Riglos Revisited – More Pudding Please!
Nearing the end of our traverse of the Pyrenees, a fine day’s forecast coincided with us passing Riglos, and the opportunity to drop in was too good to ignore. The […]
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Calcena revisited – it just gets better!
Calcena, near Zaragoza, was without doubt our favourite discovery of our 2022 Spain trip: With a decent forecast we were keen to introduce Jim and Claire to this delightful part […]
More Calcena and a Rest Day with the Vultures
The forecasted “Big Rain” wasn’t much more than drizzle, and it was at least as wet everywhere else, so we stayed put in Calcena. To pass the time we made […]
Calcena – a New Addition to our List of Favourite Places
Many of you will be familiar with our favoured reference source for exploring Spain (at least in print) – Donde Escalar has inspired numerous happy finds over the years, and […]
Castillonroi
Helen stumbled on this series of crags on the web, and it gets a 3 carabiner rating in Donde Escalar (out of a maximum of 6) this roughly translates as […]
Santa Ana and Alos de Balaguer
A couple of return trips to places we’ve been before – albeit new sectors. I signed off my 2014 Santa Ana post with: Definitely somewhere we’ll return on future trips. […]
Alto Mijares revisited – two years later than planned!
Another of the highlights of our ultimately truncated 2020 Spain trip was our discovery of this climbers’ paradise near Olba, in southern Aragon. Five hundred routes on superb orange and […]
Alto Mijares – Olba – Sector Sol de Invierno
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 […]
Alquezar
Having bid farewell to Bill and Steve, we reluctantly started our journey westwards towards Bilbao and the ferry home. We had time for one last climbing stopover to break the […]
Las Devotas – Val de Cinca
After a well earned rest day, we needed a venue for a final day of heat-wave before a forecasted break in the weather. Having been scorched off the crag for […]
Olvena – groundhog day
It is a testament to the amount of tremendous rock in northern Spain that after almost 6 weeks and almost 30 crags, this is the first place we’ve revisited from […]
Foradada de Toscar
This crag went a long way to making up for the disappointment of Bielsa – another great find, situated right next to the road, and with a great range of […]
Into the Aragonian Pyrenees
With the stunning weather set to continue for at least another week, we decided to get some altitude to hopefully enjoy cooler temperatures. We’ve set up camp near Ainsa on […]
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