Costa Rica

Post by **Horatio Felacio** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 8:01 pm

anyone know of any climbing here?

Post by **Hefe** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 9:09 pm

I was there last April. Could not find any climbing. There are a lot of huge mountains but it is so lush with vegitation, I think finding exposed rock is unlikely. Are you going there? The place is Incredible!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 9:27 pm

I saw some info on rec.climbing about climbing in Costa Rica. It ain't much. Here's a Google search page for you to start with:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=costa ... &scoring=d

My best friend in the world was in the Peace Corp in Costa Rica in the late 80's and he sent me unbelieveably beautiful photos. I regret never having visited him there. I seem to recall the political situation there can get ugly at times lately.

Post by **gulliver** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 12:12 am

I have some climbing contacts there; mostly sport,short routes on very sharp rock. Climbing doesn't seem to be that established down there though ,so I don't know how hard they are looking. One of them said his half day at the gorge was like a 'dream come true', the other one's graduation present was a trip to Switzerland to climb in the biggest honking gym he could find. Supposedly he's their ranking junior climbing champion. They keep saying it's volcanic and very painful?