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 [...]
To Savassona from Sweden with love from Christer Holmlund on Vimeo.A tale of two little boulderers in beautiful Catalunya The Swedes visiting Savassona a some weeks ago now have compiled a video from their stay. Looks like they had great fun! Thanks for sharing guys!
Strong man Urban Dufva hiking my project, Discordia. Photo: Pär Lindholm Plenty of work, training and climbing has kept me from writing about how my little climbing-training-experiment is going. To sum it up - just great! My finger injury seem to finally have sorted itself out (knock on wood!) and I can now go almost [...]
All photos Christer and John. Some Swedish climbers took a cheap RyanAir-flight to Girona, rented a car and took the short drive up to Savassona. There they checked in to the super nice house of Can Janot and spent a week climbing and enjoying the great winter weather of Spain. I had left them 3 [...]
CRIMPER!!! from javipec on Vimeo. Check out this cool bouldering video from the granite area of Castillo de Bayuela! Carles de Diego Boguñá, a local boulderer, sent us the following information: The place is Castillo de Bayuela in Toledo, close to Toledo city (60 Km) or 100 km west of Madrid. People from Madrid and [...]
[singlepic id=66 w=320 h=240 float=center] In preperation for the spring season we visited Margalef two days and talked to the lodging-owners that we work with down there. I'm really impressed with our lodging options there, now we truly can offer something for everyone! If you're a couple or a small group, we recommend you to [...]
Pete O'Donovan, the author of the guidebook Lleida Climbs, has just started a blog for the Lleida-area. There he and Albert Cortés will update us on new sectors, hard sends and and general information about climbing around Lleida. It is great to see a new blog in English for this great climbing area! So, check [...]
Me on a 7a in Malpas de Trevil. Photo: Fredrik Nyberg So, after a quick paus the training posts are back! Visiting Sweden was great, coming back home to Catalonia was great, and climbing has been really good over Christmas. Plenty of work to finish for our little company but now I will really try [...]
Sunset in Montgrony Yepp, these last couple of weeks have been more focused on finishing up work, receiving the last groups of clients for the year and a lot of meetings for everything we want to do with Active Spain next year. Kept on training and kept on climbing but without a lot to tell [...]
Strange week of hurting finger and finally really good days of rock. Feeling stronger and more energetic, good stuff! Again the amount of quality sleep I get and stress level really have clear effect. A lot of work this week but managed to keep stress under control. Actually miss the feeling of being destroyed by [...]