Author: Klemen Vodlan

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

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

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 :(

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

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.

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

Just after finishing the competion season, Domen Škofic visited Mišja peč where he made a quick ascent of Popolni mrk, 8c. He tried Xaxid hostel as well and did it very quickly in two parts with one small rest. Now he is on his one month climbing holiday in Spain. VENGA A MUERTE! :)

We had already reported about French climbing couple from Grenoble, Quentin Chastagnier and Lea Philippon climbing in this region. This time we got news from them from classical Dvigrad. Quentin tried a bit Malvazija, but then decided to bolt a blank slab just right of it. Later he climbed the route and named it "What we gonna do with the drunken climber" and graded it

There were really prime conditions in the region these days. Climbers were all around and onsights and redpoints were falling down one after the other. Just to mention a few most important one's: - Janja Garnbret, junior World Champion, in two days in Mišja peč smashed first part of Chiquita (8a) onsight, flashed Smasara (8a) and Sonce v očeh (8a+) and afterwards redpointed Mrtvaški ples and Lahko

After two days of competiting on the last lead competion in series of World cup 2014 in Kranj, where he put up a great show winning quite superior, Adam Ondra came on Monday 17th November after long time back to one of his favourite crags - Mišja peč in Slovenia. That day he successed in Za staro kolo in majhnega psa, the 8c+ he tried years