Alfacar
Sunny on the coast, and we decide to explore inland and the climbing around Granada. This great city lies at about 800m so we’re expecting it to be cooler than […]
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Los Vados again
Turned out a bit chilly, so it probably wasn’t a great idea to explore El Castillejo near the village of Orgiva. This is at 470m in the Alpujarra, in the […]
Los Vados – what a difference a day makes
Heading further west we arrive in Motril, and are fully expecting another day or two of grim weather as the cold front passes through – we console ourselves with reports […]
La Parra – Almeria
Waking to rain in Calpe, it was obvious that the weather front had arrived a day early – time to leave town and head south. Fresh snow on top of […]
Guadalest
After a week of mostly new crags (for us), we revisited an old favourite, in the company of Keith and Fiona (and Scamp!). Guadalest seemed like a good bet to […]
Sombre de Leon
After a much needed rest day, we’re back in action. It’s sunny but there’s a cold northerly blowing – perfect for a visit to this new (to us) crag on […]
Bovedon and Bovedin
We teamed up with Keefe and Tansie, Justin and Chris and Keith and Fiona for a two crag day. I drew the short straw and climbed on the unrelenting steepness […]
Sella – sector Bear and Doggy
We first visited Sella almost 30 years ago, when it had only just come to the attention of the climbing world through an article in Desnivel. A wilderness experience of […]
Cumbre d’el Sol
A late start and a breezy day, so we went for a look at these sea cliff routes. We’d visited a few years ago for the classic 6 pitch route […]
Pego 2
One of the recent crags we found out about (thanks Ted! ) is near the village of Atzuvia, just beyond Pego. A bit of Internet trawling to supplement the camera […]
Toix
With our imminent arrival in Calpe we have a morning ring round of campsites, with growing concern as the first two ‘have some space starting in early March’… Fortunately, we’re […]
Back on the Road – Morata de Jalon
After 24hrs on the ferry, and an overnight stop in the car park of a wildlife park near Santander (complete with elephants! ) we woke to dazzling sunshine and […]
Mucha, mucha lluvia
With a couple of inches of rain having fallen overnight, we woke up to driving rain and a forecast of another three inches during the day! However, a lull around […]
Chulilla – Oasis
Friday was forecast for showers – building to torrential downpours overnight and throughout the weekend. The view from “Probably the best toilet in the world”was a pale imitation of the […]
Chulilla – Sex Shop
No, not a dodgy pre-Xmas pressie buying trip – but the name of a sector in the gorge behind the rifugio. Overcast, but dry, the conditions were great for climbing […]
Mini-break Dad & Jake trip – Castellet de Calp
After a 4am start we were in Alicante by 11 and at the crag by 1pm, dropping in for a few quick routes near Calpe on the way to Chulilla. […]
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 […]
Baldellou
We’d recced this crag on our drive through Aragon on our accommodation spotting trip – impressive orange wall set in a narrow gorge above a near deserted road. Looked promising…. […]
Ager 300
More Ager climbing, this time at about 1300m and accessed from above via a winding road that heads over the top of the Montsec d’Ares. Fantastic views from up there, […]
Passarellas de congost de Montrebie
We’d seen a tourism leaflet promoting the area which featured some spectacular and unlikely looking stairway weaving through overhanging bands of cliff and leading to a stunning gorge. After a […]
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