Training: April and May
Fredrik Nyberg on Solo para ella, 7b+, Mont-Ral Wow, time flies by when you have a lot of work! Since Easter my climbing outside has been limited, quite expected since the months of April and May together with September and October are the busiest for a small travel agency like ours. Training on the other hand has gone very well! [...]
Montrebei and Peña Montanyesa adventure climbs
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 time. The first weekend, we [...]
Sharing motivations
Sunny afternoon, after a relaxed day of sport climbing, we feel tired enough to enjoy a beer; while our table has already few bottles, the conversations starts from the motivation of this beautiful day to end up building thousands of plans, some “dream plans” some closer to our reality. We meet in this mythical climbers point a group of 3 [...]
Montserrat mystical climbing
Another sunny and beautiful morning, its Thursday and we’re enjoying May as a great month for rock climbing… We decide to meet here as a day of work, we should talk about “climbinspain” , which could be a better place?!! We hike into a canyon and follow the old path that takes us into a new secret climbing [...]
Esperó Nord a Montserrat!
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 be seen from the hut [...]
Training: Month of March
Tolo enjoying endurance training Well, not much to say about last month. Some horrible weather (for climbing) gave away for a couple of days of very nice skiing so some leg muscles have been added. The tourist season is on and our guests are starting to arrive as well as plenty of requests from groups for kick-offs and conferences. We [...]
Training: Falling! (and more)
Some jumps taken in Collegats last weekend. Last week I finally got my hands on Dave MacLeods book 9 out of 10 climbers make the same mistake. I watched most videos and read most articles from the strong and analytic Mr MacLeod and I think he is the best writing climber there is out there. Here is my review of [...]
Sector Cine in Collegats
The author enjoying a sunny afternoon of great conglomerate climbing. Photo: Elin Eriksson The past weekend we took a 2-hour drive up to the Collegats-area north of Lleida. It might not come as a big surprise to you who follow Climb in Spain that this is yet another post about a conglomerate area. For me personally, I find the climbing [...]