Description

Apremont Est is a little less wooded than the other Apremont areas, so it can get quite hot on sunny days.

On the other hand, it dries quicker.

Probably needless to say that one of the most famous problems here is the infamous La Science Friction. This is the test for your slab skills. Climb it using your hands, fine... You can climb a 5 (or 6a?) slab. But climb this without hands and you're mastered the skill of slab climbing!

Other problems worth mentioning:

* Le Piano (6B)
* Medaille en Chocolat (7A, dyno, slab)
* Onde de Choc (7B)
* Arete du Boucher (7A)

The area offers several circuits:
* Yellow (Nice and easy. Couple of problems might feel tall, but nothing too bad)
* Green (Established in 1952. It's actually a game of 'The floor is lava'. Way harder than you think)
* Orange (Very nice problems, including a tunnel)
* Sky Blue (Starts from Apremont Center, but veers to Apremont Est)
* Red (Hard as nails)
* Black and White (18 problems, climb this and you rock)
* Baltic Blue actually starts here, even though it's a circuit of Apremont Vallon du Solitude)

Apremont Est

The area is access sensitive!

The forest is a sensitive area. So these rules apply everywhere (also outside Font).

* No littering
* No fires
* Brush the holds
* Do NOT climb when the rock is wet! It is very brittle when wet.
* Carry the pads, don't drag them (helps preventing erosion)
* Stay on the paths!
* Absolutely no bivouacing/camping!
Park to the end of Allee des Vaches.

Total walk is around 1100 - 1200 meters, depending where you are heading.

Walk 400 meters, take the left fork in the road, walk for 450 meters, take left. After just 100 meters you'll come to a sandy opening.

Either continue and you'll go towards Apremont Center and Egoiste, where you can take a right and end up to Hyper Plomb and Medaille en Chocolat.

Or take the path to the right, walk to Piano and take left from the first path to the left or the second. First path leads up to Hyper Plomb, second to Onde de Choc.