Page 11 - 2001 AMA Summer

jhard taking a h< :a Demande, Vdi
Jason and Danny managed an excellent ascent of La Demande a soaring crackling that rises from the base of the gorge terminating with an awesome bridging chimney section. The twelve pitches of climbing are sustained, never any less than French 5a but with six pitches of French 6a (about 5b) and the route is only bolted in the parts where traditional protection is hard to find. It required a range of skills extremely wide bridging, long jamming sections, long layback sections and a bit of face climbing. Truly awesome and despite the decent w'eather there were no other parties on the entire route.
All in all through luck with the weather and these lesser known areas due to the rise of Spain for climbing at this time of year the meet was a great success. Everyone managed to push their grades a little on huge routes while developing sqn tans beside the sea, and managing in excess of 70 routes in the 6 days of actual climbing.-'' This should definitely be considered as a worthy equal to Spain for future Hot Rock meets.
By Lt Jason Ainley RE