Author: Klemen Vodlan

The scenic climbing area above the gulf of Trieste named Costiera is closed permanently until 8th of April due to the maintenance work on a road above. Please, visit another crag, there are really many close by, wind protected and south oriented, perfect for the winter! Maybe you can try Aurisina, Napoleonica, Val Rosandra or even the world-wide known Osp and Mišja peč. They are all well

Warming up this Thursday in Mišja peč @photo by Klemen Bečan Until Saturday climbing conditions in Istria were perfect, sun and dry rocks motivated a lot of climbers to go to their favourite crags. Many nice and also hard routes were climbed almost everywhere. Let us mention some of the most remarkable ascents. Jernej Kruder climbed the multipitch Stara (8b+, 130m) in the big wall of Osp.

Photo @ Mišja peč in fog Last week was sunny with really high temps for this period and there were really just a few climbers hanging on the rocks. Anyways, Jakob Bizjak redpointed one of the longest routes in Mišja peč, Millennium (8b+). Particularly in this route, not long time ago one hold broke on its half, so it got for sure a bit harder than it

Photo @ The big wall of Osp Vražji Robert or »The evil Robert« is a multipitch 8b+ route in the big wall of Osp protected only by old pitons. From the first easy warm up pitch you get to a comfy ledge from which starts a super-steep dihedral graded 8b to a hanging belay from where follows another 7c+. Like this it was first ascended by

Benjamin Marjanovič in Doris (8a) in Costiera @ photo by Anej Kodele Interesting news come from Benjamin Marjanovič who climbed all the routes in Costiera, an old-school climbing area with amazing scenery above the gulf of Trieste. His last redpointed routes were Meglio di niente (7c) and Doris (8a). Just to mention, that Costiera is home of the first Istrian 8a, Santa Esmeralda. There are only

Photo @ Osp today The weather in the last days was not on the climber’s side. There were some windows of sun around new year, but as well a lot of rain, so many tufas were dripping. Now the rain stopped and the clouds are beginning to clear, the rocks are getting dry, and seems that it will be possible to climb normally again. From tomorrow

Photo @ Kompanj Dear ClimbIstria followers, climbers and all nice souls around, www.climbistria.com team wishes you all a Happy new year 2018! We wish you all a lot of nice days outside in our beloved crags, perfect conditions, big biceps, good skin and supportive belay buddies. 😊 Let's enjoy next year as it was our last, stay healthy, full of love, everything else will come by its own. See

Mina Markovič in Histerija (8c+) in Mišja peč @photo by Luka Fonda Yesterday, Martin Bergant fired his hardest route to date, Histerija (8c+) in Mišja peč. The king line in the central part of Mišja peč in between the famous warm-up climb Rodeo (7a) and the classic Ptičja perspektiva (7b, 8a+) was first climbed by Matej Sova back in 2004. It is around 35 meters long with the

Photo @ Osp and Mišja peč It was a sunny week and the weekend full of climbers on the rocks in Istria. Lots of routes were climbed, just to mention some of the hardest redpoints. Jaka Šprah sent Corrida (8c) in Mišja peč. This is the third 8c for a young climber from Ljubljana and his first from Mišja peč. Corrida is an extension of the famous

Photo @ yesterday from the parking of Kompanj Last week in Istria was full of sun, perfect conditions and climbers everywhere. An extreme number of beautiful routes were climbed, nice emotions were achieved, climbers had fun, … Just to name a few of the most remarkable ascents that we forgot in our last post. Austrian, more specific Tyrolean ex competitor Martina Harnisch explored Istria for a bit and