sunnuntai 30. syyskuuta 2012

Diversing Sicily

Mika Huhtamaki

Our flight to Trapani arrived at 23:30 on Saturday and it took about on hour from the arrival to get our car and another hour to drive through the Sicilian countryside to San Vito Lo Capo. We finally met our local contact around 2 am and soon after that got our apartment. After all the hashle at four a'clock in the Sunday morning we got to bed.


Wakeup on the Sunday "morning" was around noon and  of course we felt dizzy and tired after the long night. Luckily Sunday was the last day of the annual Couscous festival so we decided to head out to see the city and to eat. Surprisingly the whole city was like a marketplace packed with turists, busses and cars. Street kitchens offered different tastes of couscous in the international event. And of course couscous was  our main menu for the day.

Initial idea for the afternoon was to head out to the local crags and climb few routes before the sunset. Initial plan was good but finding the planned crag wasn't too obvious. After several attempts we finally found a dirt road, closed by a wire gate, heading towards the rocky beaches. At that stage the sun was already setting so there was no reason to drive any further, no climbing today. Instead of the planned climbing session we decided to locate other clinbing crags for the upcoming days.

During the day we saw different sides of the Sicily. Urban cily and beach life packed with tourists, old and abandoned houses, waste dumps just behind the corner, cattle pasturing on the large rugged fields and a beautiful sunset to the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily has many diversing faces. See our photos below.




Sicily 30.9.2012

lauantai 29. syyskuuta 2012

Oktoberfest in Sicily

Mika Huhtamaki
San Vito Lo Capo is located nearby Trapani and Palermo

Finnish fall is mostly rainy and rocks are too slippery for enjoyable climbing. So we had only one viable option, head out to a more suitable place for practicing outdoor activities. And surprisingly our destination is again Italy but this time the southern part of it. So this year our October fest will be in Sicily in a small city at the western part of the island.



Road to Sicily
Lot of climbers have been visiting Sicily but we tried to find something new. After a bit of research Sami located a small city called San Vito Lo Capo. San Vito is famous for couscous, sunny beaches and a great number of Italian sunbathers. Beaches are nice but we enjoy more the rocky wilderness. And this place has a lot to offer for a rock climbers who prefer almost untouched red limestone next to the Mediterranean Sea. Majority of the routes are next to the sea and bolted after 2005.

Stay tuned, there's more to come... And remember that there is always a place where the sun shines!

San Vito Lo Capo
Sunset to Mediterranean Sea.
Rock Adventurers posing  on the summit.


Sicily 29.9.2012

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