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Ambolo

February 3, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

The clifftops around the spectacular Cap de la Nau, beyond Xabia, are crammed with holiday properties, seemingly stuck on at random anywhere there’s a bit of non-vertical space – like […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

La Solana and Lliber RHS

February 1, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

La Solana is a newish crag on the hillside just west of Lliber and immediately above the village of Xalo (Xs seem to have won out over Js in the […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Garx – Formerly known as Las Cerezas (Cherries) and before that ‘Crag X’

January 29, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

Our only previous visit to this crag was under oath not to reveal its whereabouts or even existence – armed with a scribbled topo we had a brilliant day at […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Poet – Les Penyes Roges, Sector dels Pouets

January 28, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

We’ve been climbing on the Costa Blanca for over 30 years and must have accumulated at least a year “in residence” over that time (maybe two!) so there’s always the […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Drive-by cragging on the way to the Blanca

January 27, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

With Omicron in retreat, and restrictions lifting, it’s time to dust off the RockAroundTheWorld machine and get it back on the road. After a Sunday lunchtime Eurotunnel the intervening 4 […]

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Catalunya, France, Languedoc - Roussillon, Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

SunRock 2020 – not quite what we’d planned!

March 21, 2020by Dominic

Wow – it’s barely a week ago (Friday 13th, not that I’m superstitious – or wasn’t!) that we were sitting in the kitchen at Finepark, Finestrat, with the Rucksack Club […]

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Rucksack Club, Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Tierra de Nadie – chasing the shade!

March 11, 2020by Dominic

Sorry for the blog backlog (is that a back-blog?) but things have been a bit hectic for the last week. SPOILER ALERT – WE’VE MADE IT HOME – Story of […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Back to Bunol

March 9, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Bunol gets a big write up in Donde Escalar (full page spread and 4 karabiners) but we’d had a previous recce a few years ago and pretty much failed to […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Chiva

March 9, 2020by Dominic

Yet another pretender to the Castellón climbing crown, Chiva is too recently developed to even make it into the latest edition of Donde Escalar (2018). It does feature in the […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Altura

March 7, 2020by Dominic

As you turn off the A23 at junction 31, just past the Aldi, and head through the well-kept town of Altura, there’s no sign that another of Castellon’s newly developed […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

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

Moixent – Barranc de la Fos

March 2, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Moixent is a pretty little village, just off the A35 west of Vallada. The rocky gorge of the Barranc de la Fos is just north of the village and barely […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Vallada – Escala de la Vida

March 1, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

A blustery westerly had us looking for an east-facing crag – we didn’t have to look far: A bit further up the hillside from the Xorreres sector we’ve already explored […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Tierra de Nadie – Welcome to No Man’s Land

February 28, 2020by Dominic 2 Comments

Tierra de Nadie is a recently developed crag between Montessa and Vallada (hence “No Man’s Land”). It is clearly visible from the A 35 and from the well-established climbing area […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Vallada – Paratge Ermites

February 27, 2020by Dominic

We visited Vallada a couple of years ago on a chilly day and left impressed – the sign-off line on the blog post was: “plenty to come back for”https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2017/02/22/vallada/… and […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Leyva – Carnaval time!

February 25, 2020by Dominic 2 Comments

The main cliff at Leyva, Pared Sur, is one of the most impressive bits of rock in southern Spain – 150m high and about a mile wide, it’s position aloft […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Dalias – La Hormiga and Sanson

February 23, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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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Andelucia, Spain

La Genara in the Alpujarra, Almería

February 22, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Andelucia, Spain

Cacín – into La Sierra de Gádor

February 21, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Andelucia, Spain

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