Castellet and Raco de Farol, Borriol – more Castellón cragging
Wending our way north we checked out a couple more of the multitude of crags covered in the Castellón guidebook, starting with Castellet, just north of Castelló de la Plana. […]
Category Archives: Valencia & Costa Blanca
Barranc de l’Avern, Vallada and Montesa (and a brilliant resole job)
There’s loads of climbing in the Costa Blanca hinterland around Alcoy, and we based ourselves at El Palomar for a week or so to explore some new venues and revisit […]
Millena
This is one of the newly-documented crags in the Lopez guide, and we’d earmarked it for a visit last year, but never quite got around to it. It’s a very […]
Chulilla – Sector Cherales (plus a random drive-by bonus)
Helen and I first visited Chulilla almost 30 years ago – a sleepy village, encircled by stunning rock architecture, with a magical tranquility. As visiting foreign climbers, we were a […]
Hot and Bove’d – Back to Bovedon and Bovedin
Quite a lot has changed since our last visits to the trio of Bove… crags near Gandía (Bovedon, Bovedin and Bovedos) – we’d probably had only one or two previous […]
Garx and Tallat Roig revisited
Nothing new in this post in terms of crags, but a quick update as an excuse to put up some nice pics. … is one of our favourite finds of […]
Pinet – Off the Radar Paradise
Our chance encounter with Kev and Jen at Cucala was not just a happy reconnection but also resulted in a top tip for a new climbing area to explore… The […]
Algimia d’Alfara – a bit of a Marmite crag
Mid morning in Navajas and it still only says 2C on the outside thermometer. Plenty of time to scour the web for a sunny sheltered crag, the problem being that […]
Cucala and Araya – Rock Around Castellón
Those of you who know me well will have me down as a bit of an app junkie, which is a fair assessment. Our new favourite climbing website is TheCrag.com […]
Rock hungry and windswept – climbing in Alto Palancia, Castellón
RockAroundTheWorld is back on the road! After a mildly harrowing journey (engine warning light on the way to the ferry, and Force 9 in the Bay of Biscay) we were […]
Three sides of Cabeçonet a.k.a. Busot
This was a return trip to this fine set of crags above the town of Busot (which we first visited in 2018) now armed with the definitive CB guidebook (rather […]
Rincon Bello – it really is a Beautiful Corner of Spain
Another new (to us) shady mega-crag – Rincon Bello is hidden away up in the hinterland, 20km inland from Alicante and not far from the town of Petrer. Unlike many […]
Unfinished Business at Tierra de Nadie
Tierra de Nadie was our favourite find of 2020 – we had three highly enjoyable and productive days there in Feb/March before taking a break to Finestrat to welcome the […]
More Mula – Above (Pasillo) and Below (La Presa) the Dam
We hadn’t expected to return to Mula so soon, but I had a belated leaf through Donde Escalar before we started our journey north, and spotted a new “featured crag”. […]
Southern Costa Blanca – Crevillente (La Escola and Tardeo) and Las Yeseras
We’ve made regular forays to the area around Orihuela, in the regions of Vega Baja and Bajo Vinalopo, but the new Costa Blanca guide has a whole host of new […]
Redovan Revisited – La Pancha and El Rut
La Pancha is a huge chunk of rock, dominating the skyline above Redovan. We’d visited once before to do one of 120m Vias Largas (multi-pitch adventures) https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2015/01/28/redovan-la-pancha/ and the new […]
Levante Sud – Mula Sector Ferrari and Cieza Sector El Puente
The two-volume Levante Climbs books were only published in 2019, but have already been largely supplanted as the main reference point for Costa Blanca climbing by the Roberto Lopez guide. […]
Aixorta and L’Ocaive – Chasing the Shade
NOTE: CLIMBING AT AIXORTA IS CURRENTLY BANNED (FEB 2022). See details and check for updates here : https://www.femecv.com/noticias/prohibicion-de-escalada-en-aixorta When I first put up this post, someone (thanks Hilary!) kindly pointed […]
Ambolo
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 […]
La Solana and Lliber RHS
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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