How many boulder problems are in Fontainebleau?

...to the forest The forest is scattered with thousands of sandstone boulders of all shape and sizes offering over 20,000 problems at all grades. In fact, it is composed of several rocky areas, around Fontainebleau, Milly –la-Forêt and Nemours, to name the main small cities.



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If you've wondered how many V17 boulders there are, and who climbed them, you are in the right place. I'll break down, one by one, every V17 boulder problem currently out there. At the time of writing (June 2023) there are currently four boulder problems that have retained the V17 grade.

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Subjectively V4 is the grade where the climbing starts to require good technique but not really any specialized strength. Outdoors it could take about 3–5 years to reach the point where you are comfortable climbing but outdoors is much harder, in the gym I would say about 2 years.

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8c (5.14b): La Fabelita -– Santa Linya (ESP) – December 31, 2015 – First-ever female 8c flash, by Janja Garnbret (her flash of Rollito Sharma two days earlier was downgraded to 8b+).

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The Megatron boulder is located in the Eldorado Canyon. The area is well-known for its multi-pitch trad climbing.

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Fontainebleau (Bleau to the French and Font to English speakers) is a town 50km south of Paris. It's surrounded by a large forest (about 250 square kilometres) which is is scattered with sandstone boulders of all shapes and size.

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Contrary to the folk etymology, the name comes from the medieval compound noun of fontaine, meaning spring (fountainhead) and fountain, and blitwald, consisting of the Germanic personal name Blit and the Germanic word for forest.

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The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Kaihinaki) are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden.

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Hueco Grade System (V-Scale) Although it is open-ended, the range of the scale so far is V0 - V17, meaning that the most difficult bouldering surface climbed so far was rated V17. There are levels that are lower/easier than V0 on the scale, which are designated with a VB which could mean either V-basic or V-beginner.

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