Freitag, 10. Februar 2012

Costa Blanca Day 1&2

Like every year University closed over Christmas and new-year, so it was  the ideal time to escape the bad weather in Germany and go somewhere climbing where it's warm and sunny. Costa Blanca in Spain was the area of our choice this year.
So on December 26th Hanns,Peter,Stefan,Thomas and I landed on Valencia airport. From there we took two rental cars. While Thomas and Stefan waited for Franzi who arrived later, the rest of us took the Renault Kangoo Combi to drive to Calpe.
Valencia

Valencia: palm trees

Our Kitchen
We made an involuntarily detour through Valencia, because we took off while our navigation system was still initializing. Valencia as far we saw it is a very beautiful city. But maybe we were still dazzled  by the sunny weather. When we finally realized that the navigation system would never initialize we rebooted it and found our way out of the city. On the way to Calpe we found out where all oranges in Europe were grown. There were orange trees almost everywhere.We even found a Lidl in Calpe, where we could buy provision on second Christmas day.

View from our blacony at sunrise

Our holiday flat in Olta Mare was more than we have hoped. From our balcony we had an amazing view on Calpe, the Penon and the sea. Only the big hotel complexes disturbed the view a bit.


Our climbing group from left to right: Peter, Thomas, Stefan, Hanns and Franzi

 On the next morning we drove climbing at last. For the first day we choose the crag “Sierra de Toix - Toix TV – Amphitheatre”. When we got out of the car new amazing views on the Calpe, Penon and the sea came up.
Stefan looks very cool while belaying

Me in the first pitch of Cobra
Highlights in this sector for us certainly were the routes Monkey Wall(6c), Painted Wall(6b+) and the first pitch of Cobra(7b).  Monkey Wall and Cobra wall are excellent 30m routes which starts easy and become hard at a micro roof short before the anchor.  The first pitch of Cobra is only 20m long but is very complex. To do this route one has to pull on small holds and manage the wide reaches. Stefan was the only one of us who was able to do all this.
Amazing sunset at Sierra de Toix

Brotherly bond and the sunset

Me and the sunset

In the end of the day we were able to admire a nice view of calpe, penon and the sea in the beautiful light of the sunset.
More stories will follow soon.

Bye for now
Haschi

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