1789 Straight Ups in Fontainebleau

For anyone visiting Fontainebleau regularly, the 7 + 8 guide by Bart van
Raaij and published in 2002 will be well known. The acclaimed guidebook
stood out for its excellent maps and topos, making less well known areas
and boulder problems for the first time easy to find for non-locals as well.
Also the attempt to describe all the known 7th and 8th grade (straight-up)
problems without exceptions was highly appreciated. After years of renewed
and tedious work, a fully updated edition of Bart's life-work has now been
published, this time with the subtitle '1789 straight ups in Fontainebleau'.



In this new edition, almost 700 additional straight-ups have been described,
next to 90 of the hardest 6c+ bouldering problems. For the first time, 34
classical traverses are mentioned as well. Bart's famous graphical layout sets
new standards for bouldering topos, and due to the completeness of his guide,
a boom of newly defined bouldering problems has emerged.