Naranjo de Bulnes or Picu Urriellu
Our (or rather “my” if I’m honest) rather ambitious agenda for this Paroi de Légende trip came in two parts: 1) aiming to bag three 1,000ft plus EDs on three […]
Our (or rather “my” if I’m honest) rather ambitious agenda for this Paroi de Légende trip came in two parts: 1) aiming to bag three 1,000ft plus EDs on three […]
Our third Pyreneean objective from Parois de Légende took us back over the French border, and north west into Vallée d’Aspe, which is the next valley west of the Ossau […]
An hour’s drive south east took us to the tiny town of Torla-Ordesa, and the launch point for exploration of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park – home to […]
Episode 12 of Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventures touched down at Bilbao Airport (you might recall that our 2022 Utah adventure was inadvertently christened Episode 13, owing to a counting […]
Araotz is one of the most significant climbing areas in the Basque Country, with over 400 routes either side of a steep sided valley, near the town of Oñati (best […]
Dos Hermanas, or The Two Sisters, are a pair of impressive limestone towers guarding a pass near the town of Irurtzun. Somewhat incongruously they’ve now squeezed the A15 autopista between […]
Wending our way westwards towards Santander and our ferry home, we crossed into Navarra – you know you’ve arrived in the Basque speaking part of Spain because all the place […]
Nearing the end of our traverse of the Pyrenees, a fine day’s forecast coincided with us passing Riglos, and the opportunity to drop in was too good to ignore. The […]
To get from Berga in the east of the Pyrenees to Pamplona in the west, you can follow motorway pretty much the whole way, and it would take about 6 […]
Cavallers features in the POD Lleida guide and has been on our “to be explored” list since 2014. However, set high in the Pyrenees at 1,800m and without a solar-powered […]
Actually “Poudinage” or pudding is the French slang for conglomerate, and we’re on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees (but only just) so you’ll have to excuse the language mash-up. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, 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 […]
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 […]