warm sun in spain

The week before christmas I have been to Alicante, Spain. As in most parts of Europe it was too warm. In this case I was happy with that. At sea we had about 18 or 19 degrees and at the cracks 24/25 degrees Celsius.

We visited different crags: Gandia, Pego and Montessa. Great climbing, the rock is pretty sharp (except from Montessa), it is steep lime stone climbing, good bolted routes (sometimes the first bolt was too high) and mostly not too polished.

Great days out!!!

Gandia on day 1:

Pego: cool climbing as well!

Back in Gandia for the real steep Tufa climbing in the sector "Potente", 7a, hard for the grade and polished!

 Montesa: smaller area but enough for a few days climbing, especially the routes on the left are long and steep (6b+/6c+)...

in one of the 6c's...

Marieke in a 6a+.... nice climbing...

we used the Rockfax climbing guide from 2004. In the German climbing magazine "Klettern" 12/2015 there is an additional route info about climbing around Valencia! We flew in to Alicante, rented a car (very cheap) and stayed in La playa del Oliva (between Gandia en Denia).