... very cool.

Unknown climber doing a crazy hard route. We did a very nice route through the short but horizontal roof in the near right side of the picture.

Mikey working a sweet 7a.

The 7b+ I cranked on the previous day goes up the center of the roof in the far center of the picture 35 meters to the point where the rock is almost vertical.

As mentioned in the previous post the main North part of the wall does not go into shade till 3 to 4pm. So it is a great place to stay up late, sleep in till noon, start hiking at 2 and climb for 5 to 6 hours. That, however, was not in our agenda.

we causually rolled out of bed arround noon, went to town (Gap) and did some grocery shopping, ate lunch, and got ready for the hike. We were up at the wall around 2:00, way to early to climb so we checked out the whole North side.

Around 4 we got on "Silmarils" 7a (other guides called it 6c and we tend to agree), managed to put it up with only 1 take. It was another all time classic and supposedly in the top 10 climbs at Ceuse. After Silmarils we did two other routes further down the wall that were excelent and then moved on to "Harley Davidson" 6c+ (or 6b+ depending on the guide) also suposedly in the top 10 at Ceuse. We saved "Saint Georges picos" 7a (5.11d) for the last climb of the day and it lived up to it's reputation of being one of the best climbs in its grade.

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