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Monthly Archives: April 2015

Omis – into the Pirate Stronghold

April 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Omis lies a couple of hours south of Paklenica, and 20km south of Split. The river Cetina has carved a deep gorge through rock barriers, into the sea, making the […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Paklenica – Anica Kuk

April 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment
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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Karin – Great location; shame about the grades!

April 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment
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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Cragging in the Paklenica gorge

April 25, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

The climbing really is outstanding – just wish they’d bump up the grades a bit!

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

The convoy hits town

April 25, 2015by Dominic 1 Comment

Just as we’d settled into our seaside paradise, the convoy caught up with us 🙂 Mike, Geoff, Alf and Jean rolled into the campsite more or less as the rain […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

More multi pitch adventure – then rain

April 25, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We figured we’d avoid the polish in the main gorge by doing one of the multi pitch routes. Sure enough, despite being only 5 minutes from the car, ### was […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Paklenica

April 16, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Paklenica National Park has the lucky juxtaposition of a stunning limestone gorge just a couple of miles from the Dalmatian coast. There are about 500 routes, from single pitch sports […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Plitvice Lakes National Park

April 16, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

In line with a new found determination to try and take more rest days, we headed for a couple of days R and R at Plitvice Lakes National Park. Any […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Kompanj and into Croatia

April 16, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We fancied a change of scene from Osp so headed south over the border into Croatia. There has been a lot of development around the town of Buzet, with half […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Dad’s cabs and a trip to Venice

April 13, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

The end of the kids’ trip came around all too soon, so I had a day playing taxi driver to not one but two airports in Venice. Having got Jake […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia

Osp Luknja

April 13, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

This is the last of the Osp crags and another complete contrast. Tucked away at the bottom of the Big Wall sector is an amazing stalactite filled cave, which even […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia

Osp Velika Stena – multi pitch adventure!

April 12, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Dominating the village of Osp, and the “little” crags of Banje and Babna where we climbed earlier in the week, is Velika Stena – the Big Wall. Towering on the […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia

8a/+ for Jake – Zadnja Skusnjava at Osp

April 12, 2015by Dominic 1 Comment

A real bonus for Jake of staying in the same place for a week, and within walking distance of some world class climbing, is that it made a “project” approach […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia, Uncategorized

Crni Kal

April 10, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

The third major crag near Osp is Crni Kal – a different proposition from either the Osp village crags or Misja Pec, it stretches for a couple of km along […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia

Misja Pec

April 8, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Misja Pec lies 500m up the road from Osp, and like its big brother, was also formed by the collapse of an underground cave system in the Karst escarpment, many […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia

Karst country

April 8, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

The landscape is dominated by the Karst escarpment, which runs for over 50km from Italy through Slovenia and into Croatia. In the picture below you can see the village of […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia

Osp

April 8, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Osp is a tiny village, a few km over the Italian border into Slovenia. Home to a great campsite, Camping Vovk, and dominated by the towering crags behind, this is […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia, Uncategorized

Buzet

April 8, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Half an hour south of Osp, over the border into Croatia, lies Buzet, the latest mega crag to be developed in these parts. Actually a series of crags set in […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Back on the road

April 3, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Gales forecast across Britain, and Tashy is home from Bristol, so after a couple of weeks of pit stop we’re heading south again. It’s a 15 hour drive to Slovenia, […]

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Eastern Europe, Slovenia

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