Hi
Thinking of heading to Taghia in Morocco. Does anybody know if you can still climb there in May!
Any info on the area would be much appriciated.
Cheers
Is there much reasonably graded stuff in Taghia? The only stuff I've seen in the mags is of the 7 pitch, 7b+ variety. Cool, but a bit out of my league.
Good question. On our first three days we climbed some good 6b+s and a 6c with the intention of having a go at something harder once we had a good idea of what was on offer and how we were going. Unfortunately we both fell ill, me first then Hilary a day later. This lasted about four days till the antibiotics kicked in. Afterwards we were completely wasted and, as I said, it was much colder with showers so we battled our way up some more routes of mostly the same grade or easier for the remaining three days. Here's our last day: http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=168873
I came away thinking exactly as you are that there's enough to go at for someone climbing in the 6b+/c grade for a week or more. There certainly seemed a lack of routes in the 6c>7a+ range, then a whole lot at 7b and above. Having said that, that was in 2008 so there's probably quite a few more routes to go at now. There are also many trad routes if that appeals to you.
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