Tamara Zulim reports on Summer 2009 Croatian season

I had a very exhausting summer working in a turistic agency so I combined climbing indoor and outdoor from June till September. Outdoors, I climbed mostly in our local, nearest summer crag, Markezina greda.

This is how I felt in the afternoones driving directly from work to Markezina so I could catch a couple of hours to work on my projects J

I managed to send routes from 7c to 8a+ (these pictures were taken in some of them) in different crags; from Markezina Greda ....

Kacot 7c+

  .... to Mišija Peč.

Matamoros 7c

That hot and humid day, we were the only freaks climbing in Mišija...

Every now and then I was able to steal a day or two to go climbing somewhere out of Split area.

In Paklenica I sent Winnetou 8a on my second go.

  Climbing indoor, I managed to stay in a relatively good shape so I won the Croatian Bouldering Championship in September. After that I got a bit sick and tired of climbing, mostly bymyself, in the gym so I climbed only outside with my friends. I was back on Markezina Greda with new projects on my mind ....

and sent one of the best lines there, Hipnoza 8a+

Now, when the summer is over, conditions have changed so I am concentrating on new challenges, new crags, new routes and boulders ...