1st repeat of Caveman’s playground in Istarske toplice
The Austrian climbing legend Gerhard Hoerhager managed to make the first repeat of steep Caveman's playground, the 8c+ in Hallelujah caves of Istarske toplice freed more than a year ago by Slovenian Klemen Bečan. For younger climbers who doesn't know Gerhard, just a couple of short info about him: He got famous already in the 80's while making first ascents on some of the first world's
Redpoints around Christmas in Mišja peč
Beautiful days around Christmas were just calling for hard redpoints in Mišja peč. Just to mention few of them: Gašper Pintar is in shape of his life. He showed us his finger streght and endurance in hard 8c, Popolni mrk. Tim Unuk redpointed another 8b classic in the central part of Mišja peč, long and technical Pikova dama. Anže Varga excecuted Marioneta, the short and artificial 8b
Predloka closed
New climbing area Predloka got closed just after a couple of months of existence. More then 20 routes bolted by Betka Galičič are now closed for climbing due to problems with people of village Loka and their famous bird Gugo. Climbing there is now totally forbidden, also the bolts will be removed ASAP. Bad news for climbing community :(
Hard redpoints this week in Mišja peč and around
It started on the weekend with the bad weather continuing with fully sunny week and also some sun appeared on Saturday while Sunday was shit :). Many hard redpoints were made during this week, just to mention few of them: - Anže Varga redpointed Missing link 8b+ and it's version Natural link 8c - Tim Unuk passed the endurance test of Mr. Big hand, 8b+ - Jakob Bizjak putted the
Gašper Pintar and Histerija, the 8c+ in Mišja peč
Today Gašper Pintar just after a couple of tries did the beautiful Histerija, the long 8c+ in the central part of Mišja peč. He looked so solid on it, we are just waiting what he will bring us next.
Shitty conditions & nice ascents in Mišja peč
This weekend we were totally covered with clouds, rain and humidity above 90%, for sure not the best for climbing. :) Anyways we got two nice ascents: Strong Slovakian climber Lukaš Petrilak that is currently studying in Ljubljana, made a quick repeat of steep and powerfull Talk is cheap, 8c in Mišja peč Young Croatian Borna Čujić repeated Lahko noč Irena, an ex 8b in Mišja peč as