So we headed south-east from Fontainebleau through France and many of the fields looked like the picture on the left. That's why it was time to move on, spring had arrived in earnest and day time temps in Font were typically +20 degrees. This is too hot, for me anyway, to climb hard and the alps being at higher altitude and having had such a dumping of snow this winter, promised cooler temps to climb in. They also happen to have some of the best mountain rock anywhere. Our mode of transport is a pretty old automatic Rover that's fuel efficiency is something close to a fully loaded HGV going up a steep hill. Since we had no intention to blow a small fortune getting across France on fuel we had to keep to a cool 60mph top speed. The journey to the Alps was looking long indeed and we decided to stopover en-route in Mulhouse, close to the Swiss border. If you ever come upon this French version of Coventry, keep on driving, the place is pretty awful.
Anyway a restless night in a Formula 1 and we were on our way again with Switzerland in our sights. The plan was to get to Southern Swiss to a valley called Ticino. This is where the boom in Swiss bouldering began and there is plenty of rock here. After spending a day or two there we would move down to the Italian lakes, hopefully i could grow some decent skin, before the short 2 hour drive or so East back through Southern Swiss to Magic Wood for a 3 week stint.
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