Off to Mallorca? - (Albahida MicroGUIDE)
Well I’m not, but maybe you are?
There was some discussion on the forums today about Mallorca and it seems people are heading out there once again for the winter sun climbing fix. One of the problems in the past with Mallorca has always been finding sufficient lower grade routes. The locals have never really bothered too much with bolting easier stuff and it is certainly true that the best of the climbing is in the higher grades. However for most climbers operating at around VS and above there will still be a week or two’s worth of climbing if you seek out the good destinations. Places like Puig de Garrafa, S’estret, Creveta and Cala Magraner have plenty of routes to choose from.
Rockfax Mallorca Route Database
One route not to miss is the magnificent Albahida. A full day’s outing for most including a summit tick and a long descent. Unusually it is a trad route but only a small rack is required so no need to blow your ever-diminishing luggage allowance.
One thing you may not want to carry up the route with you is the guidebook. So now you can save a bit of weight by downloading the Albahida MicroGUIDE which has all the info included in the book.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hi Alan
Just come back from Mallorca - Was interesting. We were looking for routes of 5+ and below and especially top 50.
Went to Le Craveta and Coordina coordinator and Lord of the Rings were set up as top rope fortunately got Curset.
Cala Magraner - En pas descanse, a local wandered over as we were setting up, dumped his rope in front of the route, tied in and then rang someone on his mobile feigning no knowledge of English and didn’t bother climbing until we wandered down to the river.
Tijuana - Churrito y pelete, Tom and Jerry, Ebam and Ebamsa was being used by a guy as top rope training - he caused a lot of fuss to other climbers nearly wiping my partner off one route when descending and nearly pulling off another climber when he eventually pulled his rope down. She wasn’t happy. Also, he would climb a route and leave his rope dangling whilst having lunch and to boot I had to abseil off a shared lower off with his rope threaded through (got impatient) whilst his girlfriend climbed up. She realised the situation and stopped and lowered down so I could continue.
Finally went to S’Estret to find three groups tope roping Part Forana, Movimiento sexy, Tight Slab, Menage à trois, Eliminate, Virgin, Las cagao, End Slab 1 and End Slab 2. Leaving their ropes up for others in the group to climb but not giving room for us to even attempt to climb.
What fun. They all had your guidebook though.