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Looking up at Cueva Cabeza de Vaca
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When you run out of water and it's hot as balls, spend your rest day at the ocean. Climb, swim, repeat. Cuba climbing is a fucking dream.
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Gregory Farlow
Feb 6, 2018
“Looking up at Cueva Cabeza de Vaca”  

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Looking up at Cueva Cabeza de Vaca
When you run out of water and it's hot as balls, spend your rest day at the ocean. Climb, swim, repeat. Cuba climbing is a fucking dream.
Gear: 10/15 draws & 60m rope. There's a few trad climbs but I don't think it warrants hauling the gear for how few there are. Some of the multi-pitch overhung will leave you dangling in space if you don't have a tag line. So you may want a second rope.
We reached out to Metolious trying to get them to donate some hangers for us to take but things didn't work out.
We moved over to a shorter wall and blasted up the right hand route climbing up roots, flakes pockets etc. On rappel I pendulum'd over 2 routes to the left and clipped the 2nd bolt since the first hanger was missing. Middle route missing 2nd & 3rd hanger
The climbs were all 5.8-10a and all within 5 minutes of each other. We warmed up on a long single pitch 5.8.
After meeting Raul (buying pinas and honey) we made our way across his farm, bushwhacking up the hillside to a small hanging valley.
Named after the farmer Raul who owns particular area and has a small private tobacco field at the base of the crags. We solicited a local kid to show us the way through the farm.
It's referred to as a mini Yosemite.
The limestone mogotes make up the valley and provide so many walls for climbing you could spend months there.
It was only a 2km walk but we managed to get lost. On our second attempt we found our crag, Esenada De Raul
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