Split Rock Climbing and Sports Climbing in Croatia

Rock Climbing around Split

There are over 600 sports routes around the Split areas including rock climbing on the islands of Hvar, Brac & Vis. All of these crags are limestone and are generally single pitch, though at Omis there are some bolted multi pitch climbing up to 300m long. Also at Bukovac Biokovo, in the mountains behind Makarskathere are bolted sports routes between 215 to 600m long. The rock climbing in this region is often in spectacular surroundings; such as the fantastic views from Trogir and Malacka; to the beach climbing on Hvar island at Suplja stina.

The crags around Split easily offer a good weeks worth of quality rock climbing. Split and Hvar Island are popular holiday resorts, making this an ideal area to include a few days climbing as part of your general holiday. Hvar Island also offers fantastic deep water soloing.

Generally it's ideal to rock climb in this area throughout the year at all of these crags, except at Kozjak in the summer and Markezina greda in the winter.



	Buy the new 2007 Edition of the Rock Climbing Guidebook for Croatia from our shop.
	This guidebook covers all the crags at Trogir, Split, Omis and Brela, plus the crags on the islands of Brac, Hvar and Vis.


	Rock Climbing areas around Split and Hvar Climbing areas are number with the details shown opposite

The above information has been extracted from the new 2007 edition sports climbing guide for Croatia, written by Boris Cujic. Buy this guidebook for Croatia from our shop.

No	Crag	Total No of routes	Number of Routes in Gade Range							Multi or Single Pitch
No	Crag	Total No of routes	Up to 4c	5a to 5+	6a to 6b	6b+ to 6c+	7a to 7b	7b+ to 7c+	Over 8a	Multi or Single Pitch
1	Trogir - Sveti Vid	31	0	2	3	6	6	8	6	Single
2	Malacka	13	2	2	2	4	3	0	0	Single
3	Kozjak	5	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	Both
4	Markezina greda	67	1	2	12	12	16	10	14	Both
5	Marjan	76	2	13	18	21	9	8	5	Single
6	Rupotine – Klis	18	0	1	1	5	4	4	3	Single
7	Omis	78	6	12	24	14	6	10	6	Both
8	Brela	68	8	17	21	14	7	1	0	Single
9	Vrisove glavice	17	1	4	7	0	0	0	5	Both
10	Bukovac Biokovo	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	Multi
11	Brac	59	7	21	12	10	5	2	2	Single
12	Hvar - Milna	14	0	2	7	3	2	0	0	Single
12	Hvar - Podstine	11	0	5	1	2	3	0	0	Single
14	Hvar - Stracine	16	4	4	5	3	0	0	0	Single
15	Hvar - Suplja stina	103	0	16	36	22	22	6	1	Single
16	Hvar - Velika Stiniva	45	1	26	0	5	7	1	5	Single
17	Vis - Crnjene stine	12	3	2	3	4	0	0	0	Both

Split Logistics

Due to the ferry times and poor state of the roads at Hvar, it is not possible to be based in Split and then do a days climbing on Hvar. However there are many Pansions (which offer B&B accommodation) around this area, so it is possible to travel easily from crag to crag spending a few days in one area. Hence if you wish to visit a number of crags around Split and the various islands it is essential to hire a car.

It is also worth noting there is a rock climbing centre based on the island of Hvar, called
Cliff Base, where you can hire rock climbing equipment such as ropes and harnesses etc.


	Click on the images to view a larger photograph of the excellent rock climbing to be found around Split.