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h4lf_rope
Jul 19, 2008, 12:34 PM
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Hi,
I'm lucky enough to be heading to Switzerland at the end of August with my climbing partner/girlfriend. We are planning the trip and could use some help with finding climbing areas. I came across one guide -- in German. Does anyone know alternatives? Is it worth getting? Right now, the plan is to go without a guide and climb mainly at the area next to Basel.
How do we get there from the city? What local resources are available?
Thanks so much for any help.
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blueshrimp
Jul 19, 2008, 3:03 PM
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If you get the Filidor (i.e. "Plaisir Jura") guides you don't have to worry about the German, as they also come in French and Italian or English.
The Jura one is in German, French and English (all three languages at once in the same book) and they're fairly easy to find in any climbing shop and some big bookstores.
Lots of climbing places within half an hour of Basel, if you don't have a car you can easily get to most of them via combination of train, bus, and walking. Around Basel/Jura some of my favorite places are:
Roches d'Orvin
Les Sommetres
Schartenfluh
all easily accessible with public transport.
Also the guides have lots of pictures/diagrams so even if you dont' speak German the pictures are pretty self-explanatory.
Just one warning: the scales on the little approach maps on the Filidor guides are totally off, so in spite of the "maps" you'll have to do a little bit of backtracking. This is my only real complaint with these guides.
Oh, also, they don't show all the routes in many crags, since the guides were published a lot of new routes have gone up.
Another place that has route info (this one on the web) is
www.kletterwiki.de
http://www.kletterwiki.de
There's also an o.k. indoor gym in Basel, dont' remember the name, not too tall but suggest outdoors is more fun.
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