A lone climber on the left part of sector Vermell de Xincarró. Click the photo for help locating the climber. Are you planning a visit to Montserrat in the near future? Within a month, temperatures will drop and the south side of Montserrat will be a very good option for climbing near Barcelona. Sport climbing [...]
Two climbers climbing in the El Falco sector at Arboli Kathrin from Germany sent me an e-mail: Can you recommend some crags with nice routes between 6b and 7b (Siurana or elsewhere in the near) that are orientated to the south and get enough sun? I think we will need this in december.... Thanks, Kathrin The [...]
Unless you come to Spain more for the beaches than for the climbing, there are some golden rules to follow when planning your climbing trip to Spain: 1/ Summer is too warm. Big parts of Spain have a 12 month climbing season as long as you search for high altitude areas, like Cavallers, and stay [...]
Paco Rey working Falconetti, 8b+, in Montsant. He managed to send it in May, just before the summer heat. It's the time of the year when the weather for the big sends have arrived here in Catalonia, north-east Spain. It is fun to see all the web sites starting to report one amazing tick after [...]
My friend Jules sent me a message regarding one of the houses that I visited last week in the Siurana-area. We stayed in the Pla de Castell house near Cornudella last April, and it was awful! They had treated the rock walls inside the house with some sort of chemical, and the place stank. You [...]
Last week I spent a couple of days climbing and looking for apartments, hotels and houses in the Siurana & Costa Daurada-area to collaborate with. It was a very nice trip and I have now added four new lodging-options for the eager climber. It is very interesting meeting the owners to these nice places places [...]
The author on-sighting a 6b+ Montsant, the pocket pulling paradise, gave us yet another great day of climbing the other day. Instead of heading up to the now quite famous Raco de Misa we found ourself at Roca de les Hores, the northern-most sector of the Montsant mountain chain. Our impression? Wow. Just check out [...]
The village of Perles as seen from the crags [nggallery id=4] In the northern part of the province of Catalonia, in the comarca Alt Urgell, lays a small village named Perles. The area of Alt Urgell holds an immense amount of climbing but the question is not if the cliffs above Perles has the highest [...]
We here at Climb in Spain of course would like this web site to become the place to go to look for information about climbing in Spain. But to make it there we need your help to gather as much information as possible about climbing in Spain! We are looking for crags, climbers bars, restaurants, [...]
Julia has written a couple of excellent introductions to to areas around her adopted hometown of Barcelona, the Lleida-area and the Barcelona-area. In her Lleida-article she writes about the climbers bars: In Catalonia overall, and Lleida and Alt Urgell regions in particular, it is often the case that only the locals can get through the [...]