Vilanova de Prades
Somewhat overshadowed by its more famous neighbours, Vilanova de Prades offers about a kilometre of fine pocketed climbing above a very accommodating campsite. Aretes, grooves and corners feature heavily (much […]
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Margalef
We’ve crossed the border from Lleida into Tarragona to enter the Sierra de Prades. Only about 100 km to the south of where we’ve spent the last couple of weeks, […]
Santa Linya
Santa Linya is famous for the huge cave sector, containing more routes of 9a and above than the rest of the crags around Lleida put together (and that includes Oliana! […]
Tartareu
A trip to Tartareu offered what looked to be a winning combination of a good mix of grades and steep pocketed rock. It delivered on both counts, but also provided […]
More Terradets
We had a chilly trip up above Terradets for a visit to Collegats, a line of 30m conglomerate cliffs carved out by the Noguera river many millennia ago. This took […]
Vadiello
Vadiello is a major conglomerate crag, high in the Sierra de Guara. It gets the maximum 6* rating in the climbing ” bible ” for the trip – Donde Escalar, […]
Terradets
Terradets is an awesome series of cliffs that make up the western end of the Sierra de Montsec. Best known for the ridiculously steep Les Bruixes there are also more […]
Olvena
Now that’s a crag I bet you’ve never heard of. Olvena is a very typical Spanish crag, perched above a gorge about a mile outside the village of the same […]
Rainy day
Rain – Nature’s way of telling you to have a rest day. Time to recuperate aching limbs and catch up on the household (van-hold?) chores. A trip to a decent […]
Sierra de Guera
The Sierra de Guera national park lies between Huesca (where Riglos is) and Lleida (Terradets etc) and is a high plateau sluced by deep canyons. These provide the environment for […]
Le Poudinage et les vultures
We’re at Riglos – with its famed towers or Maĺlos of conglomerate rock. This is a village at one with the rock – a special place for climbing and climbers. […]
Bienvenidos en Espana
Arriving from Andorra into Spain brings you down the Oliana valley. After a quiet night in a deserted campsite high above the town, we awoke to a chilly morning and […]
Climbing above Ax
We experienced two contrasting faces of the climbing above Ax Les Thermes. On Sunday we did a 500ft route high on the South East face of the Dent d’Orlu. Bigish […]
Autumn is catching up
Time to shuffle further south – forecast for a spot of rain here mid next week so we’re heading south. Here are a few autumnal shots including the view from”Camping […]
Back to Alliat
Headed back to Alliat today as a) it’s shady and b) it’s by far the best limestone crag we’ve found around here, and amongst the best I’ve climbed on anywhere! […]
Alliat, Le Carol and Pereille
The last few day’s climbing has been focused on seeking out shade – how crazy is that, in late October in the Pyrenees? Alliat is a stupendous crag with some […]
‘Appy Birthday Helen
Where better than the crag of Appy – set high up amongst sheep pastures at 1200m this Gneiss little crag has a fantastic ambience. The climbing is pretty decent too, […]
Dent d’Orlu
A rest day for aching arms provided a window for a sprint up the Dent d’Orlu, the most pronounced landmark above Ax les Thermes. 10km of dirt track proved easy […]
Sinsat
Back to the limestone and an initial foray to Sinsat. The upper crags here look awesome (see panorama) but we left those for a future trip. The lower tier crags […]
Auzat
…or maybe ‘ows ‘at for a crag. A switch to granite for the day yields a cooler temperature and less crimpy climbing. Just what the doctor ordered.
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