El Cogul is the most climbed, famous and big crag in Les Garrigues, Western Catalunya. This crag contains the sectors between the towns of El Cogul and l'Albagés.
This area became very well known after the X-Tone competition done in 2008.
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Overall El Cogul offers more than 500 routes with a high variate of styles and skill level. From lowballs with lots of easy lines for beginners to highballs with kinglines for the experts and fearless.
The rock type is sandstone featuring a great variety of styles; physical with its pockets and huecos and skill tester with the slopers. The landings are mostly flat.
Is is a good family destination as most of the sectors have easy approaches and good terrain for the kids and there is a high concentration of lines in each sector.
Some super classic lines here would be:
- Do or Die 8B
- Bullet 8A
- Les Gallines 7C+
- Beer Action 7C
- Hidrofobica 7B
- La comella 7A
- Alfons a la dreta 7A
- La balena 6C
- Bong 6B
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El Cogul has very little shade making it an ideal winter destination with high grip (which you will need for the slopers) and lots of sun. Take care with foggy days though, sometime it is so dense that can last mor days!
The south orientation of almost all sectors means that summer here is a living hell.
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The signal in the area is quite poor so it is recommended to download the Premium topo to be used offline.
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Besides all the route information, the constantly growing 27 Crags Premium topos have GPS coordinates for each boulder and offline use in the app. These guarantee you won't get lost while navigating to the right rock and that bad internet connection won't stop you browsing the topos!
As in all the climbing areas, behaving correctly is crucial. No littering, no climbing on wet rock, brush away all the tick marks and stay on the obvious paths.
