[i_a_coops]

Wondering if anyone had crag recommendations for this area - looking for areas with lots of good easy 4s through to 6s as well as some nice routes anywhere in the 7s in the same area. Also I frikkin' love both granite and steepness (but steepness would probably have to have non-steepness very nearby).

This site looks like it might be really useful when I've worked out which crags I want to go to....
http://cafma.free.fr/

Also any advice on campsites/dossing/rest day activites?

Thanks!

[Palomides]

It can be pretty hot in mid-summer. I don't know the crags there that well, but if you go over to ukc then any post asking about the Ariege (or anywhere in a 200km radius) will be answered by John Arran within about 5 ms, and will tell you all you need to know - specifiy grades and time of year.

In fact, here you go
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=508571
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=497266
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=505047

[i_a_coops]

Awesome - thanks!

[duncan]

I've had the odd day at some places in Ariege. 

Calames has the range of grades you are after but is south facing, shadeless, and was warm in October.  Pilier des Cathares was a very pleasant 7 pitches of bumbly 6a.  Johnnie Walker was my friend's first 8a and it took her a morning's work so is presumably not too hard for the grade (said friend should have climbed 8a several years previously but it was an unusual event for a Brit. woman in the 90s). 

Auzat is great up to about 6c: lovely slabby, fine-grained granite, usually very well bolted.  There are plenty of trees and some of it is east facing, so there should be some shade in the afternoon.  I don't think there is much harder stuff though.