General If you drive through Longarone and look up to the roads that lead to Erto, you’ll notice this great wall that covers a great part of that hill you’ll be passing. Then you’d go asking yourself, if there’s anything to climb on it. Casso is situated just right on top left of Erto. The access is a liitle difficult to find, especially if you’re there for the first time and if you get on the wrong path, it’s going to lead you all the way down to the other side of the valley. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re looking for an alternative to climbing in Finale, crags in and around Castelbianco offers a handful of crags that’s worth a few weeks of holidays to spend your time on. VALLE PENNAVAIRE is a quiet valley with little medieval towns and a few popular gourmet restaurants to go to. It ‘ s almost untouched nature surrounded by crags on all sides of the valley makes it possible to climb here in summer and in winter too. Olive trees, & Marones, are some specialties of the region . Looking aside from the amount of crags on each side of the valley, you will almost always find little lovely bridges , old romantic houses on a steep hangs, ruins and churches . Rosemary, Lavender & Thyme grows here like weeds. The valley is narrow, the hills on both sides steep. The way to the crags could be private property!

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Sardegna is one of the most beautiful Islands opposite of Rome and about 9 Ferry Hours away from Livorno, where we took off on a lovely morning in Autumn. News had been brumming on the many new climbing areas that were supposed to be good. And there’s nothing stopping us from having a fantastic holiday climbing and beaching! There are numerous crags all over the island for climbing of all sorts – if you’re looking for Overhangs, alpine, or Slabs, climbing on the shore, or just bouldering Sardegna is the place to go. Believe me – you won’t get bored there! So there we were going off and bringing lots of Fight Gravity Impulse along, and hoping that it works. I’m going to give you here a short idea how the most of the new areas are – (new? anything that’s been bolted after ’96) as there are enough articles in the Internet on Sardegna. ..

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Mentioning the name “Arco” makes every climber´s heart beat a little faster. It’s the place where climbing dreams are made of, a place to get great pizzas and pasta or gelatis, to go equipment shopping and sizzle your skin brown over the weekend. Olive trees and wine yards decorate the sarca valley. Arco with a great infrastructure by today poses a great getaway for everyone big & small, beginners or muscled packed. There´s no corner where you could turn to and not find some mountaineering store to spend your money on. Not only is the region made for climbers, it’s a haven for mountain bikers and windsurfers. With it´s mild Mediterranean climate 360 days long, no wonder it boomed over the last 20 years with sport tourists coming from all over the world, looking for sun, sport, pizza and great fun over the weekend. In the winter when days are short and the sun low, arco offers you many possibilities to enjoy climbing in your t-shirt. The best time of the year to come is nevertheless from February till November. It could get really hot and humid in the summer but there are an abundant crags hidden behind the trees, or north facing, offering shade and cooling air. Read the rest of this entry »