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So some time ago I´ve been in Spain for a little climbing trip with some friends. Here now, for you to see, are some 30 images of that trip. All shot on medium format film with my beloved Mamiya 7II!

Arriving at Barcelona Airport, on the way to the car rental.

We could stay at a friends house in Reus, her name is Conxa and you will see her later! The sun was about to set and i saw this beautiful painting with the last sunbeams on it and had to take a picture.

After the first day of climbing i wanted to inspect the property where the house was located. It´s a huge olive tree farm with lots of nice buildings and a nice garden with lots of benches and even a rooster in a cage! That was weird…

Oh and they have their own bamboo forest! That i wanna have too someday!

This is Siurana, one of the better climbing spots in Europe. Lots of hard routes there! This is the village up on the hill…ultimate beauty it is!

I guess this is my favorite photo of the trip. It shows the beauty of the landscape in Catalonia really well i guess! Lots of unclimbed rock there!

We had to stop here cause i thought it´s going to be a beautiful photograph!

The picture on the right shows the route “La Rambla”, one of the most famous and hard routes in Siurana (and worldwide).

Franziska in Siurana climbing a 6b+ route.

Our last day in Siurana. Weather didn´t turn out as we expected it during the trip, but it was okay, except on that day…-3°C…waaaay too fucking cold for climbing! So i just took a picture and went back to the car! Morli playing moron on the right!

That is the tourist area in Salou…it looked so fucked up without tourists and so dead, but i somehow found it nice for taking ugly-building-pictures.

On the left you see Siurana, on the right you see Margalef where we went for a 2day trip. Margalef has much shorter routes with a different kind of rock. I liked it more but it was supercold unfortunately. Morli flashing a 6c route.

Morli on a wee break.

Franziska at the beginning of Chris Sharmas project First Round First Minute, 9b. So you can soo how overhanging it is, what you dont see is that the holds of this route aren´t really there! CRAZY!!!

There is so much more potential. So many unexplored rock there…no wonder the climbing scene is so big in Spain atm…

So here we see 2 climbing stars on a superfamous and superhard route. Climbing is Nalle Hukkataival and belaying is Dave Graham. 2 world class climbers! The route is Demencia Senil 9a+ (First Ascent by Chris Sharma)

Checking out the routes…

…and climbing them!

Because it was too cold to climb on the last day we explored the area of Montserrat a little. Alpine style this is!

Conxa held a nice catalan bbq on our last day! She invited lots of friends and we had lots of onions and lots of alcohol!

So a catalan bbq exists of spring onions placed over fire…letting them burn black, grab em, peel the burnt parts of and eat the rest with sauce! So good!!!!

This is how they drink wine in Catalunya.

I guess they cooked about 500 onions.

Morli enjoying his food!

This is how you look like afterwards, or worse.

Thats his real hair (i thought it was fake)

Flying home over the alps…

So it´s been a great trip even though it was too cold most of the times…BUT I can recommend Catalonia to everyone out there, also if you don´t climb! It´s such a beautiful area with lots of even more beautiful villages! Go there, rent a car and explore!
And if you climb, i don´t have to tell you how amazing it is! Just go there!!!

The next post is already approaching so stay tuned!

Cheers!

Ahoi!

So here are my shots from our outback adventure last week. We had only 5 days planned for it and didn´t really know if we should book a tour or head out ourselves…We swore we´ll never ever book on a tour again but exploring the Outback for the first time…we didn´t really know what to expect so I had a look and found a nice tour which claimed to be off the beaten track and they had some good arguments for choosing them instead of the other backpacker tours, so we decided to give it a try! It was a good decision on the one side but still, not being able to stop whenever you want isn´t my sorta thing! Anyways, we had a good time and we slept under the stars in Swags (it´s an Aussie thing, google it!)! And that really is awesome! But enough talk, here are the photos:

Entering the plane in Melbourne. The uniformed lady didn´t like me taking a picture…yeeaaaaahhh like I´m a terrorist!

Approaching Alice Springs, Outback from above.

First stop on some stupid camel farm. They had Kangaroos as well. He wasn´t happy about me standing in his light.

Mt. Connor and Asians! Mt. Connor is in one line with Uluru and Kata Tjuta but is significantly older than the other ones, just so you know!

Uluru! Didn´t expect this rock to have such a big effect on me! It really is impressive in it´s size, just magical!

This is the way all the ignorants use to climb the rock. The Anangu people whish that noone climbs the rock because the path used for climbing is sacred to them. I don´t see the point in climbing the rock and the Base Walk (10km) is fascinating, but still many people don´t care about the Aboriginal people…

Sunset time…it´s hilarious: Tables with white table cloth and sparking wine, BBQ…they got everything for their customers!

But I have to say, Uluru during sunset is awesome to look at!

First night on the campground, almost alone (there were some other groups around, but the company we booked the tour with had it´s own campground a little further away than the other ones).

Next morning time for Kata Tjuta, the other and higher rock formation about 40km next to Uluru.

I love dead trees.

Valley of the winds. Breathtaking!

Mike, our guide, explaining how Uluru, Kata Tjuta and first of all Mt. Connor have been formed.

Everyone was asleep after the 4 hour walk!

Offroad firewood collecting.

Our second camp site. Bush, nothing else, we really were the only people around there! I guess in the end it was worth paying more for things like that.

The toilet!

Outback night art.

Time to get some rest in our swags.

Ulli and I felt adventurous so we placed our swags about 5m off the other ones! Everyone says it but its ture, you won´t see more stars than in the Australian Outback!

Kings Canyon, the next amazing site.

“The Garden of Eden”, a permanent waterhole in the desert.

Caroline, our swedish killerwoman helping out, we got bugged (I think our guide did it on purpose, for the experince…)

Last sunset in the Outback…

Alice Springs and the Outback have been a fantastic experience and we really enjoyed it. The Outback is so NOT how we expected it to be, so green and so many plants and animals out there, amazing! Next time we will come with a proper 4WD car and explore it ourselves, thats for sure!

That´s it for now, I need some rest before heading to the Bay of Fires tomorrow. We are travelling Tasmania at the moment (with a car we rent, not on a tour!) and it has been a pleasure so far. Today we stood at a beach and we haven´t been sure if it was snow or sand we were standing on, so white, unbelievable!
More to come soon!

Cheers to everyone and see you soon!