Christmas week is an annual phenomenon where USAC travels south around Christmas and New Year to experience the most epic climbing adventures and enjoy the holidays! The promo for it will be released in October/November! You need to have at least IV before Christmas week.

For questions: send an email to hshg@usac.alpenclub.nl

This year (2023/2024), 23 USAC members went to les calanques during Christmas week! We left early in the morning of December 27 at 7:00 AM and arrived again in the evening of January 6. The days in between were filled with scrambling with the most beautiful view! For a detailed report and some nice photos here the post about the christmasweek of 2023/2024.

In recent years these were the locations for Christmas week:

  • ‘22-’23 to Calanques
  • ‘22-’23 to Corsica
  • ‘21-’22 to Costa Blanca
  • ‘20-’21 canceled 🙁
  • ’19-’20 to Calanques
  • ’18-’19 to Corsica
  • ’17-’18 to Calanques
  • ‘16-‘17 to Lleida and La Mussara
  • ‘15-‘16 to Calanques
  • ‘14-‘15 to St Victoire and les Calanques
  • ‘13-‘14 to Calanques and Finale Ligures
  • ‘12-‘13 to Corsica
  • ‘11-’12 to Seynes, Russan and Calanques (christmasweek ‘on tour’ in South-France)
  • ‘10-’11 to Calanques
  • ‘09-’10 to Sainte Victoire
  • ‘08-’09 to Sperlonga
  • ‘07-’08 to Chateauvert
  • ‘06-’07 to Calanques
  • ‘05-’06 to La Mussara
  • ‘04-’05 to Finale Ligure
  • ‘03-‘04 to Montserat