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Val de Cinca and Orange Snow

March 16, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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!) […]

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Aragon, Spain

More Calcena and a Rest Day with the Vultures

March 13, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Calcena – a New Addition to our List of Favourite Places

March 10, 2022by Dominic 1 Comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Castillonroi

March 6, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Santa Ana and Alos de Balaguer

March 4, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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. […]

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Aragon, Catalunya, Spain

Valle de Isabena & Alins

March 1, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Escales – Els Escondite

February 27, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Catalunya, Spain

Viuet – Roca Caliente en los Pirineos

February 26, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Catalunya, Spain

Alto Mijares revisited – two years later than planned!

February 24, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Alto Mijares – Olba – Sector Casucho

March 6, 2020by Dominic

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Alto Mijares – Olba – Sector Sol de Invierno

March 3, 2020by Dominic

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Morata de Jalon – Las Torcas

March 5, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Jaraba

March 4, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Torralba – a rest day recce

March 3, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Back on the Road – Morata de Jalon 

January 8, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Alquezar

November 15, 2016by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Baldellou

November 14, 2016by Dominic Leave a comment

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…. […]

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Aragon, Spain

Zurita – Here’s one you definitely haven’t been to! 

November 6, 2016by Dominic 4 Comments

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Las Devotas – Val de Cinca

November 4, 2016by Dominic Leave a comment

​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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Olvena – groundhog day 

November 1, 2016by Dominic Leave a comment

​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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Aragon, Spain

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