List of Crags
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Italy - Sardinia | Ulassai - Canyon | Situated just above the town of Ulassai, the canyon is a great summer destination with excellent climbing in all grades. |
Limestone | 750m | 50 | 5c - 8a, with most interest in the 7s | All | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Ulassai - Cave of Dreams | Actually a continuation of the main Ulassai canyon, more easily reached from the sports field north of the town. The cave is a small gorge that gives steep, strenuous climbing on tufas and edges. |
Limestone | 800m | 30 | 6b - 7c+ | All | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Ulassai - Gola di San Giorgio | A real roadside crag, you can almost belay from the car in this impressive little gorge. |
Limestone | 900m | 25 | 6a - 7a | All | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Ulassai - Lecorci | The steep walls of Lecorci offer lots of good, hard climbing that requires strong fingers and good technique. It is very quickly reached and gets the sun in the morning. |
Limestone | 800m | 70 | Mostly 7a - 8a | East | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Ulassai - Su Casteddu | A huge crag just round the corner from Ulassai. The routes are of excellent quality, and set in a beautiful location. |
Limestone | 800m | 50 | 5c - 8b | West | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Ulassai - Torre del Venti | The big obvious crag behind the grassy Barigau Piazza in Ulassai. Torre dei Venti offers steep wall climbing on small holds. |
Limestone | 800m | 20 | 6b - 8b | East | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Bunker | The section of cliff right and left of the prominent white quarried face. It has mostly routes in the 5s and 6s, but there are a few harder routes. |
Limestone | 30m | 100 | 4b - 7b | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Cala Mancina | The North end of the San Vito cliffs is a beautiful area especially around Mancina Bay. |
Limestone | 50m | 100 | 4a - 8b | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - El Bahira | The crags directly behind the camping site |
20m | 100 | 4a _7b | South West | Italy - Sicily | |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Nowhere | The crags between the path leading to the supermarket in San Vito lo Capo and north of the El Bahira campsite. |
Limestone | 30m | 50 | 5a - 7c | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Pietrata | The area that starts above and to the right of the El Bahira Camp site. Lots of excellent climbing in all grades. Perfect in winter, hot in the summer. |
Limestone | 50m | 250 | 4a - 8c | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Pineta | A few hundred metres to the right of the campsite is a beautiful pine forest with some excellent climbing above it. |
Limestone | 50m | 70 | 5a - 8a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Scomparto Rifiuti | Situated about 400m right of El Bahira camping, the "Waste Sector" has some excellent routes, despite the name. |
Limestone | 100m | 50 | 4b - 7a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Terra media | The central part of San Vito has a a good seelction of mid grade routes and couple of interesting sectors, in particular Castello is in the shade in the afternoon. |
Limestone | 30m | 50 | 4b - 7a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Torre Isulidda | The sector underneath the conspicuous tower, about 800m right of the camping |
Limestone | 50m | 100 | 5a - 7a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - Griffon Rock | Griffon rock is set in a beautiful valley, very easy to access and with many fine routes, albeit short by Moroccan standards. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 30 | S - E5 with most routes in the E1 / E2 range | All | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - Icebox Canyon | Icebox canyon is one of the premier cliffs in the area. Long pitches, atmospheric routes, and beautiful views deep into the Samazar valley combine to give the canyon a big mountain feel. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 30 | HVS - E4 | North | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - Lower Eagle | The Afantizar valley is a lovely, lonely place to climb, and Lower Eagle an excellent cliff with long routes, getting easier the higher you climb. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 20 | VS - E4 | North West | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - The Narrow Slit | A small but worthwhile crag with many excellent routes. The Narrow Slit is a deep, dry gorge with climbs on both wings and at the entrance to the gorge. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 10 | HVS - E3 | East | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - The White Dome | The White Dome is actually a collection of 5 Towers, partly visible from the Tizourgane Kasbah and the road that leads from Ida Ougnidif to the Afantizar valley. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 50 | S - E4, with routes predominately in the E1/E2 range | North West | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Spain - Balaguer | Ager - Barranc de Grillons | A large wall in a beautiful setting high above the Ager valley. Barranc de Grillons has mostly technical wall climbing on positive holds, including a few low grade routes. |
Limestone | 1000m | 50 | 4b - 7a, mostly in the 6b to 7a range | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Ager - camp 300 | An excellent crag of high quality rock in a beautiful location. Ager camp 300 has many slab type routes, that sometimes overhang. Bolting is excellent and the routes are up to 30m in length. |
Limestone | 1250m | 60 | 6b - 8b | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Alos de Balaguer - El Raco | A small crag in a beautiful location halfway between Alos de Balaguera and the Noguera Pallaresa dam. |
Limestone | 300m | 25 | 6a to 8a | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Alos de Balaguer - L'Estret | Another easily accessible, well bolted crag. L'estret has sustained slabby routes on the left hand side and overhanging test pieces in the cave on the right. |
Limestone | 300m | 20 | 6a to 8b | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Camarasa - Crestes de Conill South | The Crestes de Conill are a very interesting geological formation. Fins of rock, 50m high, that are not much thicker than your car, giving solid, slabby climbing. |
Limestone | 250m | 30 | 5b - 6c | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Camarasa - Marcant Estil | Camaras is a large climbing area with excellent short and long routes. It does not get the sun until the late afternoon. |
Limestone | 300m | 100 | North West | Spain - Balaguer | |
Spain - Balaguer | Cubells | A nice looking crag, situated at the top of a hill, the routes at Cubells are up to 30m in length and one of the few cliffs in the Balaguera area that give (relatively) low grade as well as mid gra |
Limestone | 600m | 70 | 5b to 7a | South East | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Os de Balaguer | Os de Balaguer is a small gorge close to the village from which it gets its name. It has mostly technical climbing on sharp incut holds. |
Limestone | 500m | 100 | 6a to 8a | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Santa Ana left bank | Santa Ana is a major climbing area next to the large dam of the river Noguera Ribagorcana which forms the Santa Ana reservoir. The river acts as the border between Catalonia and Aragon. |
Limestone | 200m | 200 | mostly 6a to 8a | All | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Santa Linya - Cova Gran | Cova Gran is one of the most important hard sport climbing crags in the world. Certainly if the density of one pitch hard routes is the measure, it takes a lot of beating. |
Limestone | 250m | 70 | 7b - 9b | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Santa Linya - Futbolin | Futbolin is the unlucky little brother of the Cova Grana. Anywhere else it would be heralded as a great crag, here it is overshadowed by its more famous sibling. |
Limestone | 500m | 25 | 6b - 7b | South West | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | St. LLorenc de Montgal | A large climbing area in a beautiful location next to the reservoirs of Panté de Saint LLorenc de Montgal. The crags face south and are a mixture of solid red limestone and conglomerate. |
Limestone | 250m | 200 | All | All | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Tartareu | A long escarpment with hundreds of routes up to 25m in length. It faces east and gets the sun until about 1pm, although this varies a bit according to the sector. |
Limestone | 600m | 200 | Mostly 6a to 8a | East | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Terradets - Paret de les Bruixes | Terradets is a very impressive gorge in the Serra del Montsec 40km or so North of Balaguer. Amongst the many big walls is the single pitch sport crag, Paret de les Bruixes. |
Limestone | 400m | 50 | 7a to 9a | South West | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Costa Blanca | Acantilado de Bixauca | A pleasant cliff set amongst olive, almond and cherry trees, the crag of Bixauca offers something at most grades, usually on good, incut and rough holds. |
Limestone | 700m | 30 | 5a - 8a | South | Spain - Costa Blanca |
Spain - Costa Blanca | Font d'Axia | A small crag with a handful of easy routes in a nice setting in the hills behind Jalon. It gets the sun in the afternoon and is sheltered from the wind. |
Limestone | 300m | 20 | Mostly grade 4 and 5 | West | Spain - Costa Blanca |
Spain - Costa Blanca | Gandia | An excellent sport climbing crag with routes up to 30m long on steep, solid and sometimes polished limestone. |
Limestone | 200m | 100 | Mostly 6a to 7c | South | Spain - Costa Blanca |
Spain - Costa Blanca | Pego | A pleasant crag that is difficult to find, just outside the village of Pego. |
Limestone | 200m | 25 | 5a - 7c | South | Spain - Costa Blanca |
Spain - Costa Blanca | Pena Roja | Pena Roja is an easily accessible and pleasant crag of red limestone just two kilometres from the village of Jalon in the hills above Calpe. |
Limestone | 350m | 50 | 6a - 8a | South East | Spain - Costa Blanca |
Spain - Costa Blanca | Sella - Hidden Valley, Wild Side | One of the best crags in the area, if you climb 7b and above. Long, steep routes up to 40m in length. |
Limestone | 700m | 50 | 7a - 8c | North | Spain - Costa Blanca |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Aquest any si | Located just round the corner from the 6s of Criminal Tango, Aquest any si picks up where that crag left off, with a bunch of fine grade 7s. |
Limestone | 800m | 15 | 6b - 8c | North East | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Bisagra | An excellent cliff with a handful of steep wall climbs on good rock. Gets the sun after about 2pm. |
Limestone | 800m | 10 | 6c - 7c | West | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Café solo | A short steep crag that has the advantage of being easily accessible from the village, faces north and is next to a beautiful meadow with a nice swimming pool in the river. |
Limestone | 800m | 15 | 7b-8c | North | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Criminal Tango | Steep climbing with a few excellent tufa climbs in the mid grades. Getting polished |
Limestone | 750m | 10 | 6b - 7b | East | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Culo inquieto | A small cave with a few short steep routes that has the advantage of shade in the afternoon and being very close to a lovely bathing pool and beach that gets the sun in the afternoon. |
Limestone | 800m | 5 | 7a+ - 7c+ | East | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - El camino | A useful crag to avoid the sun in the morning and develop your technique on steep, crimpy, polished, well bolted limestone. |
Limestone | 800m | 30 | 6a - 7b | West | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Furia Latina | A small crag next to the river that stays in the shade and is useful as a warm up for harder things, or as challenging routes in their own right |
Limestone | 800m | 10 | 6a - 7b | North | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Gran Boveda and La Nuit des Temps | Gran Boveda is one of the premier crags in Rodellar with numerous steep and long routes from 7b upwards, and very easy access. |
Limestone | 80m | 60 | 6b - 8c | East | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - La Fuente | The sister crag to Furia Latina has some of the easiest routes in Rodellar, and they face North, so remain cool in the summer. |
Limestone | 800m | 20 | 5a - 6b | North | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - La Surgencia | La Surgencia is an impressive cliff at the end of the Rodellar valley, where the Rio Mascun is met by the Barranco del Andrebod. It is a crag of two halves. |
Limestone | 800m | 20 | 7a - 8c | North East | Spain - Rodellar |