These last months were a fun climbing season, travelling all over Catalonia, with some outing to the neighbour region Aragón, meeting new people from different countries, consolidating old friendships, enjoying outdoor life, good food, good company and good climbing conditions. This is my personal photographic homage to the past winter. Hope to have an [...]
It is a not very usual sight, but this year we have got it! So we want to share this spectacular and rare view with you. February 2015: big snowfall in Catalonia. And Montserrat looks like that...
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 [...]
Beautiful view from the sector El Vermell del Xincarró at the end of the climbing day
Les Bruixes, Terradets, Catalonia from Jonas Wiklund on Vimeo. Swedish climber/photografer Jonas Wiklund visited Les Bruixes in Terradets for 10 days of climbing. He has compiled some of his photos into this really nice slideshow. He has also written an article in Swedish over att Borrbult.nu. More of Jonas photos can be found on his [...]
In Rodellar, everything is steep. Here Joseba is being lowered down after trying a long 8a. Note the big arch at the left of the photo. Rodellar is a small village located about 4 hours west of Barcelona. For long, steep climbs between 7b and 9a this is probably the best crag in the world. [...]
The author on tufas in Margalef. Photo: Fredrik Nyberg If I have to choose one place in the world to go sport climbing, my vote is on Margalef. I just love everything about this little valley. The routes are almost always just excellent. The valley is beautiful. The weather is good. And let's not forget: [...]
[singlepic id=61 w=500 h=float=center] Albert Cortes [nggallery id=11] Paco Rey repeating his own route, Radical Lliure, in Montrebei. Montrebei is the mecca for hard traditional climbing in Spain. The grade of Radical Lliure is 7b R. An interview with Paco is coming soon.
The author on-sighting a 6b+ Montsant, the pocket pulling paradise, gave us yet another great day of climbing the other day. Instead of heading up to the now quite famous Raco de Misa we found ourself at Roca de les Hores, the northern-most sector of the Montsant mountain chain. Our impression? Wow. Just check out [...]
Margalef, the little valley on the west side of the Montsant mountain close to Siurana, boasts some amazing climbing. Here you have > 600 routes from grade 4 to the latest Sharma 9a+ test piece. Here the american Sasha DiGiulian (born -92) easily sends Transilvania, 8a. I like that the little cloud showed up just [...]
