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Costa Blanca  

by Chris Craggs and Alan James
Published January 2005
Price - £19.95 - -

Dedicated exclusively to the Costa Blanca, this is the most comprehensive book ever published to sport and trad climbing on Spain's 'white coast' – weighing in at 368 pages and covering a host of superb cliffs between Leyva in the far south to Gandia in the north. With well over 2300 routes described in detail, this book will keep any ardent sun-rocker busy for years.

The Costa Blanca has become renown as Europe's premier winter sun rock venue, with a great climate, bags of accommodation, cheap flights and enough high quality climbing to last a lifetime. As well as covering the clip-ups on the ever-popular cliffs around Benidorm and Calpe, the book details big outings on the Puig Campana, The Penon, and the Echo Valley area. The guide also has many areas never covered before by Rockfax - for a full list check below or download the FREE PDF map of the area with locations of all the crags.

368 Pages 42 Areas 2300+ Routes Full colour throughout

Format - A set of high resolution digital photographs has been assembled, and on the rare occasion where this has proved impossible, detailed full-colour topos have been used. Some of the full-page crag shots are a breathtaking revelation. Include 50+ dramatic action photographs and this book will set the standard for years to come.

Next Print Edition - A new edition of this book is planned for late 2011.

Easter Eggs

Within the pages of the book are 16 Easter Eggs, no, not real chocolate Easter eggs, but hidden modifications and additions to some of the photographs. They are very minor, very subtle and incredibly difficult to find.

Here are some cryptic clues

Crags Included

Links take you to the relevant section of the Rockfax Route Database. Italic text indicates crags which have not previously featured in a Rockfax guide.

Alicante Area
Marin, Salinas, Sax (Cabreras), Sierra Magdelena, Peña del Corb, Peña Rubia, Forada, Ibi, Reconco, Agujas Rojas, Alcoi, Cabezon del Oro

Benidorm Area
Sella, Divino, Puig Campana, Ponoch, Echo Valley
(The higher Echo Crags like Haunted Walls and Echo Placa have been omitted from this guide. You can download the pages from the last guide here.)

Calpe Area
Bernia, Altea, Mascarat, Sierra de Toix, Olta, Peñón de Ifach
(Guadalest is available as a Free MiniGuide download here.)

Jalon Area
Los Pinos, Pena Roja (Lliber), Murla/Alcalali (2007 Update is available as a free download here), L'Ocaive, Covatelles, Font d'Axia, Pego, Segaria

Gandia Area
Gandía, Salem, Aventador, Montesa, Bellús - Free MiniGUIDE, Baranc de l'Avern

Corrections

The following minor corrections have come to light since publication.

• Page 27 - Some German text is missing. Download a new version in PDF format
• Page 38/41 - Some of the numbers are missing from the crag tables. Download a new version in PDF format
• Page 116 - Foradà Approach - Leave the A7 at junction 70 towards Castalla on the A36, not junction 69.

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ASSOCIATED PUBLICATIONS

Costa Blanca X-tra   by Chris Craggs Published - May 2010 (version 1.10) Price - FREE - Three new crags on the Costa Blanca; two new ones, and an older one that has had a lot of development. Bollula is a fine wall of great rock with a good set of routes from 4+ to 7b. Morro Falqui is the imposing headland to the north of the beaches to the north of Moraira. Alcalali has had a lot of new routes added. All are covered in this MiniGuide. Minor updates added in May 2010. - -

Guadalest   by Chris Craggs and Alan James Published - November 2006 (version 1.00) Price - FREE - An extensive crag on the Costa Blanca which is not in the Costa Blanca Rockfax. It has many routes in the Orange spot grades and is within easy-reach of the coastal accommodation hot spots. Available in booklet format. - -

Costa Blanca Ridges   by Mark Glaister Published - February 2010 (version 1.02) Price - £5.00 - A MiniGUIDE to some of the best ridge scrambles on the Costa Blanca in Spain. The guide provides detailed logistical and climbing information to five of the area’s most impressive and better-known ridge traverses. - -

Bellús   by Alan James and Chris Craggs Published - January 2005 (version 2.00) Price - FREE - A FREE sample chapter from the Costa Blanca Rockfax to this excellent little crag near Xàtiva. Fine sheltered wall climbing is a beautiful setting with a choice of sun or shade routes on separate buttresses. This MiniGUIDE has been updated to version 2 with minor amendments and more routes on Cueva Pechina, to bring it in-line with the guidebook. - -

Worterbuch   by Karsten Kurz Price - FREE - A dictionary translating many of the popular climbing phrases from English to German. It includes most of the obscure language used in the Rockfax guidebooks. Compiled with painstaking accuracy by Karsten Kurz. Updated and expanded to Version 3.0 in December 2006.

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