Climbing Areas Archives: Spain

Chris Sharma Bouldering At X-Tone Comp

Posted May 18, 2008 at 5:12 pm · Comments { 0 } ·
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News & Notes – 5/8/2008

News & Notes – 5/8/2008

Posted May 5, 2008 at 11:11 am · Comments { 5 } ·

Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his recent FA of Golden Direct (5.14d) at the Cathedral in Utah.  You can read more about it here, here and […]

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More On Dave MacLeod’s 5.14b Free Solo

Posted March 21, 2008 at 3:45 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Last week, Dave MacLeod made news when he reported that he had free soloed Darwin Dixit (5.14b) at Margalef, Spain.  As Gabor pointed out in the comments at the time, Kairn.com was raising a question about the grade of the route.  They seemed to be downplaying the effort by pointing out that Chris Sharma onsighted […]

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Dave MacLeod Free Solos 5.14b in Spain

Dave MacLeod Free Solos 5.14b in Spain

Posted March 12, 2008 at 1:32 pm · Comments { 23 } ·

Dave MacLeod, best known for his difficult headpoints in Britain, recently free soloed Darwin Dixit (5.14b) in Margalef, Spain.  Unless someone can think of something harder, this is probably the hardest free solo (not a highball boulder) ever done.  I couldn’t find much information on the route as far as how tall it is or […]

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Mallorca

Mallorca

Posted February 11, 2008 at 1:30 pm · Comments { 25 } ·

EMS is shooting their new catalog in Mallorca and they have Chris Sharma and Joe Kinder (among others) on the scene. Joe has started posting updates on the first couple of days on his blog. Check out his site for updates as their trip progresses and check out these first few photos in the meantime.   […]

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News & Notes – Mass Update

News & Notes – Mass Update

Posted January 21, 2008 at 4:28 pm · Comments { 2 } ·

Thanks to James for compiling this massive list of updates. In this update you will find a lot of news on Dai Koyamada’s exploints in the Frankenjura. Also news from Daniel Woods, Jon Cardwell, Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Lisa Rands and Paxti Usobiaga among others. This has taken me longer than anticipated so some of […]

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More Hard Sport Routes in Spain

More Hard Sport Routes in Spain

Posted December 9, 2007 at 3:11 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Thanks to James for compiling this news In more sport climbing news: Patxi Usobiaga: repeated La Rambla (9a+) on Nov 27, 2007 at Siurana, Spain. The route had its first ascent by Ramón Julian Puigblanque and had been repeated by Edu Marin, Chris Sharma, and Andreas Bindhammer. Many of the climbers used different beta, where […]

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