Category: my travels
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Bonus Days in Sicily – long report!!
On Monica’s and Michal’s last full day in Sicily Rob and I set out very late for climbing. At around 12.30pm we reached our chosen sector near the camp site El Bahira, called Torre Isulidda. That was also very convenient for my friend Grainne, who stayed on this campsite with her family. After Rob and I…
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Zingaro National Park and going back home
For our last day on the island we decided to explore it a bit. It was still very hot do it seemed like a good option to go and check out local National Park. Zingaro Park is actualy the first one established in Sicily? setup over 30 years ago. It lies 50min drive from San…
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More heat. Day 6.
It’s almost impossible yo climb these last few days. Today was no different with temperatures around 30C. We left quite early (for our standards) to beat the traffic (San vito climbing festival started yesterday) and sun but none of that worked. We returned to the crag we’ve been to on day 2, just moved further…
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Scuba diving & fighting the wind. Day 5
Another hot ans very windy day. Monika and I decided to go and check out some of the local dive sites while Sonja and Rob went on a sightseeing trip a place to Mount Eric. We showed up at Under Hundred scuba dive shop st 8.30. The plan was to do 2 dives but as…
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Bunker vol2 – fighting the heat. Day 4.
It was an easy call to return to the bunker sector today. Endless climbing in great setting. The bigger problem though was the heat. It was super hot today. Much hotter than the previous days. We started at SW facing part of yhe sector, left from Sonja and Rob where climbing yesterday. I’ve onsighted warmup…
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Bunker -Day3
Bunker is one of the sectors in impressive Scigliera di Salinella Centro. crag one can easly spend few weeks on. The crag is less than 2km from our place and makes a for a great climbing spot with 168 routes between 3 and 8b (46 of them are in 5a-c grade with further 86 in…
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Cala Mancina – White Wall. Day 2.
To be honest yesterday was so travel oriented that I just should call it day 0. The real climbing started today. I fotgot already how much fun limestone is. It just eats up skin on your hands. For the trip’s warmup number 2 we visited the first sector (north facing so in nice shadow) of…
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Thunder climbs. Sicily day 1.
Long day today. The time has come for our annual sport climbing trip. We got upround 4am to catch 7.20 flight to Palermo. This year the team are Rob T., Sonja F., Monika and I. Destination San Vito lo Capo. It all went smooth until we landed… The car rental office for the car company…
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The Northern Lights
I guess everyone knows what they are; not everybody seen them live. The ones who have, know that they look nothing like they’d imagine… Hunting for them in the summer is like going rock climbing in the spring – technically possible, sometimes you’ll get conditions and couple of climbs in, but most of the time it will be just a…
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Days 6 (Hverfjall, Vindbelgiarfjall), 7 (Hraunfossar / Barnafoss) & going home.
I didn’t have time in the last 2 days to update, as we were doing a lot of driving. We knew that last two days will be tough. It’s a long distance from the north back to Reykjavik. We also wanted stop and places and explore as well as stay up late one night and…