IL BUDINETTO (su trau)

Locality: Cala Gonone

Access: When you arrive at Cala Gonone, turn left just before the petrol station and the “Hotel Mastino”; leave your car and follow the small road to the amphitheatre on foot (5 minutes). Recommended season: throughout the whole year.

Description: Wonderful limestone cliff; ideal for those who like to climb on easy and secure routes.

Position / orientation: West side; from early morning until noon there is shadow; accessible throughout the whole year.

Style/technique: Face climbing on faces washed out by erosion; in the areas of higher pitches the faces are even vertical.

Height : From 15 to 18 metres.

Execution: The routes are bolted.

Ropes: 60 metres long.

Recommended season: Throughout the whole year.

Number of routes: About 22.

Nailing / pegging: Very well equipped with resin-anchored bolts and pitons. Belay stations with pitons and chains.

Notes: The slabs of FLINTSTONE are situated on the opposite cliff, on the left side of the steep face mentioned above; upper part. Time: 10 minutes.

Access: Follow the route described above until the first tree on the left, then proceed across the section of the furrows up to the foot of the evident rock wall. (5 ways).

BUDINO DEI GIGANTI – “GIANTS’ PUDDING” (monte Chessavia)

Locality: Cala Gonone

Description: Huge rock massif that resembles a pudding. The kind of climbing is exclusively traditional. Some routes have been fitted out with pitons and climbing devices by the mountain troops. It is composed of limestone with many cracks in the rock.

Position /orientation: It is situated on the north-east side.

Nailing / pegging: Pitons and bolts on some routes. Loops of webbing on the spot; take nuts and friends with you.

Height: The routes are from 150 to 200 metres long.

Number of routes: There are 12 routes with many possibilities.

Ropes:  2 ropes, 50 metres long each.

How to arrive: Take the track to the “Budinetto”, but instead of driving to the sheepfold, turn into the little road on the left, proceed for 100  metres and leave your car on the open space an the right; it will take 10 minutes to arrive at the foot of the rock face.