Travel Resume - Spain Special

TOURISM - my new home
- Barcelona and its song and its fiesta la Merce
- Granada and again
- Madrid and Prado and again and again
- Toledo

CLIMBING
Around Barcelona (1hr Radius):
      * Garraf limestone
      * Gelida, and more, best limestone of Penedes, many 6s, even more 7s...
      * Aiguafreda, sandstone paradise of Grau dels Matxos
      * St Llorenç de Munt multipitch (La que Faltaba), and sport climbing

Montserrat Cara Norte:
      * La Punsola en Cavall Bernat
      * Fraguel Rock en Aeri 
      * Valentin Casanovas en Aeri
      * Sanchez Martinez en Pared de Diables
      * Cade en Agulla del Centenar, Frares

Montserrat Sant Benet

Montserrat Cara Sur:
      * la Desdentegada sport and again
      * la Rush and again

      * la BuscaBrega
      * el Vianant and again
      * Sprint Final
      * Lourdes

Heading North:
- Montgrony and again in Ripolles
- Coronas
- Gran Fajol in Ripolles

- Riugreixer close to Berga

- Pedraforca, closest "mountain" to Barcelona 

- Narieda, Alt Urgell, multipitch

- Col de Nargo, sport climbing in Alt Urgell
- Pared Bucolica, Obaga Negra, multipitch and sport in Alt Urgell
- Perles, sport climbing
- Tres Ponts, sport climbing and again

- Vilanova de Meiá in Montsec
- Cubells
- Camarasa the beautiful
- Raco del Segre
- Ager sport climbing

- Terradets in Montsec
- Bruixes
- Collegats
- St Llorenç de Montgai
- Os de Balaguer
- Ager

- Montrebei, Pared de Cataluna - Diedro Gris, the most serious and engaged multipitch in pre-Pyrennees

Pyrennees:
- Val de Boi, Cavallers sport climbing, and more on African Wall
- Ventosa
- Aiguestortes/Capucin Deja-Vu

Heading South:
- La Mussara and Montsant
- La Mussara again and Vilaplana de Prades

- Arboli
- Siurana and again
- Margalef

- la Riba
- Raco de Misa
- Masriudoms

In Aragon:
- Mallos de Riglos multipitch
- Rodellar and again and again

Other Spain:
- Sella, Costa Blanca, close to Alicante
- Chulilla
- La Pedriza, Madrid
- Patones, Madrid
- Naranjo de Bulness, Picos de Europa

SKIING
- Formigal (ski resort, Aragonian Pyrenees)


Here is the list of various useful climbing links for Cataluña and Spain:

Climbing sites- good intro to Cataluna climbing in English with pictures here but also under development new project by Par, ClimbInSpain
- Desnivel - the best climbing journal in Spain
- MadTeam - general, forum
- Escalador - general, forum
- Rocsandpics - general
- Ressenyes - Cataluña summary
- Desnivel topos for various regions
- CaraNorte - more general, forums, piar
- OnaClimb - good selection of info on Cataluña and Spain
- FEEC - gov't agency for Cataluña, refugios page, also forums available (catalan)
- Kpujo - Montserrat topos, forum, and even a webcam from the Monestary
- Amador - has copies of Costa Brava and other topos in "otras zonas de escalada"
- Coronn has info in English on El Chorro and Prades
- Centellas access blog
- Alt Urgell blog
- Col de Nargo blog
- Gelida topos (easy right) and the harder left side
- St Llorenc del Munt topos
- Pared de Cataluna and other topos

- Climbat - bouldering gym, Barcelona
- Freebloc - bouldering gym, Barcelona
- Fess - bouldering gym, Barcelona

Transportation
- transportation in Barcelona TMB- train FGC, Barcelona cercanias and RENFE
- bus from Barcelona to alrededores Alsea
- bus service Andorra-Barcelona
Other
- Weather MeteoRed
- Weather Cataluña- Shoe resoling, Barcelona