Info on climbing in Alsace

[andy harris]

Hi,

I'm hoping for 5/6 day trip to this amazing looking region of yours from my home in Sheffield UK for a few days of sport climbing at the end of June. I'm having trouble finding info so can somebody reccommend some places to stay (B&B gasthof ????).

Can you reccomend a guidebook and what would be the clasic areas to visit on a short trip. Also any info on the most classic routes from say 7a - 8b+. Maybe there is such an article on the web but I cannot find it.

thanks for your help

Andy Harris

[Noé]

Hey man,

Sweet that more British are coming in this region, I tried to make british friends discover these climbs.
For guidebooks : http://escalade-alsace.com/boutique/boutique.php?lang=en

If you stay around Strasbourg I recommend you "Sur les falaises de grès" and "Est-calade"
Also, you'll find on UKC a few crags, I am not really in 7as yet but I recommend you "Voyage au bout de la suie" 7a, a classic in "Grotte du Brotsch" (you'll find in that cave a large variety of routes from F5+ to F8b I think).

I'll come back from the UK the first week-end of July, maybe I'll see you in crags

Hope you'll have great time in Alsace

See you around

Noé
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[ak]

near Saverne/Strasbourg (middle Elsass):
- Brotsch (little cave in the forest, powerfull and steep routes)
7a+ Voyage au bout de la suie
7b Heliotrope
8a: Bromberzeit, Traité, Trace blanche

- Krappenfels (quite nice, crimpy routes)
7b Saussure mephisto
7c Home sweet home

- Kronthal (the best rock in the whole area, all styles, only in the morning or evening because of the sun, resistance/stamina routes)
7a: fausse fracture, passé décomposé
7b: terre promise
7b+: pourritures terrestres
7c: Androgym
7c+: le chien engagé, l'aven armand
8a: la terra à la une, orange amere
8b: le monument hystérique

near Haguenau (north Elsass):
- Windstein (nice cliff with castle, shade, bouldery routes)
7a : cryptospit
7b+: les associés

near Colmar (south Elsass):
- Gueberschwihr (sector Carriere, vertical, long and nice routes)
7a: Encore une fois merci
7c: Controle continu
8a: Protection rapprochée

(...)

[andy harris]

Thanks very much for the reccomendations we will definately check these areas out. I just bumped into an old friend at the climbing wall and he remembered climbing in this region whilst on a university placement in Fribourg and was full of praise. All I need now is a reccomendation on accomodation. Would we be best staying in Starsbourg and driving to the crags or staying in the countryside?

[Noé]

mmh it depends on what you're planning on doing ^^

I stayed a couple nights in Wasselone's camping (http://www.camping-wasselonne.com/?lang=fr) and I found it very nice (swimming pool...). It's 5min from Kronthal and 15min from Grotte du Brotsch etc.
Also it's 20-25min far from Strasbourg so if you want to have an evening there it's close

Anyway, it really depends on where exactly you want to climb ^^

My turn now : do you know nice places to stay near Stanage, The Roaches and Millestone?

Cheers
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[TL]

@ Noé :

Le camping d'Hathersage, dans la forêt, au pied de Stanage... (on l'aperçois dans le film de Florent au début, quand Pierre installe sa poutre) Très beau, calme (quand il n'y a pas de français). Pub, supérette, "boulangerie" et magasin d'escalade au village... à 20 min de Sheffield... A 5 min de Millstone et Burbage... un peu plus loin de Raven Tor (20 min)

[TL]

@ Andy :

North-Alsace :
Windstein****
Brotsch***
Langenfels**/*
Wolffelsen**/*

South-Alsace :
Martinswand***
Nouveaux Gueberschwihr (the quarry)***

Pfalz(Germany) ****:
Nonnenfels
Hönigfels
Klösterfels
Rödelstein
Burghaldefels
Luger Geierstein
Hochstein
Lämmerfelsen
and many more...

[Alexis]

TL....le Brotsch mieux que le Wolffelsen et le Langenfels.......
Les aficionados de la grotte perdent toute objectivité.....

[TL]

La qualité du rocher Alexis... la qualité du rocher... Il faut l'admettre le rocher n'est pas uniformément excellent au Wolffelsen et au Langenfels... d'où le **/*... La hiérarchisation est un exercice difficile et périlleux....
(mes autres facteurs d'évaluation étant : la qualité de l'environnement (le cadre), l'Histoire (surtout l'Histoire), la qualité des voies)

[ak]

[ak]

bed and breakfast (written on the topo):

Near Stasbourg 30 min drive (Kronthal + Brotsch) you have:
- Marlenheim: "le relais de la route du vin", tel 03 88 87 50 05
- Wasselonne: camping , tel 03 88 87 00 08

then 1h drive to the north of Elsass (Windstein + Pfalz), you have:

For Windstein + Pfalz (Germany)
- Windstein: hotel resto "Aux deux chateaux", tel 03 88 09 24 41
- Niederbronn camping du heidenkopf tel 03 88 09 08 46

[TL]