Hike along old waterchannels

Hike in the Anaga mountains (north east of the island) through remote villages and along old water channels.

A combination of two hikes from Rother hiking guide (ed.14, 2015: start and end #50, loop #47) 

and here is the track:

Christmas on Tenerife

Wednesday 26 Dec 

Tamadaya (confusing because we have two versions of the topo, we’re using here the numbers from the newer one) 

• Sector Cuarto Largo: 47 
• Sector Apapart: 30, 28, a few others at the end on the left 

Thursday 27 Dec 

Fantasma 

• Routes 4, 5, 6 in Sector Yerto 
• Sector Paloma: 21 and the one left of it (unnamed) top rope, fail on 25 (start too athletic) 
• Sector Pajaritos (at the end of the canyon): Route 50, something easy on the other side, 49, 48 (6a+, greg failed, Andrea did it) 

 

Friday 28 Dec 

New area: Polegre (see photos) 

• Sector 1: 2 (IV), 1 (V), 7 (IV+), 4 (IV+), 5 (V+) 
• Sector 2: 1 (V), 4 (V+) 

Saturday 29 Dec 

Hiking along old waterchannels

Sunday 30 Dec 

Lazy nothing 

Monday 31 Dec 

Tamadaya (again) 

• Sector Cuarto Largo: 44, 10 
• Sector Apapart: 22, failed on 33 (getting through the crack past the second bolt) 
• Sector Tuberia: 3, 2 (6a), 1 (6a, toprope) 

Tuesday 1 Jan 

Polegre (see photos) 

• Sector 2: 9 (IV+), 8 (V+), 6 (V+) 
• Sector 1: btw 3 and 4 (easy, IV), 5 (V+), 9 (V) 

Wednesday 2 Jan 

Arico Arriba (numbers from Tanz auf dem Vulkan) 

• Sector Pena del Lunes: 4 (V+), 3 (V, A only) 
• Los Pinos Linker Teil: 5 (V+, G only, did 2 bolts), Unnumbered route just to the right of 5 (~V) 
• Vivac Rechts: 5 (V+) 
• El Luchador Links: 7 (V+, G only) 
• Sector Mini: 1 (V-), 2 (IV+), playing around for a while with some variations on 2 

Thursday 3 Jan  

Hike to the Punta Anaga lighthouse

Friday 4 Jan  

Tamadaya, today an emphasis on trying harder stuff 

• Tuberia: 51 (V+), 5 (6a, first toprope, then lead), 6 (V+), 1 (6a, oof that was hard), 3 (V-) 
• Cuarto Largo: 10 (V+), 48 (6a, Greg only) 

Saturday 5 Jan 

Tamadaya, more emphasis on harder stuff 

• Apapart: 30 (V), 32 (V+), 18 (6a), 19 (6a, P.A.) 
• Cuarto Largo: 48 (6a) 

Sunday 6 Jan 

Up top in Canada del Capricho (numbers from Tanz auf dem Vulkan) 

• La Rosa: 6 (IV) 
• Aureola: 20 (V, seemed hard), 19 (V+, top rope) 
• Fraggel Rock: 13 (IV, stupid route) 

And then a bunch of playing around, scrambling, and light bouldering. 

In general the easy routes here seem to be pretty crappy; but the setting is lovely. Probably a better place to climb 6b+. 

Monday 7 Jan 

Polegre 

• Sector 2: 1 (V), 4 (V+), 6 (V+) 
• Sector 1: 3 (6a, both lead-climbing twice, Andrea once in top rope, Greg’s initial lead climb took a more difficult line, Andrea’s beta made the whole thing fun and fun), 9 (V), 1 (V, different line from before, more stemming, greg did it twice because it was so much stemmy-fun).