For all of you suffering from the late winter and snow that seems to have attacked at least big parts of europe, here comes some sunny greetings from Spain (from left: Patxi, Me, Josh, Irati, Daila, Chris).
Ok, it's not super warm exactly right now but it has been. Today we've been in Santa Linya and the wind made the place into a big sandstorm. We were not 100% psyched exept Patxi who did like 6 tries in Santa Linya 8c+... and Josh was filming a dose for the upcoming Dosage movie. Allright, I did at least 1 route so I was, as we say, contento.

Patxi Usobiaga and Josh Lowell at work.

But before this nothern breeze came in it's been really warm. Climbing in Rodellar and most of all, Alquezar. I put my shit together and went on working (redpointing that is) a route I'd wanted for some time now. After all this on-sighting I felt it was time to sacrifice some energy into ONE route. And it payed of. The biggest problem was to find belayers as Alquezar sort of is out of season for the moment, everybody wanted to be in Rodellar (I don't blame them). Thanks to Coach, Sergio, Joao, the Italian couple (Rafaela and her boyfriend with an eaven more typical Italian name I can't remember...), the two spanish men, Allie... I knew I had little time left to do it as the temperature kept on rising. But then came some rain and the day after had the best conditions so far on the route, it was time to boogie (or at least get really pumped): El Templo Del Café, 9a -45 meter of roofclimbing. Do I need to mention I did it a muerte style?

Trying to keep it together for the big fiesta.

Luckyly I had some partytrix hidden up my sleeve...

Just looking at it makes me tired... so I tried not to look at it too much and save some juice for the climbing part. But man, it's beautiful!

Alquezar has it all, kicking back on a summerlike restday at Sergios refugio.


But when you've been lucky in your life is has to be followed buy some miseria (at least in my case): my car has to be repaired, the bolts I ordered from Petzl are still not here and I need to be in Morocco on friday at the latest. It's been hollidays here so all business has been down. Next stop climbing, bolting, shooting, family and music in Morocco. But how do I get there without a car and how to bolt without bolts? I guess I'll just hang out in this hammock and let eveything sort itself out...