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La Plage Guide

  • Grade context: FR
  • Ascents: 18

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Contributors

Thanks to the following people who have contributed to this crag guide:

Paul Badenoch Erwan Legrand Campbell Gome Nans Toullec Matt Brooks Maiia Piratinskaia Helge Øystein Maakestad Philipp Wellmann Jens Rohloff Loic Zehani

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Table of contents

1. La Plage 16 routes in Sector

Summary:
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Seasonality

All Sport climbing

Lat / Long: 43.821694, 5.380353

description

Like a "Bout du Monde" light and a popular hangout with a concentration of good bouldery routes in the upper 7s.

access issues

Climbing is only authorized from the sectors "Face Ouest" to "Bout du Monde" on the Aiguebrun cliff. All the other areas, including the Confines cliff (on the opposite side) are currently on private land and are closed. Camping and fires are prohibited.

Climbing was forbidden in Buoux for more than a decade. The last area to have been reopened is the Face Ouest area which was re-opened in 2010 with many new routes and some classic lines rebolted.

Not respecting these rules could lead to the area being closed again.

inherited from Buoux

approach

Old stairs from below. Approaching from the right is not recommended.

ethic

  • No camping
  • No sleeping in car parks
  • No fire
  • Don't leave any trash
  • Brush off your chalk and tick marks
inherited from Buoux
RouteGradeStyleSelected ascents
1 Le Bombé Bleu

A short and bouldery 7c approach before a big ledge. Then 5 moves before a very powerful and extreme boulder problem :

A single move crux sequence, probably 8A+ boulder problem, with two possible sequences :

  • Left from shallow mono.

  • Right from RH undercling.

Could be 'easy' for someone 1,85/90 M using the right sequence.

Crux followed by 10m of pockets with two 8A boulder problem without rest.

Then there is a last section which is 7c.

The "first move" is very mysterious because anybody who have tried the move have done it before 2023 :

Nicola Pelorson became the first climber in the world to do it.

The route is a Myth.

French climbers working on the route

Set: Marc Le Menestrel, 1991

SportProject 30m
2 Acapulco 7c Sport
3 Exces de Zele 7c Sport
4 Sous les Paves 7c+ Sport
5 Passage 7c+ Sport
6 La Ouate 8a Sport
7 Le Cadeau Empoisonné

Set: Buno Fara & Hervé Laillé, 1986

7c Sport
8 Gedeon 7a+ Sport
9 Scorpion 7a Sport 4
10 Kookaburra 7a+ Sport
11 Cool Raoul 7a Sport
12 Relax Max

The number of bolts listed (9) includes one for the anchor and doesn't include the first, which is clipped from the ground just next to the belay station.

6b+ Sport 20m, 9
13 Tranquille Bill 6b Sport
14 Paradis Artificiel 7c Sport
15 Il Moro de Venezia 7a Sport 3
16 Chocolat Moto 7a Sport

2. Index by grade

Grade Stars Name Style Pop
6b Tranquille Bill Sport
6b+ Relax Max Sport 20m, 9
7a Chocolat Moto Sport
Cool Raoul Sport
Il Moro de Venezia Sport 3
Scorpion Sport 4
7a+ Gedeon Sport
Kookaburra Sport
7c Acapulco Sport
Exces de Zele Sport
Le Cadeau Empoisonné Sport
Paradis Artificiel Sport
7c+ Passage Sport
Sous les Paves Sport
8a La Ouate Sport
? Le Bombé Bleu SportProject 30m
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