Last week, Iker Pou once again visited the Lleida crags. Andoni Perez reports, he first made quick work, as in two tries, of Full Equipe, ~8c, at Oliana, a route bolted by Victor Fernandez, before moving on to Margalef and the Hermita sector, where he polished off the pocket race Abanico de cristal, 8c, for its [...]
UK Climbing and The Low Down has some excellent information about what has happened in Catalonia in the northeastern part of Spain this last week. UK Climbing: Bolger 9a, Ojeda 8c, Andrada 9a+ and Sharma The Low Down: Ramonet climbs new 8c+ Cataluña report Cataluña II Sharma climbs First Ley, 9a+ Do you have any [...]
Björn Pohl of my native Sweden runs maybe the most up-to-date climbing news blog in the world: The Low Down. Yesterday he posted a really nice interview with local climber Iker Pou who just did the second ascent of Sharmas route Demencia senil, 9a+ in Margalef. We climbed in the sector next to the Laboratori [...]
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! [...]
The new airport in Lleida (Alguaire), has been opened recently to the public. That's good news for the territory and good news for all climbers arround the world! From the airport, very close to Lleida, you can reach world class climbing destinations in less than 2h by car: Rodellar, Riglos, Santa Linya, Margalef, Cornudella de [...]
Hey! This last week and current days have been very cold. We had to handle with snow, wind and very low temperatures in order to climb. Luckily, most of the walls are south faced and dressed with our coats, gloves, hats and with some hot tea in our thermal bottles, we managed to climb. Some [...]
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 [...]