Archive for Briançon
c’est une maison bleue [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags 17th Century house, Alps, Briançon, Cité Vauban, fortifications, Hautes Alpes, jatp, kind of blue, Oisans, summer 2020, Unesco World Heritage List, Vauban on August 25, 2020 by xi'an
IFSC 2020, Briançon [jatp]
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags 64 kcal/day, Adam Ondra, bouldering, Briançon, climbing wall, competition, COVID-19, French Alps, Hautes Alpes, IFSC Climbing World Cup, International Federation of Sport Climbing, jatp, on sight climb, pandemics, speed climbing, sport climbing on August 23, 2020 by xi'an
the dawn ½ dome, plus X
Posted in Statistics with tags Alps, Þe Norse face, Briançon, dawn, fortifications, Half Dome, morning light, morning run, Oisans, Serre Chevalier, sunrise, vacations, Vauban on August 21, 2020 by xi'an
midday hike [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Briançon, French Alps, hiking, jatp, La Clarée, Le Queyrelin, Nevache, vacations on August 19, 2020 by xi'an
terrific coincidence!
Posted in Mountains, pictures with tags 9c, Adam Ondra, Briançon, climbing, French Alps, IFSC Climbing World Cup, Oisans, Olympics, Serre Chevalier, speed climbing on August 19, 2020 by xi'an
As it happens I am staying for vacations this year at the right place and the right time since the finals of the climbing World cup. In Briançon, southern French Alps, on the French-Italian border. All other events of the World cup have been cancelled and this will be the only competition of the year (which should have seen climbing becoming an Olympic sport, although sadly in a one-fit-all-skills competition). The competition here remains centred on the hardness of the route, with Adam Ondra one of the advertised competitors. I hope we can be part of the 5000 happy few authorised to enter the competition arena tomorrow, for pandemic reasons…!
