Val de Cinca and Orange Snow
With Storm Celia lashing much of Spain with rain, we headed north into the Pyrenees once again, which was counter-intuitively forecasted to have better weather (better but not necessarily great!) […]
Category Archives: Aragon
More Calcena and a Rest Day with the Vultures
The forecasted “Big Rain” wasn’t much more than drizzle, and it was at least as wet everywhere else, so we stayed put in Calcena. To pass the time we made […]
Calcena – a New Addition to our List of Favourite Places
Many of you will be familiar with our favoured reference source for exploring Spain (at least in print) – Donde Escalar has inspired numerous happy finds over the years, and […]
Castillonroi
Helen stumbled on this series of crags on the web, and it gets a 3 carabiner rating in Donde Escalar (out of a maximum of 6) this roughly translates as […]
Santa Ana and Alos de Balaguer
A couple of return trips to places we’ve been before – albeit new sectors. I signed off my 2014 Santa Ana post with: Definitely somewhere we’ll return on future trips. […]
Valle de Isabena & Alins
Valle de Isabena runs parallel to and to the west of the main thoroughfare from Lleida to France – in fact Google maps routed us along it on the way […]
Escales – Els Escondite
The Escales section of the guidebook runs to almost a hundred pages, with a dozen sectors and a couple of hundred routes in the vicinity of the reservoir of the […]
Viuet – Roca Caliente en los Pirineos
OK – did anyone guess right? After much forecast-searching and head-scratching on a rainy morning in Alto Mijares we set the controls of Rockaroundtheworld for the Heart of the Sun […]
Alto Mijares revisited – two years later than planned!
Another of the highlights of our ultimately truncated 2020 Spain trip was our discovery of this climbers’ paradise near Olba, in southern Aragon. Five hundred routes on superb orange and […]
Alto Mijares – Olba – Sector Casucho
Waking up in the van at the Alto Mijares refugio, and looking out of the bedroom window; hrmmm, where shall we go climbing today? The top of the canyon immediately […]
Alto Mijares – Olba – Sector Sol de Invierno
The recently developed climbing area of Alto Mijares is near the village of Olba in the far southern reaches of Aragon. It is surrounded by far more famous and well […]
Morata de Jalon – Las Torcas
Our trip has come almost full circle. We stopped off at Morata de Jalon for a few routes on our first day off the ferry on the way down. This […]
Jaraba
Jaraba-Daba-Do! …as Fred Flintstone would say. This crag was recommended to us by a couple from Zaragoza who we met at the Moraira sea cliffs, and gets 5 crabs in […]
Torralba – a rest day recce
Using a damp forecast for a much needed rest day, we headed north into Aragon and Zaragoza province, with a slight detour to check out Torralba. Trusting to GPS we […]
Back on the Road – Morata de Jalon
After 24hrs on the ferry, and an overnight stop in the car park of a wildlife park near Santander (complete with elephants! ) we woke to dazzling sunshine and […]
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 […]
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…. […]
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 […]
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