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 [...]
Monday morning and my forearms are dead. The mistake (from a climbing perspective) of the week was to go and play beach volleyball and enjoy a last day of the sand and sun before the winter. Thursdays training was hard and not having a proper rest day before the weekend took away any chance of [...]
Took a couple of days off at the beginning of the week to relax before starting a long weekend of work. With friends of Sweden we first found probably one of the few dry crags in Catalunya on Tuesday and then we headed down to Margalef where I join them climbing for one day before [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A lone climber on the left part of sector Vermell de Xincarró. Click the photo for help locating the climber. Are you planning a visit to Montserrat in the near future? Within a month, temperatures will drop and the south side of Montserrat will be a very good option for climbing near Barcelona. Sport climbing [...]
Unknown climber climbing an unnamed 6c in sector Desdentegada, Montserrat I have a crush on Montserrat. I just can not stop thinking about these amazing climbs. 5000 rope lengths in climbing in an area small enough to drive around in 45 minutes. How is it possible? Expect to read a lot more about Montserrat here. [...]
