Santa Linya
For our final “airport” day we make a shortish drive to Santa Linya, and enjoy some of the steep juggy routes on sector football, a favourite of Helen and mine. […]
Category Archives: Spain
More pudding please!
The French call the conglomerate rock of Riglos “poudinage” – after the similarities with a lumpy fruit pudding. For our second helping we head over to Le Pison for the […]
Fiesta de Los Biceps
Rightly celebrated as one of the best routes in Europe, if not the world, I’d climbed Fiesta de Los Biceps about 6 years ago with Bill. At the time, Jake […]
The reason I don’t do rest days
My self-appointed coach announced that Day 4 of the trip was a rest day. He’s probably right, but it just seems ungrateful not to be climbing when there’s this much […]
Camarasa
Sunshine and temps in the high teens so we need to take the vampire somewhere shady – in fairness to Jake, it is pretty sticky in the sun. Camarasa is […]
Brutal at Bruixes
We spent a few days at Terradets last year, studiously avoiding sector Las Bruixes (The Witches). With just half a dozen routes under 7b and a reputation for polished sandbaggy […]
Viva Catalunya
We’re back in Spain for a boys break near Barcelona. Having finally arrived around 1am (thank you to the French air traffic control dispute ) we made a late arrival […]
Adios Chulilla
Our last couple of days in Chulilla were a repeat of the first two, with one spent on the Pared De Enfrente and a second at Oasis. Plenty of people […]
Oasis – more climbing in the shade :-(
Chilly in Chulilla today – so where better to go than the shady Oasis sector; a north facing crag in a wind tunnel. The base of the crag is covered […]
Chulilla – and a great view from a toilet window
We’re staying at the rifugio in Chulilla and they’ve really done it up since we last stayed here about 15 years ago. Lots of blond wood, stainless steel and glass. […]
Cabreras – Happy New Year
A late start and Jake took the “sensible” plan of a rest day and some revision. I decided that a sunny day was too good to waste, so went for […]
Sunny climbing on New Year’s Eve
As a special treat we were allowed to climb in the sun, with broken cloud and a gentle breeze making for comfortable conditions. We went to a “secret crag” near […]
Escape from the Floods
With much of the North under feet of water, and leaden skies warning of Storm Frank’s impending arrival, it seemed like a good time to head for the sun. After […]
Rockamura
It was hard to tear ourselves away from Chulilla, but the desperate need for a rest day combined with an equally desperate need for a shower, and coincided with forecast […]
Chulilla – Sector PARED DE ENFRENTE
Back on the sunny side, and there’s more fantastic quality climbing to be had on PARED DE ENFRENTE. Perhaps the route of the sector is the stepped overhanging groove / crack […]
Chulilla – Sector Oasis
This is where the bulk of the new development has taken place. About 4km of 80m crag, with hundreds of routes that barely scratch the surface of the full potential. […]
Chulilla – Sector Lamentations
We’ve had a few days at Chulilla over the years – Smitten with the fantastic rock architecture, but never really getting much out of the climbing – many of the […]
Bunol
Heading gently north we stopped in at Bunol – another of the top 60 crags. … Bunol is most famed for the tomato festival when tens of thousands of people […]
El Picayo
Another good crag in a spectacular setting. Just a couple of dozen routes, but mostly 35m long and in a beautiful valley. Toasty too!
Cocentaina
One of the finds of the trip, Cocentaina is an orange splash of highly featured rock on an otherwise grey hillside. Not much in the way of warm ups, but […]
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