Author: Klemen Vodlan

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!

Klemen Vodlan (the editor of this page) managed to succeed in the 55 meters long and more than 30 meters overhanging beauty called Bitka s stalaktiti in the big cave of Osp.

The Bečan family (Anja and Klemen) bolted some new high quality routes in Kamena vrata. The list: Bonsai 8b Zvuči teško 8b Snakeguljičica 8b Hit poletja 7b Cirkus 6b All the routes are fully three-star lines and are waiting for new repeats. You're all welcome!

One of the most experienced and strongest climbers from the Italian region of Padova, Luigi Biloro, after just a couple of tries last year and a couple of tries this year managed to redpoint Osapska pošast, 8c in the Osp cave. His redpoint go was really interesting because of being on a no-hands rest after all the cruxes about 40 meters up high, he broke the

Andrea Padovan managed the first repeat of Sbisigando con l'orango 8b+ in sector Mano di fatima in the classic Trieste climbing area called Napoleonica. The route was first redpointed a couple years ago by his friend Gabriele Sbisighin.

Klemen Bečan managed the hardest FA in the Osp cave, the route now called Waterworld, graded 9a with its 55 meters length and more than 30 meters of overhang. A true masterpiece! The route consists of two parts: in the first 20 meter part, which is totally horizontal and is done in 30 moves you can find 2 boulder problems around FB7c and the second

Goran Matika aka Gogo from Pazin, Croatia, did the first repeat of Austrians Bernie Fiedler's Forty feed woman, a left variation of Hard sun in Kompanj. First graded 8b+, Gogo considers it more as a normal 8b.

The young Croatian, 16 year-old Borna Čujić, the son of famous Croatian alpinist Boris Čujić, did his first 8c and became the second Croatian after Marko Rožman to do that. The route is called Strelovod and consists in the first part of a hard traverse from Martin Krpan and ends in Marjetica. Definitely one of the most repeated 8c's in Mišja peč. Good job Borna! Keep

The legend of Slovenian bouldering Urh Čehovin accompanied with the young power Urban Gros did the first two ascents on Klemen Vodlan's project on a new really nice bouldering area just left from the church in Osp. The boulder is called Super gazoza and it varies around 7c+/8a. It involves around 5 hard moves on heinous edges and sidecrimps. It has a perfect landing and about