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Sports climbing in Isfahan
As we have been travelling through Iran we have often been looking for sports climbing options. Mostly routes that are already bolted are of interest as we are not the most experienced.
We found some in Isfahan and wanted to share as we found it hard to find information about this in english.
At Mount Sofe or Sofe Park there is a lot of cliffs with routes. We found some by walking around on the paths and looking closely. We found bolted routes on the following spots:
32*35’31.86’’N 51*38’37.31’’E
and
32*35’47.78’’N 51*38’43.92’’E.
The bolted routes on the first spot are the only ones we tried. There is a few, including top anchors that are easily accessible without climbing. I am not an experienced climber and I only topped out one route. Fredrik is better but some of the routes was also difficult to him. There were fine anchors for abseil/rapelling as well. These routes are on the south turned side of the mountain, so they are good in winter when it is cold. I imagine I would prefer the others on the northern side in summer.
The walls we climbed were no taller than 30 meters (easily done with a 60 meter robe).
Sofe Park is well used by locals, especially on fridays. It is a nice area to walk in as you can both walk on safe pathways and you can follow small paths sometimes accompanied by a rope in the cliffs to hold on to. This makes it a lot of fun to climb to the top.
I hope this i useful information for others looking for climbing in Iran.
Before the rumble
Fredrik og jeg er overlanding-aspiranter. I september ’17 kører vi afsted med kurs mod Himalaya. Vi kører i en Toyota Hilux fra 1993, som vi har pimpet efter behov. Det er den bil Fredrik er vokset op med, og her på dens 24. leveår håber vi at den kan bringe os i hvert fald 15.000 km over land til Himalaya. Følg med i rejsen under tagget #FredrikogTopsioverland.
For et halvt års tid siger vi på gensyn til vores lejlighed i København, akvariefiskene og de mange planter og kører ud i verden. Det bliver vores første lange tur sammen – tidligere har vores ture sammen begrænset sig til 2 ugers varighed. Vi har vandret i Marokkos Atlasbjerge og besteget Jebel Toubkal (4167m), vi har samlet planter til et herbarie i georgisk Kaukasus, hvor Fredrik også besteg Mt. Kazbek (5033m) og vi har været på et vinterfjeldkursus i Norge.
Nu går turen gennem Europa til Tyrkiet, Iran, Pakistan, Indien og Nepal. Hvad der skal ske når vi når Himalaya er endnu uvist, men mon ikke noget viser sig?
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