Vallada – Paratge Ermites
We visited Vallada a couple of years ago on a chilly day and left impressed – the sign-off line on the blog post was: “plenty to come back for”https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2017/02/22/vallada/… and […]
Category Archives: Valencia & Costa Blanca
Leyva – Carnaval time!
The main cliff at Leyva, Pared Sur, is one of the most impressive bits of rock in southern Spain – 150m high and about a mile wide, it’s position aloft […]
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 – […]
Busot sector Tocayo
There’s been a lot of development on the side of Cabezon d’Oro above the town of Busot, and furnished with much beta from Justin and Chris we set out to […]
Chasing the sun to Redovan
With a couple of cancellations on earlier ferries, we were relieved to board the Cap Finestrat in Portsmouth. Less than 24 hours later, as we neared Santander in torrential rain, […]
Araya – what a find!
We stumbled upon this fabulous crag thanks to a posting on the UKC logbook, and the incredibly useful Elev-arte.com website, and what a gem! Hidden away up a 2km dirt […]
Back to the Dragon’s Labyrinth
With a warm day in prospect, the combination of early sun then shade on El Labarinto de los Dragones looked like a good bet, and Chris and Justin were keen […]
Montanejos – Laberinto de Los Dragones
We spotted this awesome piece of rock just across the gorge when we were climbing at Mazmorras. Checking our guide there looked to be half a dozen routes at the […]
Jerica – Sector Huajolotes
We’ve caught up with Justin and Chris again (or rather they’ve caught us up having nipped home for a couple of weeks) and we decided to embrace the sunshine on […]
Montanejos – Caverna Magica and Mazmorras
With a lovely sunny day in prospect we decided to check out some of the climbing on the road out of Montanejos towards Montan. Caverna Magical is in a very pretty […]
Jerica
We woke to the sound of rain on the van roof on Friday – nature’s way of telling you to take a rest day. It was time for a change […]
Bovedos – or more like Bovedoesn’t
Further along the hillside from Bovedon lives it’s little brother Bovedos. Just a couple of dozen routes, but a very impressive chunk of upside-down land. We met up with Keefe […]
Vallada
This one has been on our radar for a couple of years, but a bit of a trek to access from Calpe. Finally managed to visit and it didn’t disappoint, […]
Tallat Roig
We’ve based ourselves by the seaside, a little north of Gandia – not the most inspiring campsite, but easy reach of the Gandia crags as well as Tallat Roig. The […]
Penya Roca and the end of SunRock 2017
After another great week of great company, fine dining, decent weather and the occasional climb it was time to say farewell to the 2017 sunrockers. The team disappeared at intervals […]
Crag-X
After almost 30 years of climbing on the Costa Blanca, any news of a new crag is worth exploring. Many of these ventures end up in disappointment, with numerous u-turns […]
SunRock the cartoon strip
Rather than a blog, Jim has been keeping his record of the trip in scribble form in a notebook, including some brilliant cartoons. I’d do the same if only I […]
Alcalali
Plans for a big team gathering at Alcalali (loads of quality routes, good spread of grades and near the road) were somewhat derailed by light drizzle. The meet reconvened at […]
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