EA CAF St-Julien en G - Climbing and MTB holiday

After a couple displays of strength, our 7 MTBs and our climbing gears are loaded in the mini-van lended to us by the city of St-Julien and a car. There is only enough space left for the teens! And we're off for 4 days in the Dentelles de Montmirail.

After a couple hours drive, we have finally arrived at our  camping spot. Everybody helps to empty the van and build the tents, eager to get a taste of the exceptional limestone slabs in the area!

We took advantage of the afternoon sun to climb! For most of us, it's the first time of the season that we climb! And we all enjoyed it!

Our day started under heavy rain... so we took out the bikes to explore a bit and to check our knowledge in orientation (in a small forest, with neither sun nor visibility, its easy to miss an intersection...), and we managed it pretty well!

We arrive at the summit with a sunny welcome, and an amazing view on the region.

We come back to our camping and we take an all too welcome shower & lunch before taking off again, this time to climb in the waterfall sector (with of course, artificial and friend placement exercises and multi-pitch belay and rappels).








The next day, the sunniest one of our journey, was dedicated entirely to multi-pitch climbing, where we could be leaders if we felt like it.

Very nice discovery of the central chain of the Dentelles, and Long live cakes!

The last day, the weather is subject to change and we need to get back home, so we decide to do a MTB tour to work a bit on our orientation again. The terrain permits us to make things faster (way faster than the hours spent in traffic jams!...












The teens came back very tired but motivated to come again (video coming out soon)