Looking for a good place to stay while bouldering in the excellent granite area known as The Chaos of Targasonne? Look no further, the Gite Chaos is what you're looking for! Open last year and located only a kilometer from the bouldering this is the perfect basecamp for your bouldering vacation. If you're interested, please [...]
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!
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 [...]
Looking for a good bouldering destination with stable weather this winter? Come here to Spain and try some of our excellent bouldering areas! With the guidebook E-Bloc you get a good introduction to some of the best areas down here. These areas are covered: Targasonne (Selected climbs only) Savassona Sant Joan de Vilatorrada Belianes/Malda Cervia [...]
Working us through the E-Bloc guide, we of course had to try some conglomerate bouldering in Sant Joan! A bit tricky to find the way though, and the old sign that said "Fiasa" was very old. This pretty small area offered a nice parking lot (read: campsite), some really cool lines and, believe it or [...]
Although situated at almost 1600 metres above sea level in the middle of the French Pyrenees, bouldering in Targasonne is still possible, and maybe at its best, in the beginning of March. We didn't expect that when we drove from the coastal area up in the mountains, passing several skiing resorts in their peak of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We've written a little about the bouldering we have here in Catalonia in the north east of Spain. Shown some photos. Trying to get our friends from abroad to come here to boulder with us. Then out of nowhere "Outside - the bouldering movie" shows up featuring some of the coolest bouldering areas in Catalonia! [...]
[singlepic id=104 w=320 h=240 float=right]After a couple of years away my recent visit to Savassona brought the good feeling of bouldering bac. I've already promised myself to aim for quite a few days of bouldering this year and given the current cold spell of Spain it seems like an excellent choice. Information in English about [...]