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Isatis. We joined Roland and Holly for a day at Isatis, revisiting old favorites and discovering new ones, such as L'Angle Ben's. L'Angle Ben's (shown below) is the Cocaine Corner of Fontainebleau, complete with glassy feet and sharp rock beneath the arete. Pinkies required, apparently.




In the afternoon we made our way further up the hill to El Poussif, so that I could try (once again) to hold onto that pinch and turn the mantle. The pinching feels much better this year, but I still haven't quite figured the mantle out. This picture doesn't really do the boulder justice, the way the pinch snakes from left to right. It is a bizarre rock formation--which always seems to make for good climbing.