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 […]
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 […]
Monteferro is a small forested peninsula just south of Vigo with a few scattered crags amidst nature walks and fishing spots. The Donde Escalar write up gets it bang on: […]
We’ve established a base at Camping Santa Tecla in A Guarda for the last couple of days, on the banks of the River Miño, which separates Galicia from Portugal. Monte […]
This is the other major crag in southwest Galicia, and occupies a really commanding position just north of the Portuguese border, visible for miles. The shapely granite domes are just […]
Monte Galineiro is one of Galicia’s major climbing areas, tucked in the southwest corner of the region, a couple of dozen km from the border with Portugal, and is one […]
We arrived at Castro de Barona late on Sunday afternoon, just in time for a quick recce. The place was heaving, but with tourists rather than climbers, as the place’s […]
We’re heading west to Galicia to try to outflank a major weather system blowing in from the Atlantic, but that did mean an unpleasant few hours driving through the eye […]
We visited this great little crag towards the end of our Roca Verde tour in 2016 and enjoyed it then. Berodia It’s the ideal stop off as we head west […]
We’re back on the road again! We caught the Portsmouth – Santander ferry, and after a delayed departure (7 hours due to bad weather in the Bay of Biscay) we […]
…well, we did make it back through the tunnel – though a slight asymmetry in the van roof meant we had to let the tyres down for an extra inch […]
After a peaceful night parked up high above Los Beyos, the arrival of the local hunt prompted an early start – how were we to know we’d camped in their […]
After a month in the crags around the Cantabrian mountains, we’re finally moving out of the range of the Roca Verde guide. We’ve visited almost 20 new crags, and still […]
For our last day in Leon we checked out this beautiful gem of a crag, climbing on limestone fins next to a babbling stream and only 2 minutes from the […]
Heading back east from our brief tour of Galicia, via the Sierra de la Culebra which has the highest wolf population in Europe, we have arrived in Leon. The guidebook […]
Another gorgeous day, and another gorgeous crag. Tucked away in a secluded valley running parallel to the main CL626, this kilometre-long crag has a couple of hundred routes that barely […]
The end of the pilgrim trail (apparently more than half a million pilgrims a year were visiting even 1,000 years ago!), we thought we should at least make the effort […]
Galicia is the Spanish answer to Britttany and Cornwall – a granite bit that sticks out bravely into the full force of the Atlantic, with a proud Celtic history and […]
There really is more rock here than you can shake a clip stick at! Plenty of climbing for a week, with a major new sector each day (though to enjoy […]
Tucked away in the adjacent valley, Quiros is Teverga’s sister crag – only 15 minutes away, but different in many respects. About 20 sectors are scattered over the mountainside, somewhat […]