Costa Blanca Ridges

Before heading to Costa Blanca I’d heard really only of the Bernia Ridge, as it seems to be the one all Brits have done. Everyone speaks very highly of it – they clearly haven’t done any of the others!! I didn’t realise there were so many beautiful ridge lines here, with amazing natural sweeps of limestone forming great knife-edge ridges many hundreds of meters (or kilometres!) long.

The first one we did was totally by chance as we drove along and spotted the immaculate Benicadell Ridge – which made us go wow and immediately find out info about it.

In no particular order, below is a one sentence run down of each of the ones we did. The Bendicadell is far and away the best one, literally incomparably better, yet isn’t in the Rockfax guide – and the Bernia is by a long long margin the worst!! It turns out Rockfax made a mini guide to the Costa Blanca ridges, which we didn’t know until we’d already done most of them – but did spur us on at the end to finish them.

Bernia Ridge – nice setting, short section of horrendously polished climbing, lots of walking.

Castellat Ridge – bit of a bush bash to get on and off it, nicely exposed but really just a scramble.

Benicadell Ridge – totally amazing, several sections of climbing amongst loads of scrambling, goes on and on in a good way!

Toix Ridge – nice climb onto it, then a VERY short little scramble,

Segaria Ridge – really good, mostly scrambling but keeps coming at you, escapable at half way, some longer abseils than expected!

Gemma eyeing up the Benicadell Ridge in the Costa Blanca
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