Escalada en Chulilla... An amazing expanse of beautiful red limestone!woodzy | 23 July, 2006 11:16 This area is almost as spectacular as Switzerland was, just on a much (much!) smaller scale. The climbing here is excellent limestone. Although if you don't have a car, getting here is not the easiest thing to accomplish. Luckly though, there is bus service from Valencia, but here is the kicker... it leaves Chulilla at 6:45am and it leaves Valencia at 6:30pm / 7:30pm. I found multiple websites that claimed the leaving time was 6:30pm, although when I got to Valencia Estacion de Autobuses and asked the information desk... the bus was leaving at 7:30 on platform 35-37 everyday (this is as of July 2006). The cities website (http://chulilla.com) claimed the time was 6:30 but times during the summer were subject to change. The ride is about 1hr 45min. In conclusion, a car would be helpful, but not necessary... I love Europe.
You also have to bring a pair of shorts that dry fast... the stream (they call it a river) is super cold (read freezing on a hot day) but oh so amazing. The bars are expensive... hit the market... Apparently they sell guide books in town for 7euro. I didn't want to shell it out, so we just hiked in and wandered around climbing things... plus we were only there for a day basically...
Montserratwoodzy | 08 July, 2006 06:04 We did a route on Goro Figi. This was much better than Magdalena Inferior... it was longer, there were multiple moves that were interesting and the view was amazing! Too bad it threatened to rain in the afternoon and I was hungry, or I would have climbed something on Magdalena Superior... thats the next step at Montserrat. The rock is so crazy here... and not all the routes are sketchy bolted :) Multi-pitch Climbing with 3 people isn't bad, but its not fast thats for sure... Thats a cross at the top... It looks like a spec in this picture... but if you look at the full size one...
BCN Tunnel Climbingwoodzy | 07 July, 2006 06:02 Been doing alot more climbing in the tunnel (3 times this week)... actually found some good routes (and by good I mean there were like 2 or 3 moves that were interesting in the bottom 2/3rd section of the climb)... So its more entertaining to climb there... plus my toe is doing better and that means I have to climb on it ;)
Rosenlauistock - Switzerland near Meiringenwoodzy | 01 July, 2006 05:46 We headed out to Switzerland for our second week break. Switzerland is amazing. So many mountains, all over the place! But between missing busses and sleeping later than we expected, we only got to climb one day, and even then we got rained off that climb toward the top, bummer! Oh well... I now have a larger goal of coming back and climbing Wellhorn which is a awesome 800m vertical face (dialing in at 7a) overlooking the Rosenlaui glacier! You don't get better than climbing with your shift off looking down at a giant glacier! We also stayed at the Engelhornerhutte near the climb we did, man do the swiss know how to make huts to sleep in ;) Engelhornerhutte
Gagelfanger - route on Rosenlauistock... we had to retreat just a few pitches above the green area near the top...
Wellhorn - My goal when I have money && time again. The route starts right at the bottom of the obvious corner of the mountain and shoots up! Just below the Glacier! Amazing!
Montserrat.. nope BCN Tunnel Climbingwoodzy | 23 June, 2006 08:46
So the goal was Montserrat today... but between getting up late and taking the wrong train to Montserrat... um... we ended up at the tunnel (well not really the tunnel...) it was "outdoors" :) Very sweaty day...
Montserratwoodzy | 17 June, 2006 08:23 Scariest conglomeration of rock ever... the size of the conglomerate ranges from VW sized rocks, to small river like pebbles glued together by some kinda magic natural concrete. Maybe the Romans just made the whole mountain and its some giant joke ;) Scary rope drag... you really do have to worry about sharp edges here. Got there kinda late, but climbed one 3 pitch route. Here is a view of the basic idea... it was all 5.easy climbing except for one 7 foot dyno from conglomerate to conglomerate (nothing in between) on an overhang... so thats why its a 6a. The most run out climbing I have done... I clipped 5 bolts in 50m. 3 of them were around the 6a move (within 10ft).
BCN Tunnel Climbingwoodzy | 16 June, 2006 08:31 Again... maybe I shouldn't mention this place, just because its a gym... but this photo compilation is sweet.
Andonno - First real climb(s) back!woodzy | 08 June, 2006 07:57
Andonno, Italy is amazing! The climbs we did were amazing (limestone is so wierd!) and the national park was just absolutely stunning! Its such an amazing experience to be sitting in the middle 3000m peaks and watch the fog lift off of each one and reveal their ridiculousness.
Climbing... We climbed
Here is a view of Parco Apli Maritime very close to Andonno Italy...
And here is a view of a portion of the Main wall in Andonno. Le capre Ovali starts left of the big flake toward the ground, and goes up the second pominent black streak to the left. I'm kinda bumed we didn't get to climb here more, but we were kinda tired from our long trip through other parts of Italy, and Paro Alpi Maritime was absolutely amazing... Its not all about climbing right ;)
BCN Tunnel Climbingwoodzy | 25 May, 2006 08:19 Did some fun climbing at the BCN (Barcelona) tunnel today... I'm torn as to whether I should post this stuff... because its really more of a gym than a crag... but it has real rock, and the routes at somewhat long... but the top 1/3 is generally textured concrete with chiseled or glued on holds. Anyway we climbed things, don't know the names... I could put ratings, but thats boring.
Hah, broken toes don't stop me!woodzy | 13 May, 2006 07:49
Well they stopped me from climbing the "real" routes near the BCN climbing tunnel, but on those easy overhang routes, who need toes! Just a heel hook, one foot and some arms.
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