Author: Klemen Vodlan

Klemen Bečan deep water soloing in Stoja cave, close to Pula @ photo by Anja Bečan The summer is fully on! Many climbers from the area went on holidays in search of new nice spots and cooler temps around Europe. Some went on the seaside, to relax on the beach and in between also to jump in our beloved crags and smash something hard. Matjaž Zorko managed

Gabriele Gorobey Sbisi made a FA of an extension of famous warm up route Rototom (7a) in secret cave Skedenj close to Sežana in Slovenia, now named Rototom Sun Splash with a proposed grade of 8c. Bolted by Stefano Varnerin couple of years ago and named after famous reggae festival in Osoppo, Italy. After the 7a, you get a decent rest followed by hard boulder

Photo @ Fabio Mazzilis in La Supercanna (8b+) in Baratro Seems like Baratro is the crag to climb in Istria at the moment. All the routes are totally dry, it is not too hot, neither too cold, always with some fresh wind present. For the ones that don’t know Baratro. It is a secret summer crag above the gulf of Trieste with more then 50 routes in

Photo @ "Secret" crag of Baratro above Trieste Not many climbing news from Istria in the last days, but still some hats down routes were climbed here. Luca Bacer did the Sicario sanguinario (8c), a 30-meter long endurance route in the centre of the “cave” in Baratro. Also, Katarina Rus was there and she fired the last years masterpiece of Ciano, Zooropa for which she believes it

The summer is magic here in Osp, hot temperatures arrived, the cherries are growing full on and only the »summer« crags are visited more or less in the last days. The cave of Osp is for sure the top destination nowadays, followed by Buzetski kanjon (summer sector named Befana), Baratro, Skedenj, Brseč and so on. And what was climbed in these days? Boštjan Weingerl and Jaka Šprah both

Jernej Kruder in Water world (9a) in the big cave of Osp @ photo from his FB Two days ago, Jernej Kruder redpointed Water world (9a), the 55 meters long monster roof pitch, in the big cave of Osp. This is the 4th ascent of the route after Klemen Bečans FA and repeats by Domen Škofic and Sachi Amma. He found the new beta for the

Hard winter trainings paid off on warm cliffs of Istria. Brother and sister, Klemen and Katarina Kejžar executed once again in Val Rosandra, in sector Strapiombi delle Vergini. Klemen did a FA of a project named L'amuleto bolted by Ciano that shares the same start with Adelante (8a) and then goes straight up and had a proposed grade of 8b. His sister Katarina did her first 8b

photo @ Miha Hribar in Missing link (8b+) in Mišja peč Some days went by and extreme number of hard ascents were done on Istrian rocks. Jakob Bizjak had an amazing day in Mišja peč. First, he did super steep Talk is cheap (8c) and shortly after the long beauty Karizma (8b+). Wow! Another strong boulderer, Miha Hribar, tied himself on a rope after a long time and in

The highlight of this week is Matteo Menardi's ascent of Martin Krpan (9a), traverse route in the right part of Mišja peč. This was the fourth 9a for 19-years old Italian living in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dolomites. In Mišja peč as well, Slovenian Jakob Bizjak climbed Corrida (8c) and made one of the rare repeats of old school route with a balancy boulder in a slab named

Spring arrived, finally sunny weather, climbers are returning from their indoor gyms back outside on sunny rocks, even Team Colombia (Mar, Gabo and Rafa leyenda) got here and suffered the last three days in total un-tropical conditions. 😊 Anyways, since our last news, some water dripped in the tufas of Osp, so to mention a few of the ascents we have noticed in this last days. Only 13