Fontainebleau Climbs

The finest bouldering and circuits:
over a hundred maps, nearly forty areas, over a hundred circuits, 3000 routes!

The map graphics are well conceived and easy to use, something like a treasure
hunt really!

The book is organized primarily by `circuits` which were first created in the
1940`s by mountaineers who wanted a way to train for routes. A circuit is a
group of problems forming a `trail` that are roughly the same difficulty.
Generally a circuit will have about 40 problems in it and there are over 200
of these circuits today ranging in difficulty from childrens to elite. This
book covers over 100 of them. There are also `off-circuit` problems which are
generally very hard classics. Lists of specific types of problems (traverses,
problems to improve balance & footwork, and suggested problems to work through
grades) compliment the circuit maps. There are also sections and blurbs of
history and local color that you can read in-between attempts or while
relaxing with a glass of wine!

It is the 2nd edition, with routes and maps updated and revised.