Hannah L wrote:Hi everyone. My husband and I are trying to plan a climbing trip for sometime mid July - late July, or else early-to-mid August.
Given the summer season, I think you can rule out anything near the beach or down low. Will be too hot.
Leaves you higher altitude-ish stuff. Vercors might work. Les Dentelles. Dolomites. The Chiavenna area in Northern Italy is super.
Switzerland would work, but, lodging might be a bit more spendy than you're looking for. Well...everything more expensive...ha ha.
You might look at renting a house for your stay. The gites in France are a great deal. The popular spots might book early for summer season in the hills. Maybe nearer rock venues instead of more standard tourist spots might make it easier to find a spot on shorter notice. I rented a gite in Lans-en-Vercors for 10 days that we based out of and it was super. Good mix of sport and longer mountains to climb. Fun area.
La Grave area has a bunch of venues and the scenery and food is great. Ecrins are a big area with long and short options for climbing.
Easy to base out of Grenoble for a couple of weeks.
Ditto Cortina but lodging might be spendy in high season. Camping cheaper but still not cheap.
Anyhoo...some idears...good luck!