Santa Linya
For our final “airport” day we make a shortish drive to Santa Linya, and enjoy some of the steep juggy routes on sector football, a favourite of Helen and mine. […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
More pudding please!
The French call the conglomerate rock of Riglos “poudinage” – after the similarities with a lumpy fruit pudding. For our second helping we head over to Le Pison for the […]
Fiesta de Los Biceps
Rightly celebrated as one of the best routes in Europe, if not the world, I’d climbed Fiesta de Los Biceps about 6 years ago with Bill. At the time, Jake […]
The reason I don’t do rest days
My self-appointed coach announced that Day 4 of the trip was a rest day. He’s probably right, but it just seems ungrateful not to be climbing when there’s this much […]
Camarasa
Sunshine and temps in the high teens so we need to take the vampire somewhere shady – in fairness to Jake, it is pretty sticky in the sun. Camarasa is […]
Brutal at Bruixes
We spent a few days at Terradets last year, studiously avoiding sector Las Bruixes (The Witches). With just half a dozen routes under 7b and a reputation for polished sandbaggy […]
Viva Catalunya
We’re back in Spain for a boys break near Barcelona. Having finally arrived around 1am (thank you to the French air traffic control dispute ) we made a late arrival […]
