Saturday, April 11, 2009
I didn't get a ton of sleep this night because there was a very fussy baby in a nearby tent, so that was sort of my alarm clock in the morning. The good news was that it hadn't rained again at all overnight, so the showers yesterday afternoon wouldn't impact the rock today.
Nick and I started with another trip to Carrefour to pick up some more food that we would need for the next few days, since tomorrow was Easter and the day after that was "Easter Monday," when a lot of shops would apparently still be closed.
However, this didn't take us too long, and it wasn't long before we were headed up to Rocher Fin. We tried a few red circuit problems here, some of which felt easier than others. We did a good number of 5s, but no 6s. There were also a lot of topouts that I beach-whaled.
We worked on a 6A traverse on a boulder called "The Cube," and even though I did well on it, I didn't get it.
Eventually, though, the weather got significantly cloudier and I got boreder, so Nick and I headed back to the campground, where we picked up the netbook, drove into town, turned off the car lights and everything else, and booked ourselves a hotel in Andorra for tomorrow night (about 40 pounds for a nice hotel, pretty good). It started raining some, but then it was back to the campground for dinner, and by the time we were actually at the campground, it had stopped again.
I headed off to take a shower in the upper shower block, which had hot water again. It took forever because I had to push the shower button every 8 seconds, but I figured that dinner would be done by the time I came out of the shower. Unfortunately, I found a frustrated Nick back at the campsite.
It turned out that neither of his two camping stoves were starting, and his fingers were very dirty from dismantling them. After continuing with that for a while, he eventually let me go up and order a pizza from the guy who comes to the at campground every Saturday to sell pizza out of his pizza van (kind of neat). So I bought a pizza and meanwhile Nick got one stove cooking and made a few (small) hamburgers to supplement (although the stove then fizzed out again later). By the time we were done eating, though, it was totally dark after that boondoggle.
So that was our last day in Fontainebleau on that leg of the trip. It started to sprinkle again as we were finishing cleaning up and stuff before going into the tent, so it was probably good that we were finished there for now.
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