We are planning a trip to Yosemite and are looking for suitable training grounds for a week/short week over the winter/autumn/spring period that would be suitable i.e multi pitch crack climbs. Obviously Yosemite, Indian Creek etc would be best but looking for cheap get away in Europe somewhere. Any suggestions for cheap and half decent weather?
I'll say it:
- autumn-spring: Orco (!!!) or Cadarese (cragging)
- summer: Mont Blanc... yeah, not cheap, but you can make it cheap... if you really, really want...
- winter: good luck or let us know
avoid cham. The weather is shit. val De mello would get my vote of too wet try the Verdon the natural feature routes like last demande have lots of jamming. either orco or arco would be good too. Not sure which one though as never been. A great deal of very useful practise can be had at millstone too.
