nagore salaberria

Climbing in the wild

Perfect for a lazy sunny bank holiday afternoon. We met Ian Mulvany who showed us some routes and made the evening really interesting. We also showed him some that he didn’t know and we are not sure if we made some new routes or they are variations of previously climbed ones or we are just doing what many before had done but we still love coming up with new ways of solving the problems.

We made it to the west of Ireland and got one sunny day out of three rainy or extremely windy or extremely windy and rainy days. We must have had bad luck for the locals told us that it never rains in Ireland.  We explored Ailladie, Ballyryan and Murroughkilly and loved Ailladie (I will post the routes we climbed very shortly)

A two day trip with around 40 participants and organised by the Mountain School of Gipuzkoa.

Saturday morning: Pont d’Espagne (1500m) – Oulettes de Gaube hut (2200m)
Saturday afternoon: little tour around the hut

Sunday: Oulettes de Gaube – Vignemale (3298m) – Pont d’Espagne