22 Siracusa
Siracusa
Antro dell’Eco The Alfano area has been improved thanks to a new sector, confirming the great potential of Canicattini Bagni, which still to this day has only seen a small section of its rock bolted. The sector is characterized by a great wall which consists of excellent grey rock which climbs up to an overhanging cave. Beautiful and interesting routes on slab run up the vertical walls, requiring technique and which are never simple. On the upper cave, the grey rock leaves place to tufas and yellow-ochre coloured concretions, the overhangs require athletic climbing and endurance. Shouts of joy for achieving a free ascent or swear words for an unexpected fall echo across the nearby valley, this is where the name of the sector comes from. The sector’s exposure makes it ideal during the summer months, when most of the other sectors are already under the baking sun, but even during the winter, for those looking for the ideal grip conditions or waiting for a timid sun ray during the afternoon. The area is quiet and the view overlooks the surrounding
340m
Antro dell’Eco
W/NW
15’
22 countryside and other canyons with rock faces which are still in waiting to be explored. One of the sectors was bolted by Massimo Flaccavento and Antonio Tidona. Access From Canicattini Bagni as for other the sectors of Contrada Alfano and park roughly 50 meters before the farm Case Timpa Rossa, on an opening to the right. Access: From the car park head towards the farm, just before the houses go left and cross the field towards north, go by a narrow passage in the stone wall and continue walking along a small wall on the right to the end of the field delimited by a fence, climb over the wall on the right and just after head down on the left on rocks and down a short trail, shortly after, climb over the wall on the left and follow tracks through the holly oak woods which shortly leads you to the sector.
muretto low wall
low wall Antro dell’Eco
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29 Antro dell’eco, Mirto Monaco, Fantasia al potere 7c+ (Ph. R. Zampino) g