Rock climbing season continues….after some wonderful days in Buoux, were I spent the Easter fest with a couple of good friends, I continued my way more to the south, direction Spain, Margalef.
I was climbing there with Mike Fuselier and Victor Estrangin. As usual, Mike made us laughing during the whole week, he could start a second career as a comedian.
I already spent three week’s during last spring in Margalef and I felt in love with this place….fot this trip, Mike and me, we’ve had a clear objectiv: Era Vella, 9a.
Directly we tried to climb in this route, which was kind of a desaster during the first day. We were jumping from quickdraw to quickdraw, unable to climb more then a couple of moves…
The route is more then 50 meters long, so our bilan after day one was definitely not as such as good as we were hoping.
After a good restday we continued to try hard and the progression was huge. We found all the little tricks and personal betas we needed, fantastic!
Last day, Mike was super close to send…. For myself, the more and more I was climbing in the route, the more I was loosing my skin in the ‘Margalef-pockets’ and blood was running out of my fingers. I had to climb with full taped fingers, which is not really pleasant.
But I’m super positive and optimistic! I spent a fantastic week in a magic palce, I was figering out all my personal betas and I was sharing all these experiences of trying really hard with Mike. In my eyes, this is one of the richest thing in climbing…
History to continue….;-)