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Sport climbing is where the climbing route has preinstalled bolts in the rock to which you clip the boom started again. In the last rope as you progress. The rope is tied to your harness and goes down through the karabiners decade or so hundreds of new on the bolts to a device on your climbing partner’s harness. In the event of a fall the device locks routes have been established, onto the rope and you are caught by the last bolt which you clipped the rope to. This is a simple, new crags have been cleaned of effective and generally a really safe way to climb, which also makes the sport more accessible to loose rocks and bolted, and new your everyday people (you don’t have to be an athlete to enjoy a day climbing). paths have been made. This year the Busot town hall have started Trad climbing follows the same principle contributing by providing funds to of clipping the rope to stop your fall, yet the Busot Climbing Club to bolt you don’t clip to bolts but to pieces of gear new routes as well as providing (mainly cams and nuts and sometimes a clubhouse. In the near future pitons) which you yourself place into cracks several new crags with hundreds and holes in the rock as you progress. of new routes will be opened. Instead of using in situ bolts you use “floating” protection which is later removed. The main climbing areas aren’t hard to find, all you have to do is Most crags in this part of Spain tend to follow the signs for the Canelobre have a mixture of these two styles, as caves and park on the big curve in the road before reaching well as a mixture of different climbing grades (which depends on the steepness, size and quality the caves. There is an information board there with maps of of the holds, position of the holds etc.) which makes climbing a fun and generally accessible the area and the more common hiking routes. Some of the newer crags (Tocayo and Jabugo) are sport for everyone - but make sure you know what you’re doing first! – if you aren’t going with an accessed by taking the first road to the right before the turn off to the Canelobre Caves (heading experienced climber there are courses available from some of the local indoor climbing gyms. from Busot). So the nearest crag to Alicante (I should probably call it a collection of crags because it’s a huge If you do want to climb and want a more comprehensive guide of the sectors, the routes and their mountain with many different climbing sectors) locations I would recommend buying “Cabeço d’Or: Guia de Escalada” by Manuel Bernabeu, and is the Cabeço d’Or in Busot, whose geological supplementing the guidebook with information from some of the climbing blogs and forums (mainly formation was discussed in previous articles. saltatela.blogspot.co.uk and www.matxinklimb.com) and climbing magazines (in the magazine This is one of my favorite places to climb (and Escalar nº 97 there is information about some of the newer sport climbing crags in the area – where I learnt to climb) as it has a variety of Sector Tocayo and Jabugo). Also I’m sure the guys in the climbing shops in Alicante will be more different climbing styles, grades and sizes. than happy to provide information, advice and point you in the right direction. There are abundant trad and sport climbing If anyone would like more advice just send me an email to [email protected] multipitch routes (one short route on top of another and then on top of another and like Matthew Clancy that all the way up to the top) of up to 300m, 18 19 CLINICA DENTAL Asociación Emmanuel Alicante El Campello Christian Community GEERLINGS BONALBA Dr Victoria Garbarino Dr Eric Geerlings English, Spanish and Dutch Spoken COME AND HEAR OUR GUEST SPEAKER A charity to SARAH CORCORAN Telephone: 965 959 714 Feed The Hungry www.clinicadentalgeerlings.es We have a Charity Shop based in San Juan Town whose proceeds are used to help feed the local poor of all Madam: Welcome to the palindrome. nationalities. We welcome donations of all Madness takes its toll. kinds: Clothing, Food, Please have exact change. Electrical, Furniture, Financial Help, An insurance man was trying to persuade a & More housewife to take out life insurance. “Suppose your husband were to die,” he said. “What would you get?” “A parrot probably,” she replied. “Then the SUNDAY 19TH JULY 10.30AM house wouldn’t seem so quiet”.

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