Val de Cinca and Orange Snow
With Storm Celia lashing much of Spain with rain, we headed north into the Pyrenees once again, which was counter-intuitively forecasted to have better weather (better but not necessarily great!) […]
With Storm Celia lashing much of Spain with rain, we headed north into the Pyrenees once again, which was counter-intuitively forecasted to have better weather (better but not necessarily great!) […]
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 […]
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 […]
This was a “new to us” crag, even though it appeared in the first edition of Lleida Climbs. I guess the reason we hadn’t visited previously is because its sweet […]
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 […]
Our unexpected 4-day weather window of Roca Caliente in Los Pirineos came to an end, prompting the usual soul / app-searching. Without an obvious “grand beau temps” candidate amid a […]
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. […]
Valle de Isabena runs parallel to and to the west of the main thoroughfare from Lleida to France – in fact Google maps routed us along it on the way […]
With a sunny day in prospect, we decided to check out the most northerly area covered in the Roca Caliente guidebook. The Val d’Aran is the northernmost extent of Catalunya, […]
The Escales section of the guidebook runs to almost a hundred pages, with a dozen sectors and a couple of hundred routes in the vicinity of the reservoir of the […]
OK – did anyone guess right? After much forecast-searching and head-scratching on a rainy morning in Alto Mijares we set the controls of Rockaroundtheworld for the Heart of the Sun […]
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 […]
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 […]