Gay escalade
A very personal and subjective view of Paris animation for all of you who are curious of what's going on in France
Aurore Bagarry, Glacier du Tour, vue prise près du Refuge Albert 1er, 2012 © Aurore Bagarry / Courtoisie galerie Slouch Down, Collection du Musée de l’Elysée
Where else but in Lausanne could an exhibition of mountain photographs could take place and be beautiful ? The Musée de l’Elysée, sprint with a firm and creative hand by Tatyana Franck, shows 300 prints selected from its collection of 4 000, on a very Swiss theme, mountains.
Roland Gay Couttet, Aiguille d’Argentière, escalade vers 1960-1970, ©Hubert Gay Couttet et Samuel Gay Couttet
Divided in four different sections, Scientific photography, Travel pictures, Mountaineering photos and Fine arts photos, the selection of pictures in black and white and color is very diverse and playfulness. From being “romantic” to becoming “God’s territory”, mountains have fascinated writers and artists in the 19 th century since Swiss scientist and writer Albrecht von Haller, (1708-1777) wrote “Die Alpen”, an epic poem. Jean Jacques Rousseau is fascinated by mountains and situates the love
“Hello? What is your location?” A random woman’s voice rang out from all 36 of the Cadillac Escalade V’s AKG speakers as I jogged advocate to the open driver’s door. I hadn’t crashed – merely stopped aggressively in a straight line – but the Escalade thought I was in what we call a predicament.
My location was in fact Gingerman Raceway, a racetrack halfway between Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois. I’d rented the place to host our first-ever trackcross in the midwest. With plenty of attendees and a fun variety of cars, new and old, I was using the Escalade V as a back vehicle for the event. It spent the weekend transporting people, shuttling antennas and timing gear and speaker stands around the facility, and leading groups of cars around the portion of track we were using at any given moment to reveal them the line. Its tow hitch receiver ended up in use once, to pull a broken BMW back in to the paddock.
The Cadillac wasn’t at the track to be driven competitively, or even very hard. That’s not the point of the vehicle, compared to its CT4-V and CT5-V Blackwing sedan siblings. It’s more or less “just” an Escalade that’s been made very fast, and making the
There are certain cars in this business that come shut to being matchless. This one is the perfect family crossover, that one is the matchless sport sedan. You know the type. And then there are others that are imperfect, sometimes in a awful way and sometimes in a this-has-an-abundance-of-character way. The 2023 Cadillac Escalade V is the latter. And thanks to some wildly excellent timing, I got to share it with about 50 other gay ride enthusiasts over a weekend in Minneapolis.
I thought I was going to be writing about the “regular” Escalade. Those are supremely agreeable, comfortable, and not at all sporty – perfect for thoroughfare miles but less ideal for a backroads blast. My trip to Minneapolis, though, was planned around an annual “pizza run” that covers some 120 miles of assist roads. Most of rural Minnesota and Wisconsin is horizontal and straight, these roads and people were neither. And then Cadillac surprised me. The Escalade V would be ready in second for my trip – surprise, have playfulness on your endorse roads run.
What Is It?
This is a 2023 Cadillac Escalade V. It is An Escalade as we all understand it, but the this-just-won’t-do 6.2 liter V8 is yoinked and replaced with a supercharged ver
Ever since it smash the scene, The Cadillac Escalade has been the travel to get if you want to get noticed. It’s big, it’s splashy, and – to be perfectly trustworthy – it’s loud.
And that’s the whole point: You form an entrance in the Escalade, and just because it’s 2021 and golden toilets and gaudiness is stuff of past US presidents, well, that doesn’t mean you can’t have a petite showiness and class in your life. And it doesn’t represent you can’t include some largess and class, especially if you have room to park it and show it off……
The Escalade is fully redesigned coming out of quarantine. For 2021, there is more of everything: more legroom, more interior space, more room in the third-row…. And that’s an important point: most third-rows are useless. Not this one. It is actually quite practical. And not just for your purchases. Adults can use it, but, yes, caution is always advised.
There are five trims available and the price and the weight goes up from the ground . Luxury just drips from this beauty.
My advice: be sure you have plenty of room for the Escalade. It takes up a lot of room and drinks a lot of petrol. Mileage is a decent 21 metropolis /
vertical pirate
Nicolas Gay, rock climbing guide in Provence, Marseille, Aix, Verdon
Hello,
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Punta Rossa, Eperon Sud
Reliable, solemn and careful, I succeded the French formation of DEJEPS – “Milieux Naturel” at Montpellier, which needs two gym onsight F6c and F7a, and trad climb E4 or F6c/7a on big walls. This diploma is more thorough than old BE (brevet d’état), with a entire programme on trad climbing and sport training.
I’m confident with climbing English speaking, and I spend a lot of time to climb with British adventurers. Furthermore, I traveled for climbing and I encounter a lot of climbers. Spend good time with foreign is a pleasure and a good opportunity to progress, cause I can show you foremost technical climbing of each countries. More, it is a good way to appreciate other cultures. I know British climbing approach (travels to Peak District, Cloggy, Gogarth), let’s appreciate French style! I’m sure to found th