To reach Alaro you drive up a windy, switchback road for 15 minutes, hoping someone isn't coming the other way. Park at the goat farm/restaurant and do a little hiking.
Our destination was Sector Chorreras, just one of the sparsely developed areas on the huge wall. This area is home to Buf!, considered by many people to be the best 7a (11d) in the world.
While there I climbed Buf!, the 11+ beside it, and the 12a beside it. All climb tufa systems for 25-30m and are amazing. Is Buf! the best in the world? Who knows but it is worthy of all its praise, simply fantastic.
I'm cleaning the 11+ here, Buf! climbs the tufas to the right.
After a short day (the wall gets in the sun a little after noon, we hiked to the top of the wall where the ruins of a 13th century castle loom over the valley.
Restaurant/goat farm in the blurred background.
A German couple clued us in to a most interesting fact: there's a bar at the top of the mountain! Everything is brought in via horseback and you pack out your own trash.
A nice 30 minute hike down leads back to the car and some European rally-car driving down the switchbacks.
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