Last week my friend Joakim and I had a fun day up on the impressing wall Paret de les Bagasses in Terradets. We wanted to a route all the way to the top so we choose Mescalina, 450 meters and 16 pitches. I would say that the route is perfectly bolted and really is a [...]
Totxo de Ponent is a small sector on the south face of Montserrat. With only 12 routes that are fairly short, 10-20 meters of actual climbing, it might seem like a not so interesting sector to choose for a day of climbing (especially compared to everything else on the south face of Montserrat). Well, [...]
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 [...]
[singlepic id=108 w=500 h=400 float=center] Nalle working Humildes pa casa, 8c. Photo from Nalles blog. A couple of days ago I was going through my RSS-feeds and saw a new post by Nalle Hukkataival, the strong Finish boulderer with FA up to 8C. Now he is visiting Catalonia in northern Spain and trying to build [...]
Last week I went with some friends to climb in the huge cliffs of Vilanova de Meià. Vilanova de Meià is a very small village near Lleida. It may go unnoticed by most but it is well known to climbers because of its large amount of rock. The crag itself, and it's surrondings, can be a [...]
Another nice Montserrat sunset. Click the photo to see the needle we climbed. After a year living in Barcelona and about 30 days of climbing and 10 days of hiking in Montserrat time finally came to try one of the magic needles this crazy little mountain has to offer. As always I turn to Pere [...]
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 [...]
The author on the magnificent traverse on the third pitch After reading this inspiring blog post, the route Redrum above the village Àger was the route of choice for our Saturday of climbing. We left Terrassa Friday night and finally arrived an hour after midnight to the base of the walls. Slept by the side [...]