Costa Blanca: Spanish Autumn Mountaineering

Costa Blanca is crammed with adventure activities, via ferrata, scrambling, sport climbing, canyoning and hiking.

This Autumn trip away when Englishland is basking in those beautiful dull, damp grey days. Why not use up the remainder of that factor 50 bottle.

Why here
Costa Blanca is not only convenient in terms of flights (direct into Alicante), accommodation abundant, sunny and warm easy accessible activities from mountainous adventures to dips in the Mediterranean sea.

What's here
Via Ferratas
Ridge scrambles
Sport Climbing
Canyons, some easier technical stuff and mostly dry
Hiking
Beaches and swimming

Planned Activities - we’ll be there for a full week, and be hosting three dedicated days of activities for everyone to join in with (plus a via ferrata skills afternoon on the first Saturday) :

• Scrambling event - Sierra Ferrer Ridge (grade 1) plus Via ferrata.
• Canyoning - Barranco del Pas de Tancat. We will be running a canyoning/abseiling skills day in the run up to the event for those that need it.
• Sport climbing - Sierra de Toix. Grades from 3 (absolute beginners) upwards + many multi-pitch routes.

(These may be subject to change depending on conditions and group preferences).

The rest of the week people are free to organise however they wish - generally there will be a few different activities going on, with people choosing based on preferred activities, experience levels, fitness etc.

What to bring

• Climbing helmet
• Climbing harness
• Belay device
• Screwgate carabiner × 2
• 60cm sling
• Prussik e.g. Beal Jammy
• Suitable boots or approach shoes

Additional stuff depending on what you want to do

• Climbing shoes for sport climbing
• Via ferrata lanyard
• Suitable gloves for via ferrata, e.g. belay/cycling/kayaking/DIY

Flights
Closest airport - Alicante
Both EasyJet and Ryanair fly to here from Manchester, East Midlands (Ryanair only but also Jet2) , Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds (no Easy but Jet2)

Accommodation
Good locations are the coastal areas to the North East of Benidorm such as El Albir, Altea and Calp (see map HERE). A tram service connects of these on the grey Benidorm to Denia Line 9 (HERE)
Anyone wanting to attend but unsure about accommodation or who to share with etc - we will be creating a WhatsApp chat to help people sort all of this stuff out

Fee: £10 (either send it direct to Gerry or give to me pass on)
Attendee Limit: 15

Guide Books/Resources
Cicerone Costa Blanca Mountain Adventures HERE
Sport climbing - Rockfax Spain: Costa Blanca HERE
Ferrata Guide app - all the stuff you'll need is free
HERE