Drive-by cragging on the way to Croatia
The RockAroundTheWorld bus is back in action and heading for an autumn escape to Croatia. If you plot a route via the Hull-Rotterdam ferry, you’ll find you pretty much drive […]
Category Archives: Germany
Donautal
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
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 and Grauer Stein – two more sides of Allgäu Limestone
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 […]
Iseler – Kühgund ridge traverse and Salewa Klettersteig
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. […]
Seltmans – German pudding!
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 […]
Into Allgäu – Weihar
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 […]
Kraftwerk Wand – not just a 70s electropop band
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 […]
Roter Fels – 40m Frankenjura Fun
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 …and beer!
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 […]
Back on the road for climbing and cake!
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 […]
Effels, Nideggen
For a final night we were looking for somewhere within striking distance of Rotterdam (3 hours or so), not too far out of our way, and with maybe the chance […]
Weisenstein
Possibly the ultimate crag for a crap day. 2 mins from the road and with climbing steep enough to stay dry in the rain. Perfect for a few routes on […]
Frankenjura – Hoher Reute
24 hours after leaving home we’re camped at Gasthof Eichler in the heart of the Frankenjura, about 700 miles from home (with a bit of help from the Hull to […]
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