Foradada del Toscar is a tiny village located between the two regions of Ribagorza and Sobrarbe, in the northern part of the province of Huesca, Aragón. You can hear local people often jokingly refer to this area as "Sobrarbe tropical", due to the surprisingly mild climate that it boasts. In fact, here you can [...]
The "Bats Arête", a funny name that undoubtedly catches your attention when you first hear it and which makes you stare at the outline of the mountain while you approach it, seeking in vane for some shape remembering you of the silhouette of the nocturnal flying mammal. It is a high-mountain activity that leads us [...]
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 [...]
Summer is hot here in Catalonia, but our beloved Montserrat has always something good to offer. The North face is a good option for hot summer days. You can choose among a good number of small sport climbing sectors. The most are in shade in the afternoon or in the morning, but you also have [...]
Ok... that was our winter time...and it's over... :) Now we are back to Catalonia, to the mild weather and to climbing! For the last two months we have been enjoying Montserrat: the climbing paradise in our backyard. And since November we are receiving friends non-stop from all over the world. As we are based [...]
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 [...]
Our guides was quite busy last winter. Climbing a lot and putting up a couple of new long traditional routes in the impressive Monrebei-area. Now Lisi and Salva have put together a little film from their adventures. Thank you very much for sharing! This is a wild area and it's not often you find interesting [...]
As we been almost a week under the rain, we had already a great season of multipitch climbing. Our meeting point, during two weeks was MONTREBEI, they came from Montserrat (David and Salva and few more partys) and II'm coming from the Benasque’s valley, in the Aragon’s Pyrenees. We climbed a coupple of routs each [...]
As the weather is extremely warm for being April we decided to climb in the north face of Montserrat, even though the first pitches were with sun, the temperature was great. We choose to climb “Espero Nord ” in the right part of the “Serrat del Moro”, the long and vertical corner that easily can [...]
