Roca España.
As a working couple we squeezed a quick climbing vacation week between some work duties. Why? Just to have some nice sun shining weather after the long dark, cold and wet winter in the Netherlands.
We chose to do some (safe) sport climbing in Spain around the area of Valencia. Thankfully we were treated very well with beautiful blue skies and plenty of sun shine to do our sport. Looks like we deserved it.
Big bummer was that Sandra was not able to climb because of her recent Hernia which made her unable to control her leg and put force on her left foot. So she decided not to climb but being the belayer. We tried to choose easy approach walks to the crags. Below a couple of crags that we visited.
Borriol, Cucalla.
A very nice looking crag with lots of routes from easy 5 to 8b. Quite some overhanging routes that tend to be slight slippery at some points but very nice technical. In the afternoon the sun became too hot for doing harder stuff. Nice first day.
Borriol, El Castellet.
We started early morning in the shade at the bottom of this crag which was a little bit chilly, nevertheless a great atmosphere. Later we went up.
I did some tricky easy routes and tried a 7b but was unable to finished it. (At some points the holds were manufactured) After that I experienced that although slab climbing is not my favourite but surprisingly with the correct old shoes I could finish a hard one.
Jérica.
A very, very nice crag. We did not know exactly where to cross the river but apparently in the beginning of the path over a dam that regulates the water. We did the vertical routes on the grey orange rock and not on the grey slabby rock in the shade. Very good routes in the higher grades
Altura
Looks like a very new crag since the rock is still very sharp or maybe we did not start at a popular part yet. After several routes I tried a 8a here but I was unable to make the wide crux move on a slab part, the rest was OK.
Chulilla
Visited already last year for a week. We decided again to travel to Chullila since it has a very different style than the crags we did this week. The aim was to do some tufa routes. Regretfully the Chorreras area, most tufa's and colognettes were wet.
Borriol, Raco de Farol
Again another very nice crag in a very beautiful area and nice quit surrounding. It has lots of route offerings in lower and higher grades. Definitely worth a visit, or two. San even found a climbing god as can be seen below.
Last day we did some relaxing to see some Spanish cultural (work)Horsepower (or was it the farmer) on the beach.
As a working couple we squeezed a quick climbing vacation week between some work duties. Why? Just to have some nice sun shining weather after the long dark, cold and wet winter in the Netherlands.
We chose to do some (safe) sport climbing in Spain around the area of Valencia. Thankfully we were treated very well with beautiful blue skies and plenty of sun shine to do our sport. Looks like we deserved it.
Big bummer was that Sandra was not able to climb because of her recent Hernia which made her unable to control her leg and put force on her left foot. So she decided not to climb but being the belayer. We tried to choose easy approach walks to the crags. Below a couple of crags that we visited.
Borriol, Cucalla.
A very nice looking crag with lots of routes from easy 5 to 8b. Quite some overhanging routes that tend to be slight slippery at some points but very nice technical. In the afternoon the sun became too hot for doing harder stuff. Nice first day.
Borriol, El Castellet.
We started early morning in the shade at the bottom of this crag which was a little bit chilly, nevertheless a great atmosphere. Later we went up.
I did some tricky easy routes and tried a 7b but was unable to finished it. (At some points the holds were manufactured) After that I experienced that although slab climbing is not my favourite but surprisingly with the correct old shoes I could finish a hard one.
Jérica.
A very, very nice crag. We did not know exactly where to cross the river but apparently in the beginning of the path over a dam that regulates the water. We did the vertical routes on the grey orange rock and not on the grey slabby rock in the shade. Very good routes in the higher grades
Altura
Looks like a very new crag since the rock is still very sharp or maybe we did not start at a popular part yet. After several routes I tried a 8a here but I was unable to make the wide crux move on a slab part, the rest was OK.
Chulilla
Visited already last year for a week. We decided again to travel to Chullila since it has a very different style than the crags we did this week. The aim was to do some tufa routes. Regretfully the Chorreras area, most tufa's and colognettes were wet.
Borriol, Raco de Farol
Again another very nice crag in a very beautiful area and nice quit surrounding. It has lots of route offerings in lower and higher grades. Definitely worth a visit, or two. San even found a climbing god as can be seen below.
Last day we did some relaxing to see some Spanish cultural (work)Horsepower (or was it the farmer) on the beach.
