Big Balls, Knots, Limestone & Belaying

We're throwing caution to the wind ! Visited a couple of climbing shops today & bought the guide to 'Hruboskalsko'. You've heard of Eastern European climbing & no iron allowed - well we've found the place for you ! Start chopping your ropes into slings with large knots & use as protection between the large fixed iron rings (5m spacings). Getting scared ! M&J are so petrified that we've sunk to $4 AUD bottles of Chardonnay.


Source: http://www.hruboskalsko.cz/index.asp

Hruboskalsko is about 90 minutes north-east of Praha by car. We've start to put a few feelers out in Praha land for people who'd like to learn to climb that have a large car to cart us to the locations.

The other limestone location we've found that is only about 1 hour by public transport is 'Srbsko'. Sport climbing area that we intend visiting soon. We'll probably visit the quarry looking area called 'Alkazar' (http://www.czechclimbing.com/pruvodcx.php?key=83) in the next couple of weekends when it's not raining.

Dobrou noc (goodnight). M.