Valencia Climbing

Just a short update from us.
In April we did a small climbing vacation in the area of Valencia again.
The weather forecast was not super and it was definitely colder than expected.
Every day we tried to find a warm climbing spot in the sun so we travelled to different area's and crags. Still the wind was cold in some of the gorges.


Climbing crags that we visited:
Bunol
Altura
Jerica
Borriol
Cucalla
El Castellet.


In the late afternoon or evening we drove back to our apartment and made ourselves a nice dinner wit some wine, the topper this week: Lemon Chicken slow cooked in the oven for 2 hours, jummy.

Costa Blanca 17' 18'

Hi,

Yes indeed we went to Spain again this year. The rainy, cold days in the Netherlands did us again decide to head off to get some lovely sunshiny warm weather in Spain. I was struck with a terrible cold cough and San was still facing her neck injuries.

This did not kept us from travelling to our winter location to do some sport and trad climbing.

The first week we pushed ourselves hard in new routes.

The second week of our holiday it was planned that the family of San's sister was joining us so this year we decided to rent a bigger and more luxury house with an open fireplace and an outside kitchen. Great!

Trad in Sierra de Toix Este

Trad in Vall de Guadar

We visited some new area's and learned again that it takes some time to get used to the new styles of climbing. We enjoyed the first week with climbing adventurous trad routes and the second week climbing some easier routes with the youngsters. Every evening we had to collect wood for the woodstove and fireplace.

New Crag's visited:
Tallat Roig: Near the Alzira city, great crag with multipitch and single pitch routes Trad and Sport.
Bolulla: Raco Roig left side: always spectacular views of the Barranco of Bolulla area.

Tallat Roig



Barranco de Bolulla



San in Guadalest

Delicious Food; Fish and Paella from the Woodstove!!!

Life is good!!!!!!!

Climbing with the youngsters!







Cost Blanca Norte

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.

Costa Blanca '16 '17

Hi There!


Well, it has become more or less our tradition to spend our time around Christmas & New Year to explore the Costa Blanca for some climbing.
We both love the variety of doing some Sport climbing with the combination of Traditional climbing and doing some adventurous Multi Pitch routes either traditional or bolted.


As we have encountered already many crags in this area there is still plenty of unknown for us to discover. The weather forecast was so bad and showed us huge amount of rain showers that turned the Costa Blanca region into a flooding environment. We even could not escape our house since the road was flooded making it unable for cars to pass.


Some of the crags that normally are reached thru a dry river bed were unable to reach since the river had become into "River Wild" and impossible to go thru. So we headed for some higher grounds.


We tried to push again our limits but not all succeeded.
Like, Destroyer in Los Pinos and Me Cago en el Amor in Lliber both 8a's, nevertheless big fun in some traditional routes.
New Crags we visited: Bolulla Raco Roig, Ambolo, Gata de Gorgos, Montesa, Castellets.

The Barranco in Bolulla area

View on Montesa from the crag

7b Viper in Bolulla

Vall de Guadar, San rappelling down to take gear out

Los Pinos

Spain Mula May 2015

We had a wonderful week in Spain.
One of the crags had a interesting setting, perfect rock and steep overhangs.
In Mula sector Ferrari we enjoyed climbing the rock and we tried push ourselves.
Ramera was one of topper for us.

Ramera

Trying Yaceis 7c