With great intensity and with a lot of work
the area of Castelbianco has become a new famous rock climbing area in Italy.
The
area above the village Veravo, Bauso, is the older part of climbing crags
in Castelbianco. The most popular crags is the hard mostly overhanging Castelbianco,
the brand new area of Terminal (2005-2006) and crags on the hillside behind
the computer village Colletta. Most of the routes in this area are developed
during the last 4-5 years.
10
kilometres further into the Pennavaire valley you will find the village
Alto with three very beautiful crags, the highlights of the whole area.
Situated
near Finale Ligure the area has lot
of visitors, and weekends during winter you can meet many climbers from
all over the world.
In
the area you will find a lot of walking tracks, easy to find and they offers
beautiful walks among terraces of olives and cherry trees, and the area
also offers many historical buildings.
The
area offers for now almost 500 sport climbing routes.
The
people behind all the hard work to make new routes regard the area as their
property and it has been hard to find information for the Topos. The Topos
covering the area has of this reason not all information, as many as 12%
of
the routes are without grades, though approximately 3% dont yet have
grades because they are for now projects.
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