The weather gods delivered a major storm overnight – biblical rainfall served up with accompanying pyrotechnics of sheet lightning and crashing thunder. There was no way there would be any […]

We woke up this morning to find the van had been invaded by a giant slug. See photo. The weather wasn’t looking great so we set off for Siurana with […]

This week it’s open house on the Oughton road trip. First guest appearance of the week is Warby and we head for sector “Camping” at Vilanova de Prades. Apparently much […]

Siurana is the “Queen of the Prades” and an early contender for “world’s best crag” in the infancy of the development of sports climbing in the ’80s. With well over […]

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 […]

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 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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]