
Every Christmas time Dalmatia is covered with climbers from all over the world. Nothing new, we would say, georges sunny days, very nice climbing areas, great conditions – why not!!!
These days French Ase Quentin Chastagnier with his girlfriend visits our climbing areas and, as usual, he is thirlled with our locations like Trogir, Marjan and others.
He has been visiting Paklenica as well and he repeated famous Manolo's Ill Maratonetta 8b+ after which he went further south, to Trogir. On the big face he managed to do first repetition of ALCATRAZ 8b+, 45 metres long blind wall for which we were waiting about 5 years for FA which was done by Ivan Lisica 2011. Also he climbed Na rubu pameti, 7c.
Marjan was a bit relaxing day for him and beside many easy routes he did Marulianus 7c/c+ onsight.
We expect some more news from French machine!
August brings a lot of news from deep water solo, specially from Ciovo area. Some great lines have been repeated and some new as well.
Victor and Adrian Bauch, brothers from Frankenjura have repeated many nice lines up to 7c, including Ciovo benchmarks Psihobloc and Parabolica, two classic 7c routes. Congrat guys!
Klemen Becan, Slovenian Pro climber, who is visiting Dalmatia, went to Ciovo and he managed to repeat some old and send some new lines. Lokalac 7b+, Psihobloc 7c and some other routes were repeated. Most significant ascent came from project line in the middle of Granit sector. Klemen managed to send the hardest route at Ciovo, previous project line 15 metres high, Psihoterapija 7c+ and tried some other, possible 8a, but had to leave something for next visit.
Klemen was very psyched for deep water solo and he adopted really fast. He is coming back for sure and we will prepare some crazy lines for this guy.
We have first news from this season psicobloc in Croatia and it comes from Dalmatian region, off course. We talk about Ciovo island, location with 12 sectors and more than 150 routes and it represents the best local deep water area with reason.
Anyway, we have two new ascents, both done by Leon Diependaele from Holland
1.Rocky vs Rock, 7b, 15m, Sektor Big
2.Student Mix, 7c, 9m, Sektor Granit
Well done!