Gene still goes climbing

About 3 years ago I wrote my last post. I didn't stop climbing, just stop writing. I found my motto, found a way and changed from the little scared bunny that hardly would try to lead to a less scared one, who has trad climbed, crossed glaciers, slept alone up in the mountains and explore...

Bear-y-5: a journey to 35 years old

This year is my 35th birthday, so I decided to celebrate it in a big way. While being intern at the hospital after my operation, I started wondering: how? what? when? The choice was obvious: adventure has my name, but all the other logistics were still an open question. It is hard to come with...

Surgery Anxiety

Climbing has stopped almost completely. Almost. I am climbing a mere 15% of my time, if so. I have been in general just spending my time, as much as I can, playing outdoors and exploring, figuring out who am I and discovering new hobbies and ways to be in the mountains. The final word was...

The helpless optimism of Spring: a compilation of solo hikes

(Suggestion: if you listen to music while reading, here is a playlist I would suggest) It all started this year with my last trip to Frankenjura. It seemed like my climbing season came to a (very) early end. Yet, somehow, it felt like I needed this "resting break", which seems a bit like an overstatement,...

Climbing in times of COVID-19 (I)

I am glad I took that last climbing day in El Chorro. It was the last trip in two months from now (and probably the last international one in the upcoming months). The situation during these Corona Virus times (COVID-19) has made climbing in some places almost impossible at the moment. I am lucky to...

One day in El Chorro

Every European sport climber have heard about climbing in "El Chorro". Not a surprise, knowing that Spain is the ultimate paradise for sport climbers and almost every single corner has a major crag for sport climbing! As I had one day free in Malaga, I would not let the opportunity pass by and searched for...

Embracing wilderness and loneliness

Life is a constant evolution. Always forward, the world will always keep spinning. And independently of how much we would like to travel back in time or to stop time, we cannot. My life is changing. So, to welcome it, I decided to do a solo trip to mountains (sadly only one month). What am...

Back in Costa Blanca

An improvised trip to Valencia two years ago (oh, gosh, two years! I was thinking I was there last year) showed me and Radek the huge potential of the limestone walls in the Valencia region. In love with the place, we decided to go back again this year. Unlike Catalunya, the popularity of the Valencia...

5 years later, back in Fontainebleau

I have been many years dreaming with this weekend: to be again climbing the boulders in Fontainebleau. Since the first time I was there, I fell in love with the climb in Bleau, and after two consecutive years going there, I had a very long break from the French playground. I have been bouldering in...