Ticino – Russo
Valle Onsernone splits off from (or I guess more accurately joins) Valle Maggia at Ponte Brolla, and a winding narrow road (mostly single track) has been hacked into the hillside, […]
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Ticino – El Cat Capers
Another of the “Ticino Top Ten” is the crag of El Cat, situated above the exquisite village of Brontallo – a renovation project on a grand scale, the charming stone […]
Ticino – Ponte Brolla
We stumbled on Ticino (the southernmost canton in Switzerland) as a climbing area somewhat by accident. There’s a handy campsite (Camping Isola) which is one of the few open all […]
Ticino – Galbisio, sector Movenpick: a very handy crag
With a few hours to kill before our ferry from Patras we decided to check out the Kykao microbrewery on the edge of town. We’d consumed vast quantities of their […]
La Jacoterie
Drifting homewards and looking for cragging opportunities to break the journey, we took a “lucky dip” in the Vertical Life app and came up with La Jacoterie in the Jura. […]
Leysin – Pierre de Moelle
The main Leysin crags are accessed by a cable car followed by a bit of a hike, and with the weather looking a bit iffy to start with we decided […]
Yvorne
After a night in a campsite by Lac Leman We continued our exploration of the cragging a few km back up the Rhone Valley near the town of Aigle. This […]
Gorges du Dailley, Salvan – sectors Daillet and Dalle
There’s a LOT of granite on the hillside above Martigny, much of it accessed from the impossibly quaint village of Salvan Les Granges. The major tourist attraction here is The […]
Dorenaz
After a 2-day side-visit to Chamonix that turned into a fortnight, we’ve finally managed to tear ourselves away. We’d visited pretty much all of the cragging venues and the interval […]
Lasciamili, AlbignaÂ
With a long day under our belts we fancied something a bit shorter, and maybe a tad harder. Lasciamili, a 6 pitch 6b which we could rap off fitted the […]
Spazzacaldeira, Albigna: Dente per Dente, NE Ridge Direct (via Nigg) and the FiammaÂ
We came down from the Sasc Fura hut with a vague plan to do a shortish valley route (6 pitches of up to 6b) further down the val Chiavenna, but […]
Another Day In Paradise – NE face of Piz BadileÂ
Piz Badile is less than 10km from the Mello Valley (as the crow flies), but it’s an hour and a half drive round and across the Swiss border to the […]
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