Aventuras

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Moncayo: Alpinism in Zaragoza

This is a short report from http://secciomuntanyacev.blogspot.com/ of my most recent excursion to Mt. Moncayo in Zaragoza written by a fellow member of the Mountaineers club in Valencia, Ivan (translated from Spanish).

Hi mates, here are some photos of last Sunday's activity.
Taking advantage of the latest snow and a good weather window, we went to Moncayo. We managed to climb the Needle of Moncayo (V + 25 m). The route is equipped with bolts, but you only have 5 on the route so it might be necessary to take a cam or two or have mastered the grade. Another thing that makes it interesting are the winter conditions, ice, water and snow falling constantly from the sun and climbing with crampons and wet hands. For a moment it was like we were in the Pyrenees or Alps. And we were only in Zaragoza!
After rappelling, we would not leave without crowning the peak, right? We scurried up for very easy summit!
I encourage you to go for if you have not been for a fun weekend.
Health and Mountain.
Namaste!







Find out more about the moncayo here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncayo_(mountain)

Cheers!

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