Riglos is an awesome place for multi-pitch sport climbing: its idyllic location, its stunning skyline, its special kind of rock with a lot of big, rounded holds commonly called "potatoes", its 300 metres of vertical, slightly overhanging walls, make it a unique spot, where you can really taste the feeling [...]
The summer heat is here so this weekend we headed up to higher grounds and did the high quality easy route Pink Floyd in Dent d'Orlu, just over the border into France. It's a fairly easy route, fully bolted with high quality granite (and some grass on the shelfs). The area is nothing short of [...]
Topo from www.tibalifort.blogspot.com On a sunny November Friday we head to the magnificent Roca Ponent in the area called Vinya Nova on the South Face of Montserrat to climb the sports multi-pitch route "Vendetta". We park the car at the spacious parking just below the Restaurant Vinya Nova (5 minutes' drive from both villages [...]
Last week we were glad to welcome Joakim from Sweden, who wanted to discover something new for him. He is an experienced climber, but had never tasted the special kind of rock we have got here: conglomerate! Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that contains large rounded clasts. The space between the clasts is generally [...]
Another good weekend of climbing started with a bouldering session on sandstone in Savassona, a day on granite in Solious on Saturday and finally another amazing Montserrat-adventure on Sunday. Clipping the first bolt Adventure route? But isn't it bolted? Yes indeed, like many of the routes in Montserrat it is bolted. But what does this [...]
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 [...]
