Author: Klemen Vodlan

Last weekend in the Big cave of Osp showed up Anže Varga who easily onsighted the first part of Active discharge which is graded 8a. He tried to onsight as well the extension graded 8b+ and in fact got quite close on it. Link to his blog. Also Jakob Bizjak onsighted the first part of Active discharge, with which he claimed his first onsight of the

Gašper Pintar - Pinti did a one day visit to Baratro on 2nd September where he managed to redpoint Il musico 8b. Week after he visited Mišja peč and did Gorenjski šnops, 8b as well. Conditons were both times far from prime but strong Pinti couldn't refuse to clip the chain on both of them. What will happen when the best season stars? :) Link to his blog

Last year directly after legendary Johanov memorial competition in the Big wall of Osp, Izidor Zupan injured his knee while almost redpointing Working class hero, a 30 meter beast in the Osp Big cave. He returned this year for a weekend with Jernej Kruder. First day Jernej fell from last holds of Helihopter v omaki (8b) on his onsight attempt. Next day both Izi and Jernej

Rok Blagus crashed La supercanna 8b+ in Baratro. A young and powerful climber from Trieste, Luca Bacer, did it too, as well as Gianfranco Dušić from Croatia. It looks like this is THE Baratro route of the year 2014. Gianfranco is in full shape at the moment, he also repeated Baratro classics like Hercules 8b and Cliffhanger 8a+.

Strong forces from Vipava valley, Jure Piršič and Marko Šturm joined this summer to repeat the endurance monsters in the Osp cave. Marko managed to battle Bitka s stalaktiti 8b, while Jure repeated Bitka as well and Active discarge 8b+. On to the next ones ;)

Famous boulderer Jernej Kruder showed up in Baratro just for a relax session before the World Championship in Munich 2014 and in one afternoon he managed to (despite the ''lack'' of endurance): - redpoint for warm up of Dubbio finale 8a+ - redpoint of Holokaust 8b+ (which he tried once briefly 8 years ago) and then he almost flashed the upper part which is more endurance style

Gabriele Sbisighin has sent the "long standing" project of Dino Šturman in the cave of Baratro. For sure it is considered a hard 8c with a double dyno in the lower part and then endurance for another 30 meters. Impressive!

Katarina, one of the most beautiful climbing coaches ever, managed to tick her second hardest ascent in her life

In the Osp big wall the new multipitch Bala Bala was bolted and first free climbed by Klemen Bečan. The route is 180 meters long and all the time very overhanging. It starts the same as the first part of Osapska pošast and then continues left to join Waterworld. The hardest is the first pitch, a 55 meters 8b overhang with some awesome moves on

Domen Škofic did the first repeat of Klemen Bečan's masterpiece Waterworld, a 55 meters long and really steep 9a in the big Osp cave. For success he needed a little more than 10 tries, he confirmed the grade and said that it is his second hardest 9a (after Sanjski par in Mišja peč) he did. Keep on being strong Domen!