Easter holiday Ramonet style
Easter is approaching, and Ramon took the opportunity to visit a few Cataluñan crags: Vilanova de Prades, Margalef and Siurana. He's mostly been relaxing on 8a-8b+ routes, but also made a typically quick ascent of Buma ye, 8c+, at Margalef. 5 tries in 2 days.
Pereira likes his coffee
Argentinian, Danilo Pereira has repeated the very steep El Templo del café, 8c+/9a, at Alquezar (Huesca). Some think it's 9a, and some, including Danilo, say 8c+.
More Margalef news: Iker repeats Víctimas Perez (9a)
Yesterday, Iker Pou did the first repeat of Víctimas Perez. A 9a route at the Racó de les finestres, Margalef. It was first ascended by Ramonet and was bolted by Chris Sharma and also Dani Andrada and Oscar Jimenez. The bad thing is Iker was bolting a new route and someone has stolen the carabiners and the fixed rope hanging [...]
First visit to Sant Joan and a new home
Me sending a nice 6B A couple of weeks ago we finally dropped by Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, the big bouldering area outside of Manresa and about an hours drive from Barcelona. I've visited a fair amount of bouldering areas around the world and my first impression was more than positive. There are some huge boulders out there! The rock [...]
Jung climbs Jungle speed, 9a
Daniel Jung has made the FA of a route he calls Jungle speed, in the La Capella- sector at Siurana. Daniel says he didn't think the project looked that hard, maybe 8b+, but that it took a long time for him to solve the single moves, which turned out to be the hardest he has done on a route: "The [...]
FA and 2nd ascent of La ley innata
Dani Andrada, who seems to be in great form at the moment (as if this wan't always the case) has made the FA of La lay innata, 8c+/9a, just to the left of the infamous FRFM-project at Margalef (Laboratoria). Close on the heels of Dani, was Ramon Julian Puigblanque. Source: Kairn and Ramon's blog
Ondra and Golpe de estado
As most of you probably know already (sorry for being so slow), Adam Ondra has made the 2nd ascent of Chris Sharma's Golpe de estado, 9b, at Siurana. This is especially interesting for two reasons: 1) It's Adam's first 9b 2) It's the first 9b ever to see a 2nd ascent (Adam confirmed the grade) It's also the route Adam [...]
Terradets taste menu: Bruixes
The gorge of Terradets lies in the west of Catalunya, between Lleida and the Pyrenees. Terradets is known for it's three multi-pitch adventure crags between 200 and 500m and it's famous sport climbing crag. In this post I want to focus in this last one: Paret de les Bruixes (Witches wall) Bruixes is a limestone crag with a little mixture [...]