Beguiled in Bergueda
With temperatures finally hotting up across Spain, we had a decision to make: stay south and bask in the sunny flesh pots, or strike out north to explore some new […]
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Castellet and Raco de Farol, Borriol – more Castellón cragging
Wending our way north we checked out a couple more of the multitude of crags covered in the Castellón guidebook, starting with Castellet, just north of Castelló de la Plana. […]
Barranc de l’Avern, Vallada and Montesa (and a brilliant resole job)
There’s loads of climbing in the Costa Blanca hinterland around Alcoy, and we based ourselves at El Palomar for a week or so to explore some new venues and revisit […]
Millena
This is one of the newly-documented crags in the Lopez guide, and we’d earmarked it for a visit last year, but never quite got around to it. It’s a very […]
Chulilla – Sector Cherales (plus a random drive-by bonus)
Helen and I first visited Chulilla almost 30 years ago – a sleepy village, encircled by stunning rock architecture, with a magical tranquility. As visiting foreign climbers, we were a […]
Morata de Jalón (a.k.a. Chodes) – Zaragoza’s Main Event
We’d visited Zaragoza’s premier crag a couple of times before, in contrasting weather, bookending our 2017 winter trip. Looking back, I was impressed by our efforts (not so much the […]
Trasobares
Trasobares is the next village east from Calcena, about six very winding miles (allow 15mins to drive or stroll along the GR90 in a couple of hours) It’s a veritable […]
Calcena revisited – it just gets better!
Calcena, near Zaragoza, was without doubt our favourite discovery of our 2022 Spain trip: With a decent forecast we were keen to introduce Jim and Claire to this delightful part […]
Camarasa – New Finds and Old Favourites
The area around Lleida, and specifically near Camarasa, has an unusual microclimate – often enjoying high pressure and blue skies in winter, even if the air temperature might be struggling […]
Hot and Bove’d – Back to Bovedon and Bovedin
Quite a lot has changed since our last visits to the trio of Bove… crags near Gandía (Bovedon, Bovedin and Bovedos) – we’d probably had only one or two previous […]
Garx and Tallat Roig revisited
Nothing new in this post in terms of crags, but a quick update as an excuse to put up some nice pics. … is one of our favourite finds of […]
Pinet – Off the Radar Paradise
Our chance encounter with Kev and Jen at Cucala was not just a happy reconnection but also resulted in a top tip for a new climbing area to explore… The […]
Algimia d’Alfara – a bit of a Marmite crag
Mid morning in Navajas and it still only says 2C on the outside thermometer. Plenty of time to scour the web for a sunny sheltered crag, the problem being that […]
Cucala and Araya – Rock Around Castellón
Those of you who know me well will have me down as a bit of an app junkie, which is a fair assessment. Our new favourite climbing website is TheCrag.com […]
Rock hungry and windswept – climbing in Alto Palancia, Castellón
RockAroundTheWorld is back on the road! After a mildly harrowing journey (engine warning light on the way to the ferry, and Force 9 in the Bay of Biscay) we were […]
ROCKAROUNDTHEWORLD RETROSPECTIVE – THE 2004-5 BIG TRIP PART 4: The Four Corners – exploring the SW USA Deserts
If you missed the first three installments of our Big Trip Retrospective, you can follow our blast around Eastern Europe and Scandinavia here: Europe , our trip across the Rockies here: Rockies and […]
Walking in a Winter Wonderland (not to mention Bouldering, Running and Climbing)
Our return from the extended Mediterranean heatwave coincided with quite a change back in Blighty. A “Siberian High” weather pattern dominated by a huge area of high pressure centred over […]
Grand Finale
We’d set out for Croatia unsure how long the autumn weather would be fit for climbing – banking on a couple of weeks, but daring to hope for more. Almost […]
Cikola and Krka National Park
Cikola is described as the fastest-developing climbing area in Croatia, with the first routes only established in 2015; it now boasts over 250. Cikola is the largest tributary feeding the […]
Split (part 2) – Markezina Greda, Bobanova Greda and Marjan
With so much climbing around our beach-front residence at Camping Stobrec, Split, I had to SPLIT it into two posts. This one, somewhat arbitrarily, takes in three crags to the […]
