Description
A mountain landscape behind the well-known holiday coast.
The Costa Blanca offers more than just beaches and city life. Inland from the coast, limestone peaks, deep gorges, and ridges create a varied terrain for walking and scrambling. This guidebook covers the areas around Alicante, Benidorm, and Calp, demonstrating how a coastal base can be combined with walking days in a completely different landscape, a short distance from the sea.
Fifty graded routes with varying demands.
The selection ranges from manageable walks to longer, more demanding undertakings with steep sections. Some routes involve scrambling and are intended for readers with relevant experience. The gradings and descriptions enable comparison of alternatives, allowing you to choose a walk that suits both your group and the type of challenge you seek for your holiday.
Maps and local knowledge for planning.
Route descriptions and maps provide support for navigating the mountain connections, while practical information assists with starting points and execution. The author possesses extensive experience from the area and compiles a broad selection in one book. This makes the guide useful both for a first encounter with the Costa Blanca mountains and for discovering new walking opportunities on a subsequent visit.
Adapt walks to heat, altitude, and experience.
Autumn, winter, and spring can offer excellent walking conditions, but the mountains still demand consideration for weather and terrain. Summer heat can make long ascents challenging, and airy routes pose different requirements than ordinary paths. The guide is suitable for walkers who actively use the gradings to choose between routes with varying skill requirements, rather than treating all walks as simple holiday excursions.
A long tradition of hiking guides.
Cicerone has published guidebooks since 1969. The publisher emerged among climbers and mountaineers who wanted to share thorough knowledge of their routes – a tradition that still characterizes these compact books for walking, trekking, and other outdoor experiences.
About this edition.
Author: Terry Fletcher. English language. 224 pages. First edition, published in 2015. ISBN 9781852847517.
