North of Granada – Moclín and Tiena
The bulk of the crags in the Granada guide are north of the city. We’d chatted to a couple of climbers at Capileira the previous week – a Welsh woman […]
Category Archives: Spain
Las Alpujarras
Las Alpujarras is a natural and historical region in Andalusia on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The average elevation is 1,200 metres, and there’s generally a view of […]
A to Z on the way to Granada – Ayna to Zújar
We were heading to Granada to catch up with Jim and Claire for a week’s flying visit. Rather than blast around the coastal motorway system, we opted for the cross-country […]
L’Amagatall del Cabeçò
This is a long post for a small crag owing to some spectacularly unusual routes and some great pics of them. The “magic” of Facebook (tongue in cheek, but it […]
Vinalopó – Alicante beyond the Costa
There’s much more to Alicante climbing than the Costa Blanca, and the publication of a new guidebook to the hinterland region in the Vinalopó River valley presented a good excuse […]
Clubbing on the Costa (Rucksack Clubbing that is!)
Nope, we haven’t been out on the lash in Benidorm – we’ve been enjoying the company of the Rucksack Club on the Costa Blanca! For about a dozen years, Helen […]
Another Spot of Bove… Bovesponja
Camping Escalada, near Gandía, is a pretty handy stopover on the way south towards the Blanca, and perfectly situated for the string of crags which form a backdrop: Bovedon, Bovedos […]
Ròtova – a hidden gem
More scouring of the Internet threw up another interesting sounding crag in the vicinity of Gandía, and only 15mins from our base at Camping Escalada. Ròtova might only have about […]
More Rock Around Castellón – Xert, Ayódar and Torrechiva
The Baix Maestrat region is towards the north of Castellón, inland from Vinaros, and with a damp day in prospect we took the opportunity to relocate to explore another bunch […]
Rock Around Castellón – Botalaria, Torres d’en Domenec and Murs
RockAroundTheWorld is back on the road, heading to Spain and armed with a box full of new guidebooks that Santa managed to squeeze down the chimney. First stop Castellón, to […]
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 […]
Petite Aiguille d’Ansabère, Vallée d’Aspe. South Spigolo
Our third Pyreneean objective from Parois de Légende took us back over the French border, and north west into Vallée d’Aspe, which is the next valley west of the Ossau […]
Tozal del Mallo, Ordesa: Las Brujas – Franco-Espagnol
An hour’s drive south east took us to the tiny town of Torla-Ordesa, and the launch point for exploration of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park – home to […]
Sud-Est Direct, Pic du Midi d’Ossau
Episode 12 of Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventures touched down at Bilbao Airport (you might recall that our 2022 Utah adventure was inadvertently christened Episode 13, owing to a counting […]
Araotz YECTOYD and a Santander Seaside Send-off at La Arnia
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 […]
Dos Hermanas – Balcon de los Buitres
Dos Hermanas, or The Two Sisters, are a pair of impressive limestone towers guarding a pass near the town of Irurtzun. Somewhat incongruously they’ve now squeezed the A15 autopista between […]
Etxauri at last!
Wending our way westwards towards Santander and our ferry home, we crossed into Navarra – you know you’ve arrived in the Basque speaking part of Spain because all the place […]
Riglos Revisited – More Pudding Please!
Nearing the end of our traverse of the Pyrenees, a fine day’s forecast coincided with us passing Riglos, and the opportunity to drop in was too good to ignore. The […]
Perambulations along the Pyrenees
To get from Berga in the east of the Pyrenees to Pamplona in the west, you can follow motorway pretty much the whole way, and it would take about 6 […]
Cavallers
Cavallers features in the POD Lleida guide and has been on our “to be explored” list since 2014. However, set high in the Pyrenees at 1,800m and without a solar-powered […]
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