Christmas Climbing Camp in Spain
Have a great week in Sella climbing
Come to climb with Rockbusters team and our friends and have a great climbing Christmas in one of the best winter sport climbing destination in Europe!
Climbers who already know how to belay and tie on, with at least some indoor climbing experience who are interested in getting more deeply into the climbing world and culture.
This climbing camp offers you the possibility to stay and with our guides and their mates. In the best rock climbing destination of Europe you will have a chance to do as many hard sport routes as you possibly can and get one-on-one coaching if desired.
Sella is the most important and extensive area in the whole Costa Blanca. There is so much climbing that you could easily spend a whole week's holiday here and only leave the valley to top your supplies at the supermarket. The most popular crag is the long ridge in the centre of the valley which has a superb south face. However if you prefer peace and solitude to crowds then you should consider (especially on hot sunny days) the north facing Pared de Rosalía with its great long routes in the mid and harder grades.
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Itinerary / Highlights
Costa Blanca has been long known as one of the best destinations in the world for climbing in the winter and that is why it attracts visitors from all over the world. Although the area is mostly known as a 'sun and chips' venue, the summers here are HOT, crowded and expensive and only mad dogs and Englishmen would try to climb in the peak holiday season. At other times of the year though, the area has almost ideal combination of a mild climate, well established infrastructure, cheap flights from all European cities and of course, masses of high quality limestone - the real white gold. The thrill of stepping on a plane in the grey English morning and emerging two and a half hours later in a bright Spanish sunshine still takes some beating. More and more climbers make the regular exodus and head south for a mid-winter tonic.The benign climate would be naught without quality climbing to go at and in that respect the area really excels. Cliffs available here vary from tiny roadside offerings up through multi-pitch cragging; to extensive sea cliffs and on to some massive mountain crags. The earliest development took place back in the 1960s and the subsequent 40 years have seen a steady growth in the climbing available right up to the present day with both locals and visitors adding new climbs on a regular basis. It will be some years yet before this area is exhausted.
Initially the climbing here was seen as practise for bigger things and routes were done on an 'anything goes' basis. Later, with the development of sport climbing, many of the shorter cliffs were bolted up and later still the locals took on the massive task of bolting some of the major lines on the biggest cliffs, giving long classics, the equal of climbs anywhere.
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