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LucyA

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So, we're off to Tenerife, staying at Guia de Isora in a very nice hotel (yes, Dolly, it is a chain :whistle:).

We're not hiring a car, the big lad is taking his road bike and we have the little ones in creche every morning :great:

Am I anywhere near the bouldering? Is it worth taking my boots?
 
Have a look on the UKC guides/map thingy? Theres some climbing, but not a huge amount...

We take 30 students to Tenerife every spring so been around most of the island but not in a climbing capacity (sadly).

If you want to explore some, busses are pretty good around Tenerife too (not too many roads so its fairly simple). It'd be worth heading to los Gigantes from where you are (20min N on the bus) as the cliffs are pretty spectacular. In fact theres a great walk down a gorge to the coast in that corner where you have to be picked up by boat :) but that may be a bit much with little ones etc..
A trip/coach trip up to the Caldera is pretty special too - (it will be full of other tourists but is spectacular). If you want any more info about the area etc.,., let me know..
 
Sounds lovely, thanks for that. I may just enjoy it without my boots (though they won't take up that much space...). First non-climbing holiday since 2002!
 
There is quite a lot of bouldering Arico and Arico Nuevo plus some stuff on the north and there is an area up by the volcano.John watson of the Scotish bouldering guides did a little mini guide and there used to be a Tenerife bouldering web site run by a guy named Walter.Font Neil knows quite a bit about the climbing there as I think he used to live out there.
 
There is a guide - that I found in a bookshop in Puerto in April.. a good one too (as in well put together not a few scraps of A4 etc..)..
 
slackline said:
http://vimeo.com/117905310

Warning: For those offended by extensive 'drive to the crag' - 'what we did on the rest days' - 'atmospheric shots of stuff' - 'hazy into the sun pics of people lazing on bouldering mats' - I'd be prepared to get busy with the fast forward slider.
 
tomtom said:
I'd be prepared to get busy with the fast forward slider.

Climbing:

1:20-2:23
2:43-4:27
5:52-8:18
8:37-10:55
11:11-13:14

I think it's safe to say that the filmmaker is more inspired to shoot non-climbing stuff...
 
tomtom said:
Have a look on the UKC guides/map thingy? Theres some climbing, but not a huge amount...

We take 30 students to Tenerife every spring so been around most of the island but not in a climbing capacity (sadly).

If you want to explore some, busses are pretty good around Tenerife too (not too many roads so its fairly simple). It'd be worth heading to los Gigantes from where you are (20min N on the bus) as the cliffs are pretty spectacular. In fact theres a great walk down a gorge to the coast in that corner where you have to be picked up by boat :) but that may be a bit much with little ones etc..
A trip/coach trip up to the Caldera is pretty special too - (it will be full of other tourists but is spectacular). If you want any more info about the area etc.,., let me know..

The Masca gorge down to los gigantes is fun but if you do the full walk its not for little ones. Its fun and has lots to climb over but its not a stroll and I wouldn't take the kids. I was dumb enough to think it might be bikeable, its not but the adventure was fun.
 
cheque said:
tomtom said:
I'd be prepared to get busy with the fast forward slider.

Climbing:

1:20-2:23
2:43-4:27
5:52-8:18
8:37-10:55
11:11-13:14

I think it's safe to say that the filmmaker is more inspired to shoot non-climbing stuff...

So almost ten minutes of climbing in a 13 and a bit minute video. Not bad I think. You miserable cunts [emoji6] . Intro was alright, nothing i noticed. Apart from that it was just the middle cut that was a bit long. You come from a different perspective obviously, but I think it's worth remembering that most folk are there to climb and enjoy the holiday first, and filming it a distant third or forth. If that was my film I'd want a momento of the whole holiday, and I guess it does that very well.
 
Duma said:
So almost ten minutes of climbing in a 13 and a bit minute video. Not bad I think. You miserable cunts [emoji6] .

:lol: Yeah, I probably came across more miserable than I am about that video. I recorded the timings as I was curious about TomTom's comment and thought I might as well post them.

The non-climbing bits of it are really well done.
 
I met Mario and Tanya in Font at Rocher Fin. He asked me where I was from and I mentioned Yorkshire. He immediately said:
"Do you know Dan Turner? Do you know This Is Yorkshire? When I see this film I know I must climb in Yorkshire".

He went to the Peak last year and wants to come to Yorkshire this year. We had some good craic at the crag and he and his buddies were great to climb with. I really hope he comes to climb in Yorkshire.

So he and Tanya are lovely and you all ought to be ashamed of yourselves. If you haven't got anything nice to say then say nothing at all ;)
 
Tenerife is pretty much exactly half-way between us and the equator, so I wouldn't say it was close to the equator at all...
 
Plus the Mirador hotel where you were stuck is about 2100m up... Nowadays it's very expensive and is often the base for posh tourists and teams/sports folk doing altitude training - team Sky are there regularly etc...

When we were there last month the Caldera had been closed off for 10 days due to the heaviest snowfall in c.20 years.

It doesn't have permanent snow on the top though (the top is 3800m). I think the places with permanent snow cover closest to the equator are Mts Kili and Kenya.
 
Googling tenerife bouldering comes up with a slightly oddly produced selection of climbing videos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0iVGTEgtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrtbW5wcJMc
 
tomtom said:
There is a guide - that I found in a bookshop in Puerto in April.. a good one too (as in well put together not a few scraps of A4 etc..)..

Morning all. We're looking for sunshine over the Christmas break with the in-laws and our 6 month old baby. We're looking for winter sun with the opportunity to boulder and we keep coming back to Tenerife as a good compromise... Greece and the Med (Sardinia, Corsica, Mallorca) looks a little soggy and cold for the in-laws, the Algarve looks good but from a bouldering perspective not so good...

From reading a few conversations on here it looks like the bouldering is good on Tenerife but I'm struggling to find a topo. Is this topo you mention here from Puerto de la Cruz Tomtom?
 
It's a chuffing and bouldering guide. Not too much bouldering mentioned but there is lots more in the areas they describe (I inderstans). There's also a climbing house/hostel (like the Orange house etc..) on the S side of the island - (I think) it's called roxtar and they do pad rental and such stuff and probably know far more about he areas. I'm a liker of their Facebook page so get the odd dribble of info there....

In winter you can probably snaffle up a cheap all Inc on the south side of the island and rent a car etc...

But look to book early as with the demise of Egypt, Tunisia and partly Turkey as resorts it was packed this spring. (We go every year with work at Easter time).
 


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