Ramon Julian Puigblanque, has made the second ascent of Era bella, Chris Sharma's recently opened 50m rig in the La Visera de la coma sector at Margalef. After messing it up a bit on the first couple of tries, Ramonet then pulled himself together and did it on his 3rd go.
Enzo Oddo has done it again. After five 9a-ish routes last year, Enzo has now done the first for the year by making the 3rd ascent of Victimas Perez, 9a, in the Raco de la finestra sector at Margalef. The route basically consists of a 30m of steep left traversing wall climb, roughly ~8c+ in its own [...]
I had a brief chat with Chris Sharma today, basically just to check what's up. Chris says it seems like the season is kinda finished in the Laborati sector at Margalef "So FRFM will have to wait till the fall. At this point I feel I've had plenty of time and am more than happy [...]
Iker Pou has made the 2nd ascent of Il Domani, 9a, at Baltzola, a mega resistance route according to him. Quite different to his previous two 9a-range 2nd ascents, Demencia senil and Victimas Pérez. Obviously this was a challenge for him, as it doesn't really suit him that well. The all natural ~70 move route [...]
Despite complaining about feeling sick yesterday, and being generaly miserable due to bad weather, Dave Graham pulled one out of the hat today by doing Open your mind, 8c+, at Santa Linya. "KING OF THE CAVE TODAY!!! HOOORAYYY!!!!!!! One more route of the list in the cave, which is just GREAT". Now... is it just [...]
Pierre Delás from Kairn interviewed Chris Sharma and Daila Ojeda while he was in Catalunya a while back. You can find the English versions here (Chris) and here (Daila).
Tom Bolger has fought his way up Open your mind direct, 9a, at Santa Linya for his 3rd of the grade: "After a couple of familiar boulder problems at the base of the crag to warm up, and waiting for the good conditions to arrive I found myself clipping the chains. Looking up at the extension shaking [...]
Yesterday, Markus Jung repeated Richard Simpson's A Muerte at Siurana, 8c+/9a, a route that's quickly becoming a hard core classic. After the FA, Richard described the route: "The route I climbed is about 20 metres long. It starts with a nasty one finger pocket, on a wall that overhangs about 25 degrees. You climb 10 [...]
Easter is approaching, and Ramon took the opportunity to visit a few Cataluñan crags: Vilanova de Prades, Margalef and Siurana. He's mostly been relaxing on 8a-8b+ routes, but also made a typically quick ascent of Buma ye, 8c+, at Margalef. 5 tries in 2 days.
Argentinian, Danilo Pereira has repeated the very steep El Templo del café, 8c+/9a, at Alquezar (Huesca). Some think it's 9a, and some, including Danilo, say 8c+.