List of Crags
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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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 |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Las Ventanas and El Delfin | El Delfin is a hole in a huge limestone wall that when viewed from the North looks uncannily like a dolphin. |
Limestone | 800m | 50 | 6a - 8c | All | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Pince sans rire | A lovely crag with some shaded warm ups for the morning, and sustained test pieces for the afternoon when the sun has slowly moved off the right hand face. |
Limestone | 800m | 30 | 6b - 8c | All | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain - Rodellar | Rodellar - Piton d'o Cuervo | The impressive pinnacle between Temps des Nuits and Pince sans Rire has some excellent short routes on it's left hand side, and longer, harder ones up it's front face. |
Limestone | 800m | 15 | 6a - 7c | East | Spain - Rodellar |
Spain- Tenerife | Arico | Tenerife's most popular crag. Bouldery routes up to 25m in length on igneous volcanic rock, that is similar to sandstone. |
Volcanic | 800m | 500 | 4 to 8c | All | Spain- Tenerife |
Spain- Tenerife | El Rio | El Rio presa is an interesting area. A dam that was built in the 1960s, then abandoned in the 1970s when they couldnt stop it leaking water through the volcanic fissures in the rock. |
Volcanic | 600m | 100 | 5a to 8c | All | Spain- Tenerife |
Spain- Tenerife | Guaria | An excellent crag on the west side of the island, with a variety of routes. |
Volcanic | 800m | 100 | 5c-8c | South | Spain- Tenerife |
Spain- Tenerife | San Marcos | A small but worthwhile crag on the north side of the island. The crag is in a built up area close to the sea. The routes are short, steep, fingery and well bolted. |
Volcanic | 50m | 50 | 5a to 8a | North West | Spain- Tenerife |
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Switzerland - Basler Jura | Bärtel | A quiet crag set in a beautiful location just under the Risenberg summit. Bärtel has a steady and pleasant uphill walk to reach it, and then some testing routes. |
Limestone | 650m | 20 | 6a to 7c | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Chalengraben | Chalengraben is a beautiful gorge tucked away in the hillside above Hofstetten. It has a few short and difficult routes that can be really pleasant in the spring, summer and autumn. |
Limestone | 600m | 20 | 6b to 8a | All | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Chastelfluh | Set in a beautiful area, just above the Chastelbach, the cliff has a number of buttresses with some excellent routes. |
Limestone | 550m | 100 | 6a - 8b | East | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Chestel | A steep featureless crag of compact limestone in a pleasant location above the Laufen-Delemont valley. The forest provides some shade in summer, and lets the sun through in winter. |
Limestone | 500m | 30 | 7a -8b | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Chuenisberg | Seldom busy, Chuenisberg is a peaceful place, set in a beautiful wood of beech trees. |
Limestone | 100 | 6a - 9a | North | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Chuenisberg H-Man | A compact sector with two distinct buttresses. The left hand side has some hard slabs and steep pocketed walls. |
Limestone | 600m | 20 | North | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Chuenisberg Premiere | Premiere is the far left hand side of Chuenisberg. Often neglected it has a few excellent routes. |
Limestone | 600m | 25 | North | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Chuenisberg Ravage | The sector Ravage is steep and has a long history. It was once home to the hardest route in the world. Ravage is a route that has now been on sighted by Adam Ondra. |
Limestone | 600m | 20 | North | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Falkenfluh | Falkenfluh is a large important cliff containing hundreds of excellent routes, nearly all single pitch up to 30m in height. |
Limestone | 600m | 250 | 5a-8c | All | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Flüh | Elsässerwand at the left hand side of Hofstettenchöpfli is a pleasant crag with lots of wall climbing in the 5b to 6c range. It gets the sun in the afternoon, and dries quickly after rain. |
Limestone | 350m | 30 | Mostly 6a to 6c | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Gempen Gempenpfeiler | A nice selection of climbs in this middle section of Gempen, mostly on steep walls with a few aretes and slabs thrown in. |
Limestone | 739m | 40 | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Gempen Ost | The easiest sector at Gempen with many short, safe routes in the lower grades. Perfect for beginners, and the routes on Block wall are well worth the visit in their own right. |
Limestone | 750m | 40 | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Gempen Sandührliwand | A very sunny crag that dries quickly and can sometimes be too hot even in the coldest months! Excellent wall climbing often on pockets, well bolted. |
Limestone | 750m | 100 | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Gempen Ziegenrücken | Ziegenrücken is the first slab you reach after descending the steep stepped gully. The climbs are popular, perhaps partly due to the easier routes, and obvious warm up potential. |
Limestone | 750m | 30 | All | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Get Wet Canyon | On hot summer days after a long dry period, Get Wet Canyon is an ideal place to escape the heat. |
Limestone | 600m | 30 | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Hofstettenchöpfli - Middle | The middle section of the Chöpfli is seldom visited, but has some worthwhile buttresses. Chrüz is the most Northerly and nearest to Flüh. Because of rare nesting birds, climbing is not allowed. |
Limestone | 500m | 20 | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Hofstettenchöpfli - Right | The right hand side of Hofstettenchöpfli is approached from Hofstetten. |
Limestone | 400m | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura | ||
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Ingelstein | Ingelstein must rank as one of the most attractive looking, and least visited crags in the Basler Jura. |
Limestone | 550m | 50 | 4c to 7b | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Lämmlisfluh | A not very popular crag that does have some nice routes. In particular the climbing in the central section is good, on pockets and edges on mostly solid rock. |
Limestone | 500m | 25 | 6a to 7c, the best routes are 6c and above | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Pelzli Lower | The lower section of Pelzli is just a few minutes walk from the road and consists of the spectacular Daumenfels, and two smaller buttresses, Le Doigt and Mättelifels. |
Limestone | 600m | 50 | 5c - 8a | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Pelzli Upper | The upper section of Pelzli consists of series of buttresses and boulders. The climbing is excellent with routes in all grades from 4c to 8a. |
Limestone | 600m | 15 | 4c - 8a | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Rappenfels | An excellent crag with about 50 routes, mostly in the 7a to 7c range. |
Limestone | 400m | 50 | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Redelsflue | A series of detached pinnacles with good quality rock and some fine routes above Roschenz. |
Limestone | 600m | 20 | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Rütenen | A quiet crag near to the pretty little village of Himmelried. The routes are relatively short, but what they lack in height they more than make up for in difficulty! |
Limestone | 600m | 40 | 5c - 8a | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Schauenburgfluh | Schauenburgfluh is an important crag near to Basel, and one of the largest in the Basler Jura. With 40m high walls and nearly 100 routes, it has lots of long wall climbs to offer, mostly in the middle grades. Some of the routes have two pitches, although most can be done in a single run out with an 80m rope. The routes are generally solid, but especially at the top, there is still some loose rock around, and helmets are advised. | Limestone | 650m | 40 | 5a - 7b | South East | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Seetelhöchi | A pleasant crag with a few excellent routes, on cracks and pocketed walls, but also some loose rock. |
Limestone | 600m | 20 | 5b to 7b | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Tannenfluh main crag | Tannenfluh consists of two distinct parts. A crag on the hillside and a crag dug into the hillside. The first has a few separate buttresses with some nice mid grade routes. |
Limestone | 650m | 40 | South | Switzerland - Basler Jura | |
Switzerland - Basler Jura | Tüfleten Left | Tüfleten is a relatively large, varied crag with routes to suit most tastes. |
Limestone | 500m | 30 | South West | Switzerland - Basler Jura |
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Switzerland - Basler Jura | Grotte des Nains | Situated deep in the forest, this small gorge with its quaint little cave has a handful of steep and difficult climbs up to 30m in length. |
Limestone | 350m | 20 | North East | Switzerland - Basler Jura |