Dalias – La Hormiga and Sanson
Dalias is a small town, halfway between the Sierra Nevada and the Costa del Sol. We were looking for options to extend our stay in the Alpujarra, having decided that […]
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La Genara in the Alpujarra, Almería
We’ve based ourselves at the lovely Almócita campsite, in the foothills of the Alpujarra. After stumbling into the path of the giant white motorhome migration, when passing Granada, it’s a […]
Cacín – into La Sierra de Gádor
As we left Jean, skirting Granada, on the way to Almería, the wall-to-wall olive groves gave way to the white and pink blossoms of the almond trees; all set against […]
Jaén – Castillo de Santa Catalina and Reguchillo
We’d pretty much wrung the last drops from the climbing available in Portugal, which coincided perfectly with the first day of dodgy weather in ages. Time to head East! We […]
Puerto Roque – back into Extremadura, but only just
We’re staying just west of the Portuguese – Spanish border, near Marvão (in sight of its Marvã-ous castle)… in order to climb at Escusa. We thought that it was completely […]
Cerro del Hierro
With a couple of damp days forecast around Malaga we pressed onwards into Seville, and stopped off to check out the climbing at El Puntal near the town of Estepa. […]
Pinares de San Antón
This impressive crag occupies a commanding spot above the coast, just east of Malaga. There’s a south east facing crag above a villa development, but we picked the west-facing crag […]
Back to Puerto Rico
We used a much needed rest day to retreat from the high inland plane around Granada and Jaén (over a thousand metres ASL) ahead of a weather front bringing freezing […]
Reguchillo revisited and so much more around Jaén
Reguchillo was one of the major “finds” from our Andalusia adventures last year, although we only had a short day there between downpours. It certainly ticked the “one to come […]
Los Cahorros
We’d tried to find Granada’s most traditional and spectacular climbing area on a trip about 23 years ago, and didn’t make it to the car park. Armed with GPS and […]
Alfacar and a Velex Rubio recce
Heading towards Granada we decided to recce a promising looking crag at Velex Rubio – just off the motorway and the perfect spot to break the journey… Ah, the wonders […]
Atalaya, Cieza
Hard to believe that almost exactly a year ago we were fleeing the Costa Blanca as howling winds and snow storms swept in! This year we’ve been consistently basking in […]
Mar de Fuego – multi pitch adventure on Frontales Bajas
Last day of the trip so we decided to have a multi pitch adventure – Snr Fernandez’ website came up with the goods in the form of Mar de Fuego, […]
Villanueva del Rosario
Another day of discovery on a new crag – Villanueva del Rosario is about an hour’s drive north east of El Chorro, just beyond Antequerra, and became famous in 2003 […]
El Makinodromo and playing with trains
With the opening of the refurbished “Camineto del Rey” El Chorro is really on the map, with a thousand visitors on busy days! There was certainly quite a procession in […]
Puerto Rico – the Spanish one
After his exertions on Shark Attack Jake decided on a rest day (sensible chap – don’t know where he gets it from), but offered to undertake belay duty for the […]
Frontales and Poema Roca
Back to the sunny side and a day on Frontales. We meandered along without much of a plan until beneath sector Momia, and ended up warming up on a 7a, […]
Desplomilandia – chillin!
I allowed myself to be talked into a day at Desplomilandia on the basis that it felt pretty warm yesterday. Not a problem a few hundred metres higher and on […]
El Chorro and a first day blast at Las Encantadas
We’ve taken a break from the Peak District winter climbing season for a week’s Dad and Jake trip to El Chorro. 4.30am alarm for an early Jet2.com flight had us […]
Back to Cacin
We were so impressed, we went back the next day; rude not to, as we could see the crag from the campsite. Definitely a good move, as Helen cruised her […]
