siurana

Hola!

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!