Steve MccClure

Spain goes British

Spain in May, a good bet you’d have to guess. Can’t win em all though. Right now I’m in Rodellar, Northern Spain and it’s utterly wet, so much rain and even snow that the entire cliff is soaked through seepage and run off! Apparently the UK is basking in the sun and all the cliffs are dry as a bone. Good news really, I’ll be back in a few days and at least by then I’ll be well fed, as there isn’t loads to do but eat here.

Still you can always make the best of it and we’ve still climbed every day, towel in hand and ready to dry off feet between river wades. Some of the cliffs are so steep they never get wet through rain, just through seepage, so not all the holds are wet, just the good ones. So the routes are harder, just drop the grade and off you go.

It seems Spain and Britain have swapped weather, and the amount of Brits here is crazy too, loads of us from all over, but funnily enough barely and Spanish. Spirits are high though, we love it, climbing in the boiling sun or sliding around in the rain, its all climbing.

May 14, 2010 06:21 PM

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