Alquezar
Having bid farewell to Bill and Steve, we reluctantly started our journey westwards towards Bilbao and the ferry home. We had time for one last climbing stopover to break the […]
Author Archives: Dominic
Baldellou
We’d recced this crag on our drive through Aragon on our accommodation spotting trip – impressive orange wall set in a narrow gorge above a near deserted road. Looked promising…. […]
Ager 300
More Ager climbing, this time at about 1300m and accessed from above via a winding road that heads over the top of the Montsec d’Ares. Fantastic views from up there, […]
Passarellas de congost de Montrebie
We’d seen a tourism leaflet promoting the area which featured some spectacular and unlikely looking stairway weaving through overhanging bands of cliff and leading to a stunning gorge. After a […]
Ager
After being camped in the village of Ager for almost a week, staring up at the miles of limestone ridge of the Montsec d’Ares, we finally got to climb on […]
Back to Os
Warming up nicely, so we decided to show our visitors the delights of Os. What great climbing, and such a photogenic spot. Everyone enjoyed the collection of 6as and bs […]
Cubells
Another groundhog day, revisiting a crag we went to a couple of years ago. Not the greatest crag in Catalunya, but some very fine climbing and great views over the […]
Santa Linya – Footballin
Parked overnight at the Os de B parking, we’re woken up by the arrival of the olive pickers. The van thermometer shows 4C inside and -1C outside! After a few […]
Os de Balaguere
We finally solved the accommodation conundrum by checking into the campsite at Ager, a fairly bustling village at the foot of the Montsec d’Ares. Famed for its hang-gliding and observatory, […]
Zurita – Here’s one you definitely haven’t been to!
After waking up to a glorious morning in Santa Ana, with the crag drying nicely after the monsoon, we had a change of plan… We’d been exploring options for accommodation […]
Las Devotas – Val de Cinca
After a well earned rest day, we needed a venue for a final day of heat-wave before a forecasted break in the weather. Having been scorched off the crag for […]
Olvena – groundhog day
It is a testament to the amount of tremendous rock in northern Spain that after almost 6 weeks and almost 30 crags, this is the first place we’ve revisited from […]
Foradada de Toscar
This crag went a long way to making up for the disappointment of Bielsa – another great find, situated right next to the road, and with a great range of […]
Bielsa – sector camping (more like sector disappointment)
Having been toasted yesterday, we decided to head up the valley to gain altitude and a bit of coolth. The “sector camping” at Bielsa, about 15km south of the French […]
Into the Aragonian Pyrenees
With the stunning weather set to continue for at least another week, we decided to get some altitude to hopefully enjoy cooler temperatures. We’ve set up camp near Ainsa on […]
Navarra and a trip to San Fausto
After our whistle stop tour of the best couple of crags in La Rioja we passed through Navarra and the city of Pamplona on our way to our rendezvous with […]
Anguilano
The other crag recommended in La Rioja is Anguilano. Like Clavio, this dominates the eponymous village, but rather than a conglomerate muffin it offers a huge swathe of clean-cut slab […]
Into Rioja – Climbing at Clavio
Heading east, we drop over the tail end of the Cantabrian range and stop briefly in the southern Basque country, or Pais Vasques. Everything changes, from landscape to architecture, and […]
Berodia
…well, we did make it back through the tunnel – though a slight asymmetry in the van roof meant we had to let the tyres down for an extra inch […]
Cuevas del Mar
After a peaceful night parked up high above Los Beyos, the arrival of the local hunt prompted an early start – how were we to know we’d camped in their […]
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