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! […]
Category Archives: Spain
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 […]
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