Nice is Nice

Well the time spent since updating last has been jon and myself camping out at the wall roughing it out. Its nice during the day having people we know come up to the wall so we weren't feeling completely isolated, but as soon as the sun went down its just us two....and the beast. It seems that every night just as we are preping up for bed, there is a ruffling noise in the forest just below that seems to dart by the wall, only to leave after jon and I cave man it by just throwing a lot of rocks until it goes away fo sho. Well anyways, I digress. So I thought we weren't gonna be able to update that well do to the fact that there isnt any wifi or outlets to charge shit at the crag. It wasn't until the other day while resting that Jon decides to take it to the limit....so we just go hitchhiking. Turns out just a 10 minute drive away is a extremely quaint, and EXTREMELY touristy, town of Tourettes sur Loup. there one can stroll down the medieval looking streets with all the greenery hanging from the windows to give it a magnificent scent of all the flowers of the region. At the heart of the old part of town is the Dix sur Dix, a cool juice bar/coffee shop/FREE WIFI PLACE!! So it is pretty well decided where we shall spend our rest days from now on. In accordance with the syke of finding this place, we start pondering....so we ended up escaping the beast for the night by heading to nice(45 minute bus ride only 1 euro!) and enjoy the beach and all the people on it spending there last week of summer vacation here. Now, its back to the caveman life for us, we need to stay focused and get our projects done!!!

How to do a rest day in the Cote D'Azur

So today was a down day after Jon and myself did an epic 3 days at the deverse wall. Us and some homies headed to a beach just next to Cannes, France to spend the day. As we are walking down I hear our french friends talking about the spot we are going and happened to catch the word arch, our eyes lit up right away. Just next to the beach was a rad mini es pontas arch and as soon as we could, we went to check the lines. It turned out just getting out of the water was really hard, me and jon epiced for a while until we found some nice lines with solutions getting us a decent height above the water before fear made our foot slip or barely miss the hold and plummeted us into the water. Later on we enjoyed a nice dinner with a tasty french beer 'Desperados", and yes I am aware of the irony that it sounds like a mexican beer.

Im really bad at updating

So yeah, a while ago i said id start putting it all on the blog about whats goin down...im just a little apathetic is the problem. So I have finished my A Muerte training with david macia in spain and have been in Nice, France climbing in Gorge de loup the past 2 weeks. Needless to say the crew here has been crushing, here are the notables:
Sean McColl:
-4 .14bs: Quenelle Trophy, Hot ChiliX, Total Eclatch, 7 PM Chaud
-4 .14as two of which(Hot Chili Beans and Honk) were flashes!!!

Jon Cardwell:
-Ultimate Sacrifice, .14b/c first go after the easier entrances!
-Qoussai de la fin, .14b 4th try
-last Soul Sacrifice, .14b
-New Power Sacrifice, .14b a solid send while still dealing with jetlag
-Karoshi, .14a, fourth go in a day

Myself:
-Qoussai de la fin, .14b
-Last Soul Sacrifice, .14b
-Quenelle Trophy, .14b
-New Power Sacrifice, .14b

So obviously we are all syked right now. Yesterday was day number 3 of climbing for me and Jon. At a wall as burly and intense as Devérsé, 3 full days of going up only 5.14 pitches, cuz thats all there is at the cliff!!, is damn-hard. Even this being so, We both managed to haul our exhausted selves up the overhung, 120 foot long route Qoussai de la fin! after my BIRTHDAY send and falling off the last bolt of hot chiliX, and Gerome Pouvreau finishing off the SUPER proud Triptik Tonic, .14c, We had a little celebration dinner at the photographers, Philipe Maurel, house. An amazing plate of pasta and a lot of wine just comes to show that whether in the Deep South in the states or the Cote D'Azur in France, Southern Hospitality always is AWSOME!