Anniversary

Its mine and lucys 3 year anniversary yesterday (5th june) so we celibrated in style with a bottle of bubbley Courticy of Jason and clare Cheers guys. After the bubbley we continued the style with a bottle of the finest spanish wine at 1.10 euros it doesnt get better. We did try a "special" bottle of wine we got at 55 cents we didnt expect much and i think lucys comment linking it to left over ghurkin water was about right. Think were leave this for cooking. Lucy was amazing and cooked me a 3 course meal which we ate over looking the lake and enjoying the tranqulility,

 

Location wise i dont think we could have gotten better were up in perreniess mountains in a spot called port du lers its a mountain pass at 1500m high After following 20km of winding single track road hopeing not to meet anyone comming the other way webve ended up were parked up by a beautiful lake surounded by soaring mountains. Was pretty special to see a giant eagle circling above us then swooping down to catch Something then Launching back off up into the sky. The tranqulilty was only broken this morning by a heard of mountain cows trudging past the van many adorned with large cow bells, the time 6.30 what a treat for us

Its been nice to chill for a bit and not be pushing ourselfs hard every day and relaxing. Infact since we have moved on from rodellar we have climbed a total of 2 routes in 5 days its been wet and misserable, we still been having fun though we stayed at an amazing spot high up on the pass between Andorra and France which at 2700m high was pretty amazing and cold, very strange to go from stinking hot sun to minus temps in a few hours, there was still snow on the floor, managed to get some great views between the constant fog and low cloud Would be absoloutly perfect if it has been clear, Cheers to chris and kat for the heads up to check it out.

Take care all

Leaving rodellar

The sad time has come to finaly move on from rodellar and after being there for 54 days it did start to feel like home, but as with all things ending its the start of new things so to finnish it off here is the car park crew complete in all our glory cheers for the awsome time guys and see you all in a few weeks in Ceuse.

Were now heading through andorra to Ariege in france for a some more chilled climbing in the mountains then depending on how it is we will either stay here for a bit then head to southeast france or stay here for a bit, lots of topos and photos here if you fancy looking (its in french) http://cafma.free.fr

And finnishing off with the possing shot what a treat we are.

Birthdays

Hey all

Thanks to you all for mine and lucys birthday wishes. we both had amazing days.

for lucys we went down to the river and set up a slackline over it then spent all the day in 30+ degree sun falling and jumping in the river + having great fun with our friends. Does it get any better?

Tala last injection

Great news for tala Tomorrow is her last injection she is looking so much healthier compaired to when we started the course of injections so fingers crossed she is all sorted now,

She has also now started liking the water more and is swimming of her own accord after being pushed in a few times :)

Photos

Hey all a few photos from yesterdays wander in the valley,

All is amazing here its really starting to feel like home we have a large group of friends in the car park here so every evening is great to sit around chatting and chilling, ive just met a checz guy called jurkan whi plays chess real well so we have played a bit and looks like will be playing a fair bit now which is cool.

We have now been in rodellar for 37 days which is crazy as it seems like only yesterday that we have arrived here and there is still so much more to be climbed and explored, amazing deffinatly my favourit place by far,

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes i had a awsome day we went climbing in day. then lucy cooked me a nice birthday meal. then we went to the climbing refuge bar and chatted away the night brilliant day thanks to all for making it like that for me.

anywho heres the photos

Snake

WE have seen lots of weird lizards and some small water snakes since we have been in spain but yesterday was amazing on the way back from taking photos in the valley with tala i stumbled accross these 2 snakes playing on the main path through the valley from the village, not sure what they are a prize of a high five to whoever figures it out :)

Project sent

Hey all

I just sent my project for my first 7c+

Had another 3 goes on monday which all ended in a fall from the last hard move the same as before, one of these came agonisingly close when i caught the last hold then my feet both came off and i couldnt hold it and fell, i knew then that i could do it, but also that i needed to step back and have a few days climbing other things.

Today i was going to have a onsighting day but managed to pull a lump of rock off a route the size of 5 bricks and it shook me up a bit so wasnt feeling super good for the onsighting, so decided to have a play on Via viciosa.

I put the quick draws in and it went first time today my 9th attempt in total, was so happy it felt really controled and dare i say easy this time, so stoked, on to El delphin next another 7c+ up the underside of a huge archway, its amazing. photos to come soon.