[Norton Sharley]

just been and visited a 'new' bouldering venue in Spain - Albarracin.  Top venue, top problems, top weather, top locals.  There's 5 main areas with several hundred problems.  It's located between Valencia and Madrid and is top for autumn and spring trips.  May get a bit cold and under snow in winter but could be ok.  More info and photos to follow when I get back to civilisation and a fast connection.

[Bubba]

Sounds good Norton - get some pics posted - how's the winter season starting?

[unclesomebody]

Any more news on Albaraccin? I'm really keen to go, but don't know if it will be too warm now. Any information on getting decent topos, places to camp/stay, etc etc is really welcome. I've read the most recent month's Climb which has an article on the place, but it doesn't give much away to be honest... so any advice is appreciated. Photos would be a real brucey too.

thanks in advance.

[Palomides]

Uncle et al,

This may not add anything to the article in Climb (which I haven't seen) but there's a piece in Escalade Mag #1, which can be downloaded from this site as a 9.5MB pdf:

http://escalademag.com

You have to register to get the "Escalade en pdf" section - or you could try this direct link:
http://escalademag.com/images/stories/archives/num1.pdf but that may not work forever.

Please note - for the hard of thinking - that this is a French magazine, written by French people, in French...  :roll:

[Palomides]

COuple more links, from the zebloc forum:

http://comandonerp.iespana.es/Escalada/albarracin.pdf

http://destinationbloc.free.fr/viewtopic.php?t=26

[Lostboy]

did Norton's pics ever get posted, I'd be interested to see some if anybody has any? I've heard good things

[account_inactive]

How good does this look?



or this



Almost as good as.................................................................................................................The Forest of Dean

[Lostboy]

sooo good 

[gaby]

A page in english dedicated to Albarracin is there : http://www.zebloc.com/articles/albarracin/albarracine.php

[gaby]

I've just added a movie at http://www.zebloc.com

Check it!


Gaby

[cofe]

this place any good say early April???

[Pantontino]

There's a Welsh team going end of Feb/start of March. I might go over for the first week in March. Looks like a very cool place.

I reckon April would be okay, as it is set at quite a high altitude (1000m I think?). It'll probably be baltic when I get there.

[account_inactive]

Just got back from a trip here.

Don't bother, not enough rock and overhyped..................

[Bonjoy]

Can you elaborate on that a bit? How much rock is there exactly? I have it down as a destination on my big Euro tour so am pretty keen to find out as much as possible.

[Percy B]

Dylans right - its completely rubbish. Don't bother. Absolute crap. Definately not as good as Burbage....











OK - its awesome, but don't tell anybody.

[unclesomebody]

Dylan, could you post something useful like a trip report to try and help the rest of us make the most from a trip out there. Thanks.

[Duma]

+1.
Come on dylan, we're hurting here.

[Serpico]

this place any good say early April???

Hopefully the correct answer to this is yes, as I'm going there with a French team from the 6th -15th April.
I'll be easily identifiable as the pale one with no style...

[Terrace Ghost]

 www.boulderalbarracin.com

[BenF]

If you're after a good report on the place, speak to Mick Adams if you know him (I know a few of the Sheffield portion of UKB do).  He visited in January and had a fantastic trip.  Not sure what he knows about the range of areas available, but he certainly climbed a lot of very good stuff in accessible places.  He said it was pretty hot there in January though.

[Duma]

cheers TG

[r-man]

Here's a goodun -

[cofe]

Just got back from a trip here.

Don't bother, not enough rock and overhyped..................

where'd you stay word? having a spot of bother finding somewhere but this maybe because we've opted to go at easter.

any photos to show?

any must tick probs?

go on...

[account_inactive]

Its rubbish

Have PM'd you

[Johnny Brown]

Crikey! My source, who is usually very reliable, really rated it.
And perfect conditions in the peak all week. :roll: