Well, its February already time is flying down here.  We have been climbing in Spain ever since October and have been lucky with mostly good weather.  Taking advantage of the good conditions I managed to get my sport climbing game back and dispatched 5 8c+'s and a few 8c's and 8b+'s in a month and a half, all classic!  Isaac left in December and it was Dave and myself for about a month and now some new faces have joined the crew, chad greedy and Nalle Hukkataival.  Well be set up here for another couple months to climb in the classic areas Oliana and Margalef.  A muerte!! a tough program!  We've been able to climb a few routes, one about a week ago stands out, a Markus Bock route in Oliana called Duele De Realidad 8c+.  The route is short, about 15 meters, especially in comparison to the massive wall that is Oliana. The crux is more or less a hard boulder problem on few undercuts and a couple crimps ending with a jump to a massive jug, after its only about 7b+ to the top.  Nalle managed the 2nd ascent and a few days after, only after refining some ninja beta into something more straight forward I followed up with the 3rd.  The psyche is high and the plans are nice.  After spain, we'll head to Ticino for some bouldering and i can certainly say I'm more than excited...  Its been a while! 

Check out the Spanish photo album in the Photo gallery for a couple of photos to go with this blog.