During the spring we had question about where and how to find the best rental car deals. I have found that Irish company Carhire 3000 offers a really good search engine and normally can find the best deals so that's what I normally recommend. In fact, for a two months trip to the US a [...]
XESCA, the climber coalition of Catalunya, informs us that the Santa Linya cave is closed until 1st of August due to archaeological works. Please respect this.
Finger injury caught in action Finally I had a break from work and managed to time up with a fellow Swede visiting Spain to visit Rodellar. With Monday being a bank holiday in Barcelona and the high season in Rodellar in full swing, Friday night was sure to bring a big crowd. The plan was [...]
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 [...]
25 degrees last weekend, almost one week of sun and warm weather. The snow in the mountains is melting… Spring is right here! So today we are presenting you this crag, which is perfect for this season, Sadernes. Sadernes is part of a very small town in the northeast of Catalunya called Sales de Llierca, [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday, Iker Pou did the first repeat of Víctimas Perez. A 9a route at the Racó de les finestres, Margalef. It was first ascended by Ramonet and was bolted by Chris Sharma and also Dani Andrada and Oscar Jimenez. The bad thing is Iker was bolting a new route and someone has stolen the carabiners [...]
Me sending a nice 6B A couple of weeks ago we finally dropped by Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, the big bouldering area outside of Manresa and about an hours drive from Barcelona. I've visited a fair amount of bouldering areas around the world and my first impression was more than positive. There are some huge [...]
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 [...]