Pont Cabradís

Pre-Pyrenean landscape

Ernst and Ulli are friends of mine. They are, by the way, the persons most responsible for me living in Catalonia, and besides own a beautiful finca in the Solsona district, in a village called Guixers. When they bought the estate, more than 10 years ago, it wasn't more than some flee-infected ruins full of goat feces, but during the years, the two of them have made a tremendous effort which transformed the finca into what it is today. There they live on about 1300m above sea level, in the middle of nowhere, and I believe to remember, that once their nearest neighbour was mentioned to live several kilometres distant. Surrounding their place, there are mountains, too, for Guixers lies in the heart of the Pre-Pyrenees. You cannot find the really high mountains there, but it's still a quite mountainous landscape. Last weekend, Lisa and me visited Ernst and we didn't let slip away the opportunity to go on a hike there...
 click here to read

Camí de les Agulles

A he-goat looking at us

The other day I met with Xenia and Fermín and the three of us went to Montserrat in order to have a little hike in the Agulles area. Since them, too, have recently started climbing, I thought it was interesting to bring a book with me, I had acquired some weeks before. It's a guide of the existing climbing routes in that very zone, each with a description and a photography. At the end we didn't do much hiking, but instead went, book in hand, from one rock needle to another, eagerly searching for belays in the walls and comparing the book's descriptions with whatever we actually saw. Fun it was.

After a while of that we had picked out several routes we were considering worth trying, and hopefully someday will do so. Despite the fact that this was not what we actually had come for, it turned out to be a quite entertaining activity too.

click here to read