Fontainebleau Magique

A full colour exciting guidebook for the middle grade boulderer, that is both comprehensive and seeks out the quieter and less visited parts of the giant Fontainebleau forest. There are over 2500 problems in the book, and all are mapped using the latest GPS technology to get incredible accuracy.

This book prides itself on highly detailed maps that guide you around the forest. If you have never been to the Forest before, you will not believe how easy you can get lost - and consequently waste most of your trip searching for the boulders hidden in the forest. Even those boulderers who know Bas Cuvier and 95.2 will still struggle to find any new outcrop. This book should find you 52 great locations with ease.

The text is repeated in both French and English, but with variations to suit the comic styles of each language. The book is also rich with a whole array of icons to amuse and give warning when a problem is high enough to turn from a highball - into a DEATHBALL! There are around 270 colour photographs that illustrate many of the hardest problems in each particular area (In the easier grades of course 3a-5c).

The book has a full grade chart for those not used to the Font grades and are more familiar with V grades. It also shows the comparative grade suitable for your sport climbing ability. All of the problems were climbed for the book and have been re-graded. Much amusement will be had in comparing the new grades with some of the older and more traditional sandbags, but hopefully it will give the newcomer a fairer understanding of the fiendish difficulty undertaken in just a couple of metres of climbing.

Fontainebleau is huge, and has around 10,000 important problems with easily 30,000 variation problems, so putting everything in a single book would give you a gigantic telephone directory. The area is so rich in different climbing styles and levels, that it demands specific books for different interests. This book concentrates on collecting a set of 2500 problems that work together and should appeal to boulderers who like a flowing approach and nothing too powerful or dynamic.