versailles + font

Versailles.

Generally known for a big castle, its garden and the thousands of people that visit it every day, we decided to go there for the slightly less popular singletrack.

There wasnt much, but it was quality. Leafy, flowy tracks cut up the regularity of the radial forrest roads that are such a defining feature of the forrests around here.

After the ride it was a short roll into Versailles for lunch and then hop the train back in to Paris.

Saturday/Sunday we spent rolling around the beautiful Foret de Fontainebleau. With our climbing shoes left back in Aus, the boulders were safe from a demolishing, but we still managed to barefoot our way up some problems throughout the weekend.

Saturday we spent exploring the Rocher Canon area, SW of Bois-le-Roi, and camped there overnight in a wee amphitheatre of boulders.

Sunday morning we rolled through the forrest into Barbizon for breaky, and then back in to the forrest eastwards to Cuvier. Listed on bleau.info as having 422 boulders sub-7, and 173 boulders at 7a and harder, this was more like font!

Po, above, has just rolled in to the Cuvier area. Smooth, clean landings. Font boulders. Beauty.

Me, below, with my 5.10 barefooters on.