This style of Fontainbleau guide is designed for a group of climbers with big crash pads that move slowly through the forest. It takes each boulder individually and shows every problem available - using photo topos and very high quality aerial plans. This allows a group of mixed ability boulderers to completely work out a boulder - before moving onto the next one; and will be ideal for groups who want to stay together during a climbing day. The photography for this book has taken many years to capture, and is constantly updated to show all of the boulders in the best possible illustrative light, (with now over 50,000 images in the Jingo Wobbly archives). The graphics show all of the grade variations possible on problems, and even illustrate which holds are in or out. The book has been edited by local climbers who regularly climb up to 8c, and reflects the full beta of the forest by climbers who know it inside out. Whilst the 1st edition remains a collectors classic to these timeless boulders, the tiny grade adjustments and circuit changes of this new edition will be tremendously helpful to those new in the forest.
Twenty six principal areas are covered in 100% detail, featuring every possible climbing problem from 1a up to 8c, eighteen individual children's circuits are fully illustrated bloc to bloc, forty eight outcrop maps illustrate the exact location of over 7500 boulder problems - all colour coded and graded and one hundred and fifteen Fontainebleau circuits are fully covered in the book. Details for all local campsites and supermarkets are also included.
There are over 80 superb action photos which feature throughout the book to give it a very enticing feel and there are more boulder photo topos that you can shake a cleaning stick at. An excellent book for first time visitors with really good clear maps.
By David Atchison-Jones.
In English and French.
Card cover, 21cm x 15cm, 320 pages.
Revised reprint, 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-873665-15-2.
This is Volume 1 and covers the most popular areas of the forest; Fontainebleau - Top Secret (Volume 2) covers an additional 9000 problems situated in quieter areas.