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Slovenia: Climbing to Podraška Tura

Our motorcycling weekend continued (Day 1), but for today, Nada and me had slightly different plans. We decided to go climbing. Nada chose a route called "Smer skozi okno - Route through the window", V/III, 120 m, that we prolonged to Nikolajeva smer, IV/II-III, 375 m. The heavy pitches were very nice and we were advancing as expected and after 4 hours we were standing on top of Podraška Tura. We continued to Gradiška Tura and descended via hiking rote back to our motorbikes. After the hydration, our motorbikes took us back home.

 

Church of St. Miklav (local name for St. Nicholas) lies on the southern slopes of Nanos mountain. The church was built at the beginning of the 17th century, which can be seen from the year 1608 carved into the Late Gothic stone entrance. Due to its remoteness it was exposed to thefts, destruction and gradual decay. The church was last renovated between 1991 and 1993.

  

Our maps for climbing.

 

The first pitch took us to the natural window, where also the name of the route comes from.

 

Straight through the window.

 

Preparing for the hardest part.

 

In the chimney, V-.

 

We both made it through the difficulties.

 

We continued on less difficult part, where we continued on Nikolajeva smer, named after a church that we saw from above.

 

We had one more detail and then we reached the top of Podraška Tura.

Nada and Tuši.

We continued to Gradiška Tura.

Approaching the 793 m high summit.

The faces of Gradiška Tura and Podraška Tura have the best-known Alpine routes, which are great for climbing even in the middle of winter.

The summit offers amazing views to Vipava valley.

We were thirsty, so we left the summit and headed to the valley.

Climbing to Podraška Tura.

2 day motorbike trip

Geocaches found (all received a visit by trackable items "OceantagZ", TB5NYN3 and "Travel Firefighter", TB65TH2):
- Sv. Miklav, GC3A0WA
- GRADIŠKA TURA 793m, GC4T9EX, where I dropped of trackable item "OceantagZ", TB5NYN3