Some truly excellent and exciting news: The guidebook that Pete O'Donovan and Dani Andrada has been working on for the Lleida region is soon out for sale! The area covered by the guidebook is one of the best sport climbing areas anywhere in the world. The book is 332 pages thick and covers > 1900 [...]
[singlepic id=130 w=500 h=300 float=center] The view from the house in Cornudella Ah, finally the cold temps are closing in on Spain! Today it is 10 C colder here than just one week ago making at least my climbing psyche getting really worked up! The summer has been hot and hard with most days between [...]
[singlepic id=124 w=500 h=400 float=center] Looking for the best lodging option for your Rodellar stay? We are happy to present two very nice apartment in the center of the village - only minutes away from the closest climbing sectors! The house is beautiful and the flats are in excellent shape with big terraces, good kitchens, [...]
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.
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 [...]