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Here are some photos of a quick 5 day trip I did in the fall of 2003.
Unforutnately I didn't get many pictures of Sean McColl and I climbing at Misja Pec
but there are some nice scenery shots.

As usual any photos here are available at a higher resolution.

Here's a shot of Sean sleeping at the Linate airport in Milan,
we arrived around 2am and we're waiting to pick up the rental car.
     

Here's the car.
     

Misja Pec is an amazing limestone cliff just outside of Osp.
Most of the quality routes here are 8a or above but there are
plenty of nice 7s as well.
                 

           

This was probably the best day of the trip in terms of just fun climbing.
Crna burja is this six pitch route on the Velika stena wall.
The pitches go 7b, 7c, 7b, 7c, 7a/b and 6c. It starts on the top
of this old fortress wall at the mouth of huge cave and you then
proceed to climb four pitches of steep limestone.
The last two pitches were a little less than vertical and a lttle sharp
but still very fun.

Here's a picture of the cave.
           

The route...
                 

Here are some pictures of the wall that you start on.
                 

Here's a picture from the fourth belay of a 70m rope just hanging in the air.
     

As you can imagine there was some nice scenery while we were climbing.
                 

Here's some shots of the valley from the top of the climb.
Note the Mediteranean and Trieste, Italy in the background.
           

Some pictures of Sean climbing etc...
It's hard to get good pictures when you are supposed to be belaying.
                             

                       

           

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