ADDITIONAL CUBA CLIMBING INFORMATION Today (2010) the climbing scene in Cuba has matured from its infancy in ’97 and ’98 when we were first discovering how vast the potential was. There are now literally hundreds of routes and a new guidebook is out for the Vinales...

”The Flyin’ Hyena Wall“  (4 original climbs, more now) This superb, huge wall is located on the north wall of the Sierra de Ancon Mogote about 2.5 miles past the El Palanque Taverna in a large, 300-foot high cathedral-like cavity. There is a rather primitive lumber...

The “El Palanque Wall” (6 climbs) If one were standing near the entrance to the El Palanque Cavern and looking back towards the main road (ie looking roughly east), you would be looking at the Sierra De Guasasa Mogote and directly at the El Palanque Wall. We took an...

“Cuba Libre”, 11d, 160′ *See the MAP PAGE for locations ‘Cuba Libre’, also the namesake of a very popular, mind-bending Cuban drink, is climbing on ‘frozen’ flowstone drippings in its ultimate form, a triple decker topped off with a cherry of a roof some 200+ feet off...

CLIMBING NEAR VINALES HERE ARE NOW (AT LEAST) FOUR AREAS OF CLIMBING IN THE VINALES AREA. These are detailed in the new guidebook “Cuba Climbing.” 1.) Areas on Magote del Valle – within walking distance of Vinales. La Yunta, Guajiro Wall, Milenio, Ensenada de Raul,...

Mr. Magote”, 11d, 200 M As sometimes happens, I began to get ‘the itch’ to find new territory one day and ventured up a hillside of broken pastureland and jungle-like terrain located several hundred yards above (towards Vinales ) El Palanque Wall. As I skirted some...