the partner for this doesn't climb loads and Fr6a/b is about his limit
Quote from: Yossarian on December 03, 2021, 10:36:24 amthe partner for this doesn't climb loads and Fr6a/b is about his limit Is it your son?
Just back from Montserrat with mixed views.It was a nice place. Busy on the weekends, mainly on the single pitch. The rock is bullet hard conglomerate and there are loads of routes (1000+) to go at.However, we found it to be:- sandbagged on the single pitch stuff- hard to navigate, both finding routes and staying en-route. The routes mainly had a paucity of natural line, and the bolts are often so far apart (5m+ in places) that you just had to keep climbing until you stumbled across one, or not.- despite reading online that a single 70m rope would be fine for many routes, we got caught short on occasion.I'd say it just defies initial impressions. It looks like fun, low stress easy nav multipitch sport, but it's actually much more like bolted semi-alpine adventure trad. (despite the guide books and online posts saying "it's not as bad as it was in the 80s, really, it's not that scary...." The indistinct lines were really the most unappealing feature of the place.
I highly recommend Quiros in Asturias (North Spain)... Amazing rock, not polished. Well equipped.
Paul mentioned the Calanques. It's really beautiful but I found the rock quality and climbing a bit meh, amongst the worst cliffs I've climbed on in France. Also timings - I once went to Provence in early September thinking that September was the beginning of autumn, when what I should have thought is September is only just not August; it's a bit brutal down there. If you went later then Buoux might work as there is a surprising amount of easier graded stuff, tho I'm not sure how easy it actually is! Very easy access from the airport. There is also multipitch around Buis that is pretty good from what little I've done there.
Freyr in Belgium Stuff up 5 pitches long plus lots of single pitch stuff. Can be polished and run out but there’s always the beer and frites to console you if you have a bad day.