Rock climbing in the Bled to Lake Bohinj Valley in western Slovenia

The Bled to Lake Bohinj valley has a reputation as being one of the best outdoor recreation areas in Slovenia, including some excellent rock climbing and sports climbing. The valley is dominated by Mount Triglav (2,863m high), which offers many excellent mountaineering routes to its summit. Down in the valley there are 7 main sports climbing crags offering over 350 routes across a good range of grades. The routes are generally single pitch on good quality limestone and reasonably bolted. Bled is an ideal place to be based to visit many of the other crags in western Slovenia. Due to the country's excellent road structure (and relatively small size) these crags are generally easily reached within an hour, offering a wide scope of routes to choose from, including some multi-pitch routes up to 440m high.

Map of the rock climbing areas around Bled, Lake Bohinj and western Slovenia

Guidebooks for Slovenia

All the above information has been extracted from the only comprehensive rock climbing guidebook for Slovenia, called "Slovenija Sportnoplezalni Vodnik - Sports Climbing in Slovenia", which is available to buy from our shop.

The South Eastern Europe rock climbing Atlas gives some excellent general information about rock climbing and sports climbing in Slovenia, including the area around Bled and Bohinj. As well as covering Slovenia, this book also includes rock climbing information about Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia and Romania. Buy this book from our shop.

Rock climbing areas around Bled in Western Slovenia
No	Crag Name	No of routes	Grade Range	Max Height	Number of Routes in Gade Range
No	Crag Name	No of routes	Grade Range	Max Height	Up to 5c	6a+to 6c+	7a to 7c+	Over 8a
1	Urbasova skala	27	4a-7b	26m	13	13	1	0
2	Blazceva skala	20	4a-7c+	80m	1	5	14	0
3	Kovacevec	15	4c-7b+/c	13m	4	6	5	0
4	Radovna	11	6a+ -7c	25m	0	7	4	0
5	Gorje	18	4a-7a+	20m	3	14	1	0
6	Zavrsnica	36	5a-7c+/8a	80m	3	15	18	0
7	Bohinjska Bela	79	3-8c+	33m	11	19	38	11
8	Kupljenik	31	5b-8a+	32m	1	9	20	1
9	Bodesce	37	5c-7b+	25m	1	17	19	0
10	Nomenj	34	4a-7a+	28m	18	12	4	0
11	Bitenj potok	53	5a- 8a	50m	3	21	28	1
12	Bitnje	49	4a-8b	35m	6	11	22	10
13	Savnica	10	5b-7b+	25m	1	7	2	0
14	Rudnica	11	6a-7b	25m	0	8	3	0
15	Dov	22	5c-7a+	20m	1	17	4	0
16	Pec	55	4a-7c	28m	16	25	14	0
17	Bohinj - Bellevue	59	2-7b+	30m	37	16	6	0
18	Bohinj - Pod Skalo	48	3-7c+	40m	9	21	18	0
19	Vrsic	35	4a-6c+	100m	8	26	1	0
20	Pri Pavru	15	4a-7b	40m	6	7	2	0
21	Pri Plajerju - Trent	29	4a-7b	16m	10	16	3	0
22	Kal - Koritnica	33	4c-7b	35m	21	10	2	0
23	Kegl	26	4- 7b	21m	13	11	2	0
24	Kanin	53	3-7a+	30m	28	23	2	0
25	Pri Zvikarju	12	5a -7b+	25m	4	7	1	0
26	Nadiza	15	4a -7b+/c	30m	2	8	5	0
27	Pod Kopitcem	27	4c -7a	28m	5	21	1	0
28	Skratova skala	7	4b-7a	30m	4	2	1	0
29	Zvanov rob	15	4a-7b+	17m	6	5	4	0
30	Pri Ciginju	45	3 - 7c	16m	11	23	11	0
31	Senica	48	4a -8a	30m	14	21	12	1
32	Porezen	10	6a-7b+	25m	0	8	2	0
33	Prtovc	34	5a-7b+	26m	1	24	9	0
34	Pod Suso	21	4c- 8a+	17m	5	8	5	3
35	Lutne skale	99	3-7c+/8a	22m	37	41	21	0
36	Slap ob Idrijci	20	5a-7a+	25m	3	14	3	0
37	Drnulk	51	4a-7b+	40m	18	27	6	0
38	Dolge njive	51	4a-8a	14m	17	27	6	1
39	Lijak	21	5a -8a+	65m	1	11	8	1
40	Strug	60	3-7c+	40m	10	27	23	0
41	Marof	40	4a-7c	18m	18	16	6	0
42	Gore	38	3-7c+	17m	11	22	5	0
43	Vipavska Bela	117	2- 8c/c+	30m	37	36	25	19
44	Vipava	277	2-7c+	110m	154	92	31	0

Logistics

The ideal time to visit Bled and this area for rock climbing is from spring through to the autumn, though it does get hot and very busy in the summer. This area is also ideal to include a few days rock climbing as part of your general holiday. Lifetrek Adventures are based in Bled and offer a full rock climbing service from hiring a climbing partner to hiring all equipment such as harnesses and ropes etc. With regards to gear a 60m rope is the minimum requirement with a 70m rope being ideal along with around 15 quickdraws. Getting to Bled is very easy as it is only approximately an hour’s drive from Ljubljana airport, which is served by many European airlines.