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Photo @ Tedis cave in the left part of Mišja peč, home to some of the Slovenias hardest sport climbing routes: Vicious circle (9a+/b), Sanjski par extension (9a), mythical Za staro kolo in majhnega psa (8c+) and Talk is cheap (8c) Jakub Konečny, 19 years old climber from Czech Republic, had a really good qualifying round in the lead qualifications of World cup in Kranj this

Photo @ Martin Wagner in La super Nera (8c) in Baratro Sendtember in Istria! With good climbing conditions also hard routes go down one by another. Yesterday, German Martin Wagner made a first ascent of a new combination in Baratro. He started in La Supercanna (8b+), did its hardest boulder in the middle of the route and before the rest he continued to the right into the

Luka Biščak crushes another 8c, this time Klemen Bečans endurance masterpiece named Osapska pošast in the big cave of Osp. Luka is not unknown rising star but more like living legend climbing hard routes in Istria for more than 20 years in a row. Huge congrats for that kind of motivation! In Glinščica or Val Rosandra Marko Zadravec, a climber from Ljubljana with also more than

Photo @ Vera Gussetti in Masochismo (8b) in Baratro Hmmm, where to start? After last week’s ascent of Masochismo (8b) in Baratro by Vera Gussetti, she didn't go on holidays, but came back and fired as well Violenza carnale (8a). In the same crag young Ajda Lovše clipped the chains of her first route in the 8th grade, Placcoman. On the boy’s side, Jaka Šprah succeeded in one of

Great news is coming from Osp, more specific from Mišja peč. After many years of struggling, changing the parking places, problems with the landowners, the climbers are getting a new modern parking place for about 50 cars just under the wall of Mišja peč. This is the same place where it used to be the first Mišja pečs parking place many years ago. Finally, the landowners,

Photo @ the big cave of Osp The summer heat is fully on with the temps over 35 degrees Celsius almost every day and it looks like it will stay like this for at least another week or so. But some climbers just don't lose the motivation and they keep fighting also in these tremendous tropical conditions. A real working-class hero, one of the best orthopaedic surgeons in

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