Nothing new in this post in terms of crags, but a quick update as an excuse to put up some nice pics.

Garx – Formerly known as Las Cerezas (Cherries) and before that ‘Crag X’

… is one of our favourite finds of the last few years, so was a good choice for a catch up with Keefe and Tansy, and Phil and Ali. We had the place to ourselves apart from a solitary French couple. Others may have been put off by the cool forecast, and there was plenty of snow still visible on the hillside opposite…

… but the crag itself was scorchio!

All washed down with beer and tapas at the “Laurel and Hardy” bar in Jalón – who knew that Patatas Bravas aren’t really chips, but actually two of your five!

Tallat Roig

… is another fairly recent find for us, though it’s a long-established crag. It took us a while to find the parking and approach on our first visit so I was careful to bookmark the parking in my blog post, but then totally failed to add a note of the path, resulting in another wasted 10mins. For the avoidance of a future grey point, from the parking on the corner you keep walking further up the track until the concrete ends, at which point a good cairned path heads up and leftwards and then skirts up to beneath the crag, arriving around sector Big Wall.

The arrival of monsoon rainfall brought an end (or at least pause) to our Valencia stay, and prompted a dash to higher ground (and a sunnier forecast) in Lleida. At one point it looked like we might be stuck (literally!) in Gandía for a while as a our van legs sank more than a foot into the “hard” standing. Only some ingenuity, rounding up all the manhole covers from around the campsite, averted one of those “campervan dissappears into giant sinkhole” viral social media posts!