Podgrad (Brseč-Wall)
Situated 50m below Brseč this 50m high wall offers many different sorts of climbing. Everything is there, from some easier classic lines to routes in overhanging red rock. Harsh small pockets and fine structured rock is mixing up with demanding cracks. Sloping rock base!
Access
Turn right immediately behind the church, walk through a small private wine yard (Treat with respect! Keep the gate shut!) towards a rocky sloping grassland just below the village. Stay left! Before the terrain gets steeper, traverse to the left into a woody trench. Again, stay left and traverse to the right not before you are at the same level as the rock base and the routes of the right sector. To get to the left sector you must traverse further using a fixed rope (Attention! Alpine area). Maybe a better alternative to get there is to abseil down “Meister Horich” (2x25m). To get to this abseil point you must scramble down to the right instead of traversing into the woody trench (see topo). Look out for a small but prominent ball-shaped tree with a sling attached (do not abseil!). 8m to the right is a small ledge, from there you can climb down to the abseil point.
Routes: (from left to right)
- Meister Horich, 5b, 45m, Homage to Franz Horich
- Diver in Danger, 7a, 50m, Complicated crux, dream exit
- Flying Dutchman, 6a+, 55m, Beautiful classic line in compact rock
- Crimson Hawk, 6c+, 50m, Overhanging, pockets, genial. Demanding exit
- 111, 6c, 25m, Top pitch! Also accessible by “Wanderratz”
- Wanderratz, 5c+, 50m
- Ratroof, 6b+, 20m
- Once upon a time, 6a, 50m, Classical crack
- Feige/Sau, 6c+, 50m, Unique crack, not for everybody. Demanding
- Hope, 6c, 50m, Steep and always hard. Perfect
- Müllmania, 6c, 30m