Ribarica-"The tufa sector"

… Once it became clear that materials for equipping the routes over Ribaritsa will be bought by BFCA, we did some cleaning of the rocks. It turned out that there are more stones to be pushed down from over the routes than on themselves. Of course, we decided to clean the most maniac lines – where the rock has formed into the biggest tufas. The result was not according to our expectations for hard stuff but as a start it was ok – one route 7a+ which we called “Rebraritsa” and one 7b+ “Otbor kalfi”.
During our second “campaign” things started to get rough. We fixed a rope in the right part of the sector оn the base of which there is a small cave. From the beginning we decided that all routes will be climbed from down-up so there are no mistakes with the placing of the bolts. We hung out there for nearly 3 hours to clean everything that is potentially dangerous and another 2 hours waited for Mincho to climb and mark. Because of the strongly overhanging first part, the usage of many sky hooks was inevitable, which later gave the name of the route “Sky cuckoo” with a preliminary grade of 7c+/8a.
Here are some photos of both days and several new sectors, which we found in the same area:

editor:Milena Georgieva