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Gogo in Snejkuljčica (8b) in Kamena vrata @ Photo by Anja Bečan In Kamena vrata Klemen Bečan cleaned the route he had opened 2 years ago. Soon after Gogo - Goran Matika did the first ascent of it - Hollywood, beautiful 27 meters vertical wall with the grade of 7b. It is located first to the left of Snejkuljčica, another Klemen Becan's 8b. In Istarske toplice in

Stefan Bednar from Slovakia came here for the weekend and already first day third try finished his late spring project, Martin Krpan - the 9a endurance testpiece in the right part of Mišja peč. This is Stefan's second 9a after Sanjski par extension this spring. Bravo! On Sunday he easily clipped the chains of Millenium, the long 8b+! Already on Thursday Jernej Kruder walked through Histerija,

Benjamin Marjanovič in Osapska pošast (8c) in the big cave of Osp @ Photo by Žan Kuralt After some rain this night and in the morning, the sun came out with the company of some fresh wind from the north-east! The weather forecast for next days is just astonishing, sun and wind, around 10 degrees in the morning and 15 during the day. Awesome conditions for

Some news from climbing in Istria! In Mišja peč young Slovenian competitors did their personal best in onsighting! 14 years old Vita Lukan onsighted Chiquita 8a and 17 years old Igor Primc onsighted Giljotina 8a! Well done youngsters! The future relies on you. Also in Mišja peč, Jakob Šparovec fired his first 8b+ ever, the long and beautiful classic called Kaj ti je deklica. Bravo Jakob! Gianfranco Dušič

Gogo in Bitka 8b in the big cave of Osp @Photo by Luka Tambača Members of Slovenian junior climbing team, Tim Unuk and Martin Bergant, were crushing in Mišja peč again. Tim Unuk climbed Vizija 8c on his sixth try. Chain reaction followed and just couple of minutes later Martin Bergant clipped the chains of his first 8c, Vizija as well. The same day he did

Gianfranco Dušič from Rijeka (Croatia) on Thursday climbed his first 8c ever in the big cave of Osp. He fired 55-meter long endurance testpiece Osapska pošast on his third try. The first part (7c) of Osapska pošast (aka the monster of Osp) was bolted long time ago by Jure Bobnar, then Klemen Bečan showed up in the cave, saw this project and extended it for

In the last week the weather was so-so. It started with the tropical heat and humidity followed by perfect conditions with the sun and burja (strong and cold wind from the north-east). Karies, the 8a+ in the sector behind the village of Osp was fur sure the route of the week. :D It was redpointed on the 3rd try of the day by only 12-years old

Klemen above the lake in the big cave of Osp @ Photo by Luka Fonda We have prepared you an interesting 5 minute interview with one of the Slovenia’s best rock climbers ever – Klemen Bečan. He is famous in the world of climbing as the first Slovenian male competitor who won in lead World cup competition, the first to onsight 8b, 8b+, 8c and 8c+

With good weather conditions also hard ascents came immediately. In the first days of this week we noticed some impressive ascents all over Istria. For the weekend young Jaka Šprah from Ljubljana redpointed his 3rd 8b ever, Lahko noč Irena in Mišja peč. In Baratro Klemen Kejžar sent Sicario di sanguinario, historical 8c which was done this summer as well by strong climbing couple from the Dolomites:

The autumn season for climbing in Istria began! Friday and Saturday was raining a bit, temps drop down significantly and the cold wind from north started to blow, so this week we expect beautiful weather and perfect conditions for climbing in our favorite climbing areas. Yesterday there were already many climbers in Osp, the camping is getting crowded, the grapes in vineyards are being picked, autumn