Foradada del Toscar is a tiny village located between the two regions of Ribagorza and Sobrarbe, in the northern part of the province of Huesca, Aragón. You can hear local people often jokingly refer to this area as "Sobrarbe tropical", due to the surprisingly mild climate that it boasts. In fact, here you can [...]
These days in Catalonia are cold and dry, we barely reach temperatures above 5 degrees, but skies are mostly clear and the wind is just a gentle breeze. This gives us perfect conditions for climbing in sunny south-facing sectors. A good example is Les Saleretes, a small and peaceful spot in the province of Girona, [...]
The author enjoying a sunny afternoon of great conglomerate climbing. Photo: Elin Eriksson The past weekend we took a 2-hour drive up to the Collegats-area north of Lleida. It might not come as a big surprise to you who follow Climb in Spain that this is yet another post about a conglomerate area. For me [...]
Les Bruixes, Terradets, Catalonia from Jonas Wiklund on Vimeo. Swedish climber/photografer Jonas Wiklund visited Les Bruixes in Terradets for 10 days of climbing. He has compiled some of his photos into this really nice slideshow. He has also written an article in Swedish over att Borrbult.nu. More of Jonas photos can be found on his [...]
If you stay in Barcelona and want to climb really steep limestone the best (or only?) option is Calders. Next to the little village there are about a 100 steep and hard routes mainly in the 6c to 8b range. There are easier climbs but I suspect the best routes are 7c or harder. The [...]
Totxo de Ponent is a small sector on the south face of Montserrat. With only 12 routes that are fairly short, 10-20 meters of actual climbing, it might seem like a not so interesting sector to choose for a day of climbing (especially compared to everything else on the south face of Montserrat). Well, [...]
Sole climber nearing the anchor on a route at La Pauta (click photo to zoom in) Living in Catalonia and having access to basically unlimited amount of climbing is, as you can imagine, just amazing. One cool thing is that we very seldom go to famous areas and sectors. Instead we focus on smaller crags [...]
The gorge of Terradets lies in the west of Catalunya, between Lleida and the Pyrenees. Terradets is known for it's three multi-pitch adventure crags between 200 and 500m and it's famous sport climbing crag. In this post I want to focus in this last one: Paret de les Bruixes (Witches wall) Bruixes is a limestone [...]
Today has appeared on the net Iker's Pou footage on his last 9a+ sent: Demencia Senil. In Margalef. IKER POU - DEMENCIA SENIL (MONTAJE 2.1) from jordi canyigueral on Vimeo. Demencia Senil is a short route, graded 9a+ and first ascended by Chris Sharma some months ago. Iker Pou has done the 2nd repeat.
It's well known that Catalunya, the Basque Country, Arragón, Valencian country, Madrid, Andalucía, Galicia and all the other regions of Spain have lots of rock, lots of crags. Some are 5 star, some others are very small in comparison to El Chorro, Margalef, Siurana or Rodellar. But there are some others -less international- that are [...]
