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	Map of rock climbing areas around Lake Como and Lecco

The best time of the year to visit Lake Como to go rock climbing is from late march to June, and September to October. In the summer it gets very hot and in the winter it gets lots of rain and even snow. Ideally for the sports routes a 70m single rope is required, though a 60m rope will be fine for a good percentage of the routes. For the long mountaineering style multi-pitch routes twin 50m ropes are required.

Milan is well serviced by the budget airlines such as RyanAir with flights from all over Europe. Along with plenty of accommodation this makes Lake Como a good cheap place to go rock climbing in Europe.

Rock climbing around Lake Como

Lake Como is only 25 miles north of Milan and is situated in the pre-alpine zone, which offers some fantastic scenery. The majority of the rock climbing is situated on the east side of the lake around Lecco, with many buttresses overlooking the lake or situated in the peaks that rise spectacularly from the lake. The type of rock found here is a white, compact granite rock.

There is a great diversity of rock climbing to be found around Lake Como, with 65 different crags to choose from and 1000's of routes at all grades. There are many single pitch sports routes through to long multi-pitch routes up to 500m long, which require a mountaineering approach. However there are many multi-pitch sports routes between 100m to 300m long, and it is possible to be sports climbing at altitudes of over 1,700m.

Lecco in the foreground, with the granite peaks behind that offer the good quality sports climbing to be found at Lake Como.

There is a guidebook with covers all the sports routes and multi-pitch routes around Lake Como called "Arrampicate Sportive E Moderne Fra Lecco E Como".
It details 65 separate crags with each crag having a good location map and clear topo's for each route. French grades are used throughout.
Buy this guidebook for Lake Como from our shop.

Bouldering north of Lake Como
To the north of Lake Como is some of the best bouldering in northern Italy at places such as Val di Mello and Cimaganda.
Val Di Mello is located in a high alpine valley, which is also called “Little Yosemite”. The bouldering is spread out for several kilometres along the bottom of this valley. There are many problems here across a wide range of grades on high quality granite rock.
Cimaganda is situated close to the border with Switzerland in an alpine meadow. There are plenty of problems from easy to Font 8a. The rock type is "gneiss", and the boulders along the riverbed are smooth and frictionless, which those in the meadows are course and have excellent friction. The best time to boulder at both of these areas is from late spring to early autumn as they are both relatively high at an altitude of over 1,000m.
Mello Boulder is the most comprehensive guidebook that describes the bouldering at Val di Mello, Valmasino & Cimaganda, and can be bought from our shop.

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