Santa Linya·Spain
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La Cova de Santa Linya is a vast, shaded cave of tufas and power-endurance climbing - a wet-weather and winter refuge that shelters world-class hard routes alongside enough steep mid-grade lines to fill a trip.
In season: Nov–Mar · Peak: Nov–Feb
Steep, powerful climbing on tufas and pockets, dry even when it rains; the cave stays cool. Grades are stiff and the atmosphere is committing and cavernous.
Vertical wall outside the roof, the only mid-grade option
The cave itself, home to some of the hardest routes ever climbed
Powerful short pitches at the cave mouth
Base in Ager or Lleida. A single-pitch sport rack, long draws and a 70 m rope cover it; go with someone who knows the cave for your first day.
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