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Three sides of Cabeçonet a.k.a. Busot

February 22, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Rincon Bello – it really is a Beautiful Corner of Spain

February 18, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Unfinished Business at Tierra de Nadie

February 17, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

More Mula – Above (Pasillo) and Below (La Presa) the Dam

February 14, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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”. […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Southern Costa Blanca – Crevillente (La Escola and Tardeo) and Las Yeseras

February 14, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Redovan Revisited – La Pancha and El Rut

February 12, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Spain, The South West, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Levante Sud – Mula Sector Ferrari and Cieza Sector El Puente

February 11, 2022by Dominic 1 Comment

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. […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Aixorta and L’Ocaive – Chasing the Shade

February 4, 2022by Dominic 3 Comments

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 […]

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Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

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

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