I picked Mont Aigu becuase it was only a half an hour walk from town and I had been there before. It had some great problems that I wanted to try again and I had only gotten a small taste of the area previously. It was a weekday and not an area that gets a lot of traffic so I was expecting to be alone for the day. The morning I climbed by myself and worked through some relatively high problems without a spotter or pad. I was psyched to see that my mental game was good. A little later I was surprised when I heard voices coming down the trail and even more surprised when I could tell they were speaking American English. Though I enjoyed the solitude of the morning the luxery of a spotter would be nice. After chatting with them I learned that one of them, Rob, was a student at the University of Chicago where I had gone to school and he knew a bunch of my friends from there. It is a small world. We climbed together for a few more hours before I had to head back to Paris. The weather was perfect and the rock was as good as it gets.

I am now schemeing how I can get back there again.