Margalef – El Cami de L’Ermita
Another dodgy forecast saw a team head for Barcelona in search of some culture and another make a foray to the coast. The rest of us headed to Margalef in […]
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Sansuies – Placa del Sol (… and showers!)
An unsettled forecast led to much deliberation over guidebooks, Google Maps and various weather apps. Throwing all the data into the melting pot we ended up with a Plan A […]
Siurana – Grau dels Masets – SunRock 2018 Day 1
Day 1 of the 2018 Rucksack Club SunRock Meet, and the “Sun” actually put in an appearance (for pretty much the first time in a week!). We also had a […]
Arboli – sector El Cremat
Crossing fingers that the snow had melted, we headed away from the benign weather on the coast and up into the hills of Sierra de Prades to catch up with […]
Gelida
Bypassing the Sierra de Prades, we sheltered on the coast near Barcelona (lulled to sleep by crashing waves again – not quite the Atlantic but much choppier than the usual […]
El Vellon
Not sure if it’s “The Beast from the East” down here, but there’s a major system of crappie weather covering much of Spain for the whole of the week (and […]
Patones – Ponton de la Oliva
Despite camping within sight of La Cabrera, that isn’t our objective for this trip – multi pitch trad at 1,400m might have to wait for a warmer visit. Instead, we’re […]
Las Munjas – drive-by granite cragging
With the worst of the cold snap forecasted to ease, we’re heading eastwards towards Madrid. We take the scenic route, threading north of the Sierra de Gredos and then to […]
Culture Vultures – Merida Roman remains and Monfrangue National Park
After six weeks on the road it was time for a bit of culture – Merida is said to have the best Roman remains in Spain, and we were camped […]
Alange – turned out Extremadura again
Heading across the border near Braganza we drove via Zamora to Salamanca for the night. We had a vague plan to explore the climbing in the Sierra de Gredos, but […]
Cerro del Hierro
With a couple of damp days forecast around Malaga we pressed onwards into Seville, and stopped off to check out the climbing at El Puntal near the town of Estepa. […]
Pinares de San Antón
This impressive crag occupies a commanding spot above the coast, just east of Malaga. There’s a south east facing crag above a villa development, but we picked the west-facing crag […]
Back to Puerto Rico
We used a much needed rest day to retreat from the high inland plane around Granada and Jaén (over a thousand metres ASL) ahead of a weather front bringing freezing […]
Reguchillo revisited and so much more around Jaén
Reguchillo was one of the major “finds” from our Andalusia adventures last year, although we only had a short day there between downpours. It certainly ticked the “one to come […]
Los Cahorros
We’d tried to find Granada’s most traditional and spectacular climbing area on a trip about 23 years ago, and didn’t make it to the car park. Armed with GPS and […]
Alfacar and a Velex Rubio recce
Heading towards Granada we decided to recce a promising looking crag at Velex Rubio – just off the motorway and the perfect spot to break the journey… Ah, the wonders […]
Atalaya, Cieza
Hard to believe that almost exactly a year ago we were fleeing the Costa Blanca as howling winds and snow storms swept in! This year we’ve been consistently basking in […]
Cocentaina sector Balconet
The Mas de la Penya crag above Cocentaina is one of our favourite discoveries of the last few years; striking diagonal lines on flaming orange rock, but you soon exhaust […]
Busot – Cuevas de Canelobre
Another Busot crag, this time very handily located just above the entrance to this very well signposted tourist attraction, just a few minutes from the road (but resist the temptation […]
Busot – Lower Tier
This stretches across the hillside and is approached from below arriving at the right hand end with sector El Torreon, followed by Jabugo, Circo, Pallitella, Jamon, Karma, and Toki – […]
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