To mark the opening of its new Baie au Chêne climbing site, the Eastern Bloc climbing center will hold the first edition of the Pointe-à-la-Croix Climbing Festival until Sunday. Dozens of participants answered the call on Saturday.
For two days, the event will offer amateurs climbing initiation sessions, a conference, a film screening as well as yoga, Pilates and rope dancing.
The Bloc de l’Est was able to inaugurate the site after two years of trying to link it to the Fédération québécoise de montagne et d’escalade (FQME). The group currently has 80 rock climbing sites throughout Quebec.
The goal really is to initiate people, because not too many people climb here. [On voulait aussi] Invite the climber to go and try the siteexplanation of the festival organizer and president of the Eastern Bloc, Guillaume Arbor.
The potential for climbing is really great [sur le site de Baie au Chêne], the stone is of good quality and it is really interesting. There is something for all levels, beginner and expert. I think everyone can see their account herelaunched Guillaume Arbor.
The director of external sites FQMECharles St-Louis specified that the Gaspésie was not a recognized region for its climbing areas, and this, because of the poor quality of the rock.
” It will be a smaller site, with high-quality routes in an area where there are very few. It is a quest, it will be a gem of the Gaspésie. “
Visitors to the site’s festival on Saturday agreed with him. Many climbers from all over Quebec openly traveled to explore the area.
Isadora Lacourse learned about climbing thanks to the training offered on the first day of the festival. I was able to make the whole wall thanks to all the great volunteers who beat us up and gave us tips. I’ll keep it up, I’m sold out nowejaculation of female Rimouski.
I was shocked. I had the impression that in Gaspé, it was a crumbly rock, but it was fun to see that there were still sites we could develop.added Gabriel Bédard.
Rimouskiers aren’t the only ones surprised by the availability of this new climbing wall.
” I went up to a gym in Montreal a few weeks ago and I saw posters for it. I was a bit intrigued because I didn’t know there was rock climbing shovel in Gaspésie. “
I have never been to Gaspésie and I was allowed to climb. When I travel often, I chase rock faceslaunched Gabrielle Legal, who came from Quebec for the occasion.
About twenty climbing routes have already been set up over the rock of Pointe-à-la-Croix and about fifty should be accessible by the end of the summer.
The first edition of the festival is not yet finished, but organizers are already considering a second version as well as making the event permanent.
There is information from Isabelle Larose
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