Rocca dell’Arma – up into the clouds
With Jake and Leah having a rest day, we took the opportunity to explore the top end of Val Penneveire. Rocca dell’Arma sits at around 1,400m near Colle di Carpauna […]
With Jake and Leah having a rest day, we took the opportunity to explore the top end of Val Penneveire. Rocca dell’Arma sits at around 1,400m near Colle di Carpauna […]
A couple of kilometres further up the Pennavaire valley from Colletta, these three crags line the sunny south-facing flank. They’re only a few hundred metres from the road, but two […]
“The Jail” isn’t a particularly appealing name, but this is a very pleasant crag, if a bit of a hike up hill. All the routes are named after prisons (I […]
A number of factors conspired to see us leaving Germany and heading into Italy (dashing through Switzerland en route without a “Transit Stop” to avoid falling foul of any quarantine […]
Unlike many of the other climbing areas we’ve visited in Southern Germany, the crags are pretty obvious in Donautal (or the Danube Valley) – there are major High Tor sized […]
Blautal is another extensive area of crags in southern Germany, in the Schwabisch Alps, near Ulm. Despite the name, it’s neither blue nor very obviously a valley, with rolling green […]
Neues Tiefenbach is another impressive crag hidden from view, this time above a picture-postcard chapel framed by distant Alps. Just a few hundred metres from the van you can just […]
We were looking for a climbing rest-day and a chance to get a bit higher up into the mountains, and spotted a leaflet for the Salewa Klettersteig on the Iseler. […]
French climbers have a name for conglomerate: Poudinage vividly captures the random collection of glued-together cobbles, stirred together in ancient rivers or perhaps in some Giant’s mixing bowl. If Spain […]
Allgäu (with feedback from a couple of nit-pickers I’ve even managed the umlaut over the second “a”) is the southernmost region in Bavaria, from about an hour’s drive south of […]
Not just a 70s electropop band… but also another 4* limestone crag in the Allgau (though this one is actually a couple of miles into Austria). It’s another impressive chunk […]
Frankenjura climbing is renowned for its profusion (almost a thousand crags), steepness (neck-aching) and pockets (Swiss cheese!) but not generally its height. For the most part, the Fels here tend […]
Rodenstein is a bit of an outlier in Frankenjura – the most westerly in the area and given its own chapter in the guidebook. The crag occupies pride of place […]
The RockAroundTheWorld Trip-Planning Algorithm has been overhauled over the last few weeks, with rock quality and sunshine databases now supplemented with infection rate data and the latest quarantine regulations. We […]