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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]