Photos by kalcario

Both this route and Steelworker 5.12c to its right are probably the best routes for their grades in the Red, although there are about 10 12c's at the Red that are brilliant

SoCal stalwart Mike Waugh flashing yet another great 12c bucket haul at the Red, Mike is 40 something and on sights 12c regularly...

Described in the guidebook as the easiest route in the Madness cave, rumor has it that this may no longer be true due to things breaking off...

Both this route and Femme Blanche 13c to the right are sparsely bolted

Former LA Rockreation guru Bruce Anderson grappling typical Spanish "chorreras" on the island of Majorca.

Linda and Irene on one of the few non-overhanging 12a's at Rodellar

Way overhyped in the Rockfax guide (as is the whole area) but still good are these routes on Verdonesque stone just before you trudge up the hill to go to Lourdes

On the left side of the Berlin Wall, only 5 bolts I think...steep and thin

Between Rosanna and Blanche Fesse is this bouldery finger tweaker on the Sector Cascade

Northern California legend Ken Ariza contemplates the moves on this Sec. Cascade classic

Just right of Privelege du Serpent, it was raining when I took this...

Rodellar has an excellent warmup crag called the Camino, routes from 10b to 12b before moving on to taller and steeper things

The right side of the Gran Boveda at Rodellar has 2 or 3 must do routes, among them L'any Que ve Tambe 5.12d (high climber) and Argo 8a

The routes are up to 120' long like the center line of Coliseum 8a, considered by locals as the best route at Rodellar, and all involve vigorous tufa wrestling

Asturiano hardman Jesus Wensell at the recently developed Planet X crag near Oviedo, this 45 meter endurofest diagonals through the cathedral like overhangs up and right. Spain's 3rd 9a, called Especie Olivada en el Tiempo, starts just right of the belayer. Downrated to 8c+ recently by Ramonet...

What you see when you're belaying. Think bouldering will get you in shape for this? You best think again..

Climbers visible at the base just right of center, there are 25 or so routes on this sector, all brilliant, and the crag itself is 3 miles long

The mother of all tufa routes, Lourdes is much longer than what you can see in this picture, over 100 feet and gets steeper and steeper the higher you go. 30+ foot fall at the crux

Right of Lourdes are some good 11's and 12's, allowing both a warm up for harder routes and a cool down from the 1 hour hike (not as bad as Ceuse) through train tunnels and bridges and up a steep hill.

From 1996 or so, seldom repeated (or even hiked up to) due to lack of capable/motivated SoCal climbers...