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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Sat 15th Jun 2024 - Leaota Massif
Mănăstirea Cetățuia Colţul Bufniţei
	7 ~7+	★★ Nasul Bufniţei - with Irena Salomia, Ioana Ilie, Stefan Rotaru	Sport 20m, 7	★★ Very Good	Alex Ilie
Sat 8th Jun 2024 - Piatra Craiului
Valea Ciorânga Peretele Ciorânga Mare
	4	★★★ Lespezile Lirei P1 1 4 Second Bondar version	Trad		Ruxandra V
Retreat off p2, runout was wetter than we would have liked
Sat 8th Jun 2024 - Coștila
Ţancul Ascuţit
	5	★★★ Fisura Întreruptă P1 1 5 Trad lead by Ruxandra V Bad head day	Trad 60m		Ruxandra V
Sun 5th May 2024 - Coștila
Văi şi brâne
	1B	Valea Coştilei	Alpine	Crap	Ruxandra V
Retreated at the canyon - a bit too much rockfall going on around me to risk it in the Costila particle accelerator.
Tue 30th Apr 2024 - Pietrele lui Solomon
Faleza Junilor
	6b+ Hard	★★★ Bacalaureat	Sport		Sabina D.
Sun 14th Apr 2024 - Sinaia
Stânca Sf. Ana Brâna
	7 ~7+	Muk	Sport 20m	Average	Silviu
Fri 12th Apr 2024 - Muchia Cheii
Peretele Animalelor
	6	★★ Muchia Iepuraşului - with Andrei Badea 1 6 Second lead by Andrei Badea 2 4 Second lead by Andrei Badea 3 6 Second lead by Andrei Badea 4 2 Second lead by Andrei Badea Linked with the previous one 5 6 Second lead by Andrei Badea Left exit	Trad 220m		Ruxandra V
Thu 11th Apr 2024 - Caraiman
Valea Spumoasă Pintenul Cascadei Inspumate
		Meșterică - with Andrei Badea	Sport 100m, 16		Ruxandra V
Probably a fun easy slab route when not covered in crap
Thu 11th Apr 2024 - Caraiman
Valea Spumoasă Colțul Berbecului
	6+ A0	Fisura Berbecului - with Andrei Badea 1 6- A0 55m Second lead by Andrei Badea Friable, dirty crap 2 6+ 30 Second lead by Andrei Badea Took flight with a rock the size of my head... same hold my 3kg lighter partner had put his whole weight on, on lead above crap pitons. No bueno. Spent some time working the moves in the overhang, felt quite proud to eventually manage it without aid. Couldn't do stuff like that last year. The lovely dihedral people mention is... fine I guess, but also short and bushy. Said fuck it and went home	Trad 85m	Crap	Ruxandra V
A family of worms crawls out of a pile of shit. Baby worm asks: mommy could we climb in Montserrat? Yes son, we could. Mommy but could we climb in Meteora? Of course, my dear. Mommy mommy, but could we even climb in Costila? Certainly, nothing's stopping us. Mommy, then why are we climbing in fucking Caraiman?
Sun 24th Mar 2024 - Pietrele lui Solomon
Faleza Junilor
	6a+	★★ Clasa zero barat - with Cristina Podocea	Sport		Ruxandra V
Toproped a plumb line containing bits of maybe 3 routes. Really cool overhanging start on alveoles. Footslip on a bit of the 5a I had done fine in boots earlier lol
	5a	★ Mami vreau la grădiniță - with Cristina Podocea	Sport		Ruxandra V
In boots, for practice. It's really hard to unclip the crux bolt when seconding
Sat 23rd Mar 2024 - Muchia Cheii
Faţa Hornurilor
	6	★★ Muchia Panseluţei - with Cristina Podocea 1 3 50m Trad lead by Ruxandra V 2 5+ 35m Second lead by Cristina Podocea 3 5+ 35m Trad lead by Ruxandra V Stopped a bit in the crux - far less scary than it was the first time though. Far less rope drag on halfropes too 4 6 35m Second lead by Cristina Podocea Wet 5 4+ 62m Trad lead by Ruxandra V New belay station right after the old tree. Rapping down the line can be done in 4 raps on 60m halfropes (unite pitches 2 and 3). Next time I'm doing it with my ropes on me tho, they got tangled in all possible bushes	Mixed trad 220m, 13		Ruxandra V
Mon 4th Mar 2024 - Făgărașului Massif
Negoiu - Lespezi - Călţun Peretele Nordic Lespezi-Călţun
	2A	Hornul Călţunului	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Solo,up to the major obstacle of the gully - so I really just did a bunch of snow frontpointing, and an attempt to bypass on the right ridge that fizzled out on account of 2m of shit snow I would have liked a belay on. Had a good rock for that and everything Tried going on one of the ledges that cross the wall (apparently the old timey routes are less committing than the modern stuff, since you can use those ledges to retreat to Hornul Caltunului when you cross them) but had weird vibes about the snow (corn crust above deep completely unconsolidated pow, on a northern face that sees no sun but a helluva lot of wind) so nah. Oh well, results not excuses. Did a nameless gully on the aiguille across the Portita Caltunului as a consolation prize. Classical Romanian 1A, up on snow, then switch to some grassy ledges with a couple chimney moves to cross through a narrow saddle on another grassy ledge (1 weird but very short traverse where the hold I'd have needed to reverse broke in my hand, and this above 30m of void) and then a walk up to the refuge. All in all, a very enjoyable morning.
Fri 23rd Feb 2024 - Făgărașului Massif
Bâlea Lac (Bâlea Lake) Paltinu Mixed Crags Central
	M8	★ Te Dai ori nu te Dai - with Mara Miron	Ice 18m, 5	★ Good	Andrei Verdeanu
Putting up the draws and breaking off all the rotten ice from the curtain. Strenuous, 30min job, but managed to clear all the bad ice and was left with a hefty ice overhang, ready to be climbed.
Thu 22nd Feb 2024 - Făgărașului Massif
Bâlea Lac (Bâlea Lake) Paltinu Mixed Crags Central
	M10	Ice Lure - with Mara Miron	Ice 30m, 15		Andrei Verdeanu
Climbed the first 10m, which follow a narrow icicle/flow, used only screws and rapped from a V-thread. — with Mara Miron
	M10	Ice Lure - with Mara Miron	Ice 30m, 15		Andrei Verdeanu
Climbed the first 10m, which follow a narrow icicle/flow, used only screws and rapped from a V-thread. — with Mara Miron
	M10	Ice Lure - with Mara Miron	Ice 30m, 15		Andrei Verdeanu
Climbed the first 10m, which follow a narrow icicle/flow, used only screws and rapped from a V-thread.
	M10	Ice Lure - with Mara Miron	Ice 30m, 15		Andrei Verdeanu
Climbed the first 10m, which follow a narrow icicle/flow, used only screws and rapped from a V-thread.
	M6 Hard	Access Direct - with Mara Miron	Ice 25m, 8	Crap	Andrei Verdeanu
Cleaning the route.
	M6 Hard	Access Direct - with Mara Miron	Ice 25m, 8	★ Good	Andrei Verdeanu
Friable and dirty, cleaned the first few meters. Redpointed in two bits, some holds (drilled ones) are broken, making the lower half almost impossible to link. Placed screws on lead and set up a V-thread with quicklink at the top for others to use.
Sat 13th Jan 2024 - Piatra Craiului
Padina lui Călineţ Văi şi brâne
	1B	Brâul de Sus - with Andrei Badea	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Hornul N portion. Retreated pretty quickly due to shit snow
Thu 28th Dec 2023 - Coștila
Văi şi brâne
	1B	★★★ Hornul Coamei - with baza	Alpine	★★★ Mega Classic	Ruxandra V
Really cool conditions (mostly dry in the lower side, hard ice patches) but after the approach from hell we were out of time. Rapped down from below the Furci icefall (not yet formed).
Sun 10th Dec 2023 - Făgărașului Massif
Sâmbăta Colţul Bălăceni
	M3	★★ Muchia Nord-Vestică - with Andrei Badea 1 M3 Second lead by Andrei Badea Ridge to the right of the normal gully, so we wouldn't bother the other team on the route 2 M2 Second lead by Andrei Badea Some M2 and more M1, we simulled maybe 10m 3 M2 Second lead by Andrei Badea Rejoined the official line. Back to the obelisk belay we retreated from last time. L'aventure commence. 4 M2 Second lead by Andrei Badea Spiciest pitch to lead. It's an easy but v exposed ridge, covered in unconsolidated snow. Can't see holds or pitons. With a lot of patience, housecleaning, commitment and a smidge of luck (hmm what is this great hold my right tool is on? Oooh a piton) it went well. Really fucking spectacular. Belay kinda leaning in our harnesses in one piton since we weren't sure we'd have anything better in reach 5 M3 Second lead by Andrei Badea Committing bit of ridge right after that single-piton belay, flake on the left looks like a good mobile placement but it'll fly. Easy, exposed ridge after 6 Second lead by Andrei Badea From the dihedral belay, we did the traverse versiron rather than the direct (one nut in the middle of the traverse, no pro otherwise. Found the crux quite spicy, it's a 5 in summer but small weird holds	Trad 320m	★★★ Mega Classic	Ruxandra V
Sun 10th Dec 2023 - Morarul
Văi şi brâne
	M4	Râpa Zăpezii - Râpa Mare - with baza	Alpine	Crap	Ruxandra V
Perfect consolidated snow in the lower part. The obstacle below the intersection with Rapa mica was recently affected by rockfall. The lower slab is full of crap, the upper right exit is blocked, and the upper left has you go through a new and poorly consolidated chimney and exit thru a sharp-edged window for a committing, exposed move on friable crap. Between this and the hopefully-not-tuberculosis cold from hell, I had bad vibes about continuing so we rapped off (we added a second piton to the rap station over the second obstacle - crack could be deeper, but it should do)
Sun 3rd Dec 2023 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului New Dry-tooling Crag
	M6	★ 4 - with alex	Ice 12m		Ruxandra V
Really glad Alex told me to try it, I'd never have guessed I can get my ass up a m6, even with rests
	M5	3 - with alex	Ice 10m		Ruxandra V
Much less of a struggle than last year
Sat 2nd Dec 2023 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Sector Creasta Generalului
	M5	★★★ Traseul 7	Ice 12m		Ruxandra V
Went slightly to the right of the bolt line, on the crack rather than the arete
Sat 2nd Dec 2023 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Sector Pintenul Magarului
	M4	Bondarul	Ice 20m		Ruxandra V
		Fluturele	Ice 20m		Ruxandra V
Sun 19th Nov 2023 - Făgărașului Massif
Bâlea Lac (Bâlea Lake) Bâlea
	M3	Piscul Bâlii - with Ionut Stirbu, Dan Colniceanu	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Alpine rope techniques class. We retreated off the penultimate peak since we wanted to catch the cabin down and we had moved quite slowly, since, again, classtime Absolutely lovely weather, 40-50cm unconsolidated powder snow.
Sun 22nd Oct 2023 - Coștila
Văi şi brâne
	1B	Valea Seacă a Coştilei - with marius, elena	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Initial plan was Hornul Ascuns, and this as approach. God, but it was less weedy 2 years ago
Sat 14th Oct 2023 - Coștila
Peretele Văii Albe
	5 ~Ac	★★ Lespezi - with andrei badea 1 3 Second lead by andrei badea 2 5 Second lead by andrei badea 3 1 Second lead by andrei badea 4 4 Second lead by andrei badea 5 5 Second lead by andrei badea	Trad		Ruxandra V
Partner not feeling well. From the Great Traverse, one can retreat down to the Sarutul Pamantului belay on Terenul de Fotbal in 1 55m rap, and then down the line of the route. At least I know the way now.
Sat 14th Oct 2023 - Pietrele lui Solomon
Faleza Junilor
	6a+ ~6a	★★ Examenul de capacitate - with Cristina Podocea	Sport	★★★ Classic	Ruxandra V
Got scared of the space between bolts on the layback (do I hit a ledge?). Wasted a lot of armpower, ended up falling with my feet 1m above the bolt. Turns out I do not hit a ledge. However, at this point I had run out of forearms.
Mon 4th Sep 2023 - Sinaia
Stânca Sf. Ana Brâna
	7 ~7+	Muk — 9 attempts	Sport 20m		Silviu
Starting section is really difficult, understood from other climbers there were parts of the rock broken making the first 5 moves harder. There is also a risk of hitting a tree behind you when you fall. Approaching for the right when you have a top rope makes it on par with the difficulty level.
Sun 20th Aug 2023 - Caraiman
Piranha
	5c	★★★ Omida - with Alex Georgescu	Sport		Ruxandra V
Pebble practice. This sort of climbing is a Sudoku puzzle. Find the best handhold for the hand you wanna move. Experiment with it until you get the best angle. Let that dictate your core and opposite leg position, step on whatever's best near that. Move the other leg freely to something that'll give you a good wide stance, get up on your feet, restart the process for the alternate hand. Like a spraywall full of small holds
	5a	Piranha - with Alex Georgescu	Sport 15m		Ruxandra V
Bit of a fear moment, wasted some energy on the traverse
Sun 13th Aug 2023 - Coștila
Ţancul Ascuţit
	7- A0	★★ Traseul Căţărătorului - with Mara Miron	Trad 95m		Andrei Verdeanu
Sat 12th Aug 2023 - Coștila
Ţancul Mic
	6+ A1	★★★ Hermann Buhl - with Dana Bazacliu 1 6+ A0 40m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu Split it in two pitches at the intermediate belay since they're not easy pitches anyway. Aided the whole of 1.1, 2 went mostly free. 2 6 A0 25m Second Cool exit over the ridge, very bouldery, airy move I couldn't free the first time tho 3 5 A0 40m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu Bushy slog leads to passing a slab blocking the ledge. That'd have been interesting had I not had heatstroke already Took a really annoying pendulum out of the belay 4 6 A1 40m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu At this point I just wanted everything to be over. Took a pendulum, really flailed passing the crux even on 2 aiders, not my best day.	Mixed trad 150m, 20		Ruxandra V
Note to self, don't climb this in the heat again. Cool route, very varied, got heatstroke
	6+ A0	★★ Fisura Răsucită - with Dana Bazacliu 1 6+ A0 40 Second lead by Dana Bazacliu Rested on the rope a lot to try and clear a stuck tricam 2 6+ 40 Second lead by Dana Bazacliu Pulled on gear on the friable portion and on the face exit 3 4 20 Second 4 6 35 Second	Mixed trad 140m, 15		Ruxandra V
Thu 29th Jun 2023 - Piatra Craiului
Padina lui Călineţ Văi şi brâne
	1B	Valea Podurilor - firul principal	Alpine		Ruxandra V
When you end up falling, twice, off a 2m tall 3 UIAA bit just because it's a tad lubey, it's a sign from God you're not supposed to solo the 12m slab that's next. Not today at least.
Sun 18th Jun 2023 - Piatra Craiului
Valea Ciorânga Văi şi brâne
	1B	Valea Ciorânga - with Andrei Badea	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Partial, up to the Ceaun, since the day's target was Tunelurile lui Tontsch.
Sun 11th Jun 2023 - Sinaia
Cariera din Sinaia
	5a+	★ Didi	Sport 17m, 8		Ruxandra V
Rain started
	5b	★★ Chicken	Sport 22m, 10		Ruxandra V
In boots, for the hell of it. Almost worked
	5b	★★ Chicken	Sport 22m, 10		Ruxandra V
Placing draws, held onto a couple while clipping
Fri 9th Jun 2023 - Muchia Cheii
Peretele Animalelor
	5	★★ Muchia Iepuraşului P1 - with Andrei Badea 1 5 Trad lead by Ruxandra V	Trad 220m		Ruxandra V
Head not in yet for the sort of runout this starts with - bailed out of a pair of friends a few meters below the second piton after realizing I'd need a triple rack if I wanted to protect this like I felt I needed to this time around
Sun 7th May 2023 - Muchia Cheii
Peretele Animalelor
	6+ A0	★★★ Mielul cel Blând - with Dana Bazacliu 1 5+ 45m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu 2 6+ A0 30m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu Crux (a traverse on technical slab) wasn't easy even as a second 3 6+ A0 55m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu One of the most beautiful pitchs I've climbed in my life - so varied! Climb a crack, alternating laybacking with hand jams, then traverse on a technical slab to the great dihedral. The great dihedral is the best possible argument for uniting the old 2 pitches in the current single mega-pitch, it has such incredible flow, the initial part is a good rest from the layback crack since your weight is off your hands now, and then it arches for another balancy traverse on underclings ending with a rather bouldery exit beyond its corner, out on easy slab before the end.	Trad 130m	★★★ Mega Classic	Ruxandra V
Incredibly aesthetic
	6 A0	★★ Muchia Căprioarei - with Dana Bazacliu 1 5+ 40m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu Slight rain,moving as fast as we can 2 5+ 40m Second lead by Dana Bazacliu By this time the rain had stopped. Ridge is lovely 3 3 25m Second 4 5+ 35m Second 5 6 A0 40m Second By this time we had caught on to another team on the route, and also the rain had started again rather more in earnest than the first time. Since their leader had already passed the now-quite-wet crux just before, they were kind enough to let us hitch one of our half-rope ends to one of them and have us both second it on a long, long chain of half-ropes. Crux is really iffy and unpleasant when wet, a lot of essential feet are smears and you really don't feel like pulling hard on the right slab either, it's not quite neatly attached to the wall. Ended up doing a lot of pull-ups and using the pitons as footholds. 6 6- 40m Second	Trad 220m	★ Good	Ruxandra V
Sat 6th May 2023 - Caraiman
Peretele Albişoarelor
	2A	Albişoara Brânei	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Solo walk up to the first obstacle (knew I didn't want to continue since the exit is heavily corniched)
	1B	Albişoara Turnurilor	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Solo. Lower obstacles already partially uncovered. Felt like I needed a belay
Mon 1st May 2023 - Coștila
Văi şi brâne
	2A	★★★ Valea Urzicii	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Solo. Perfect, perfect snow, covering everything under BMC. The major obstacle above BMC is also almost entirely covered - maybe 3m of M2 today. Didn't continue, though, since on such a warm and sunny day there was quite a bit of rockfall, a lot of it funnelled through the obstacle, and considering the visible corniche on the right upper line and that the invisible and theoretically corniche free left upper line involved a rocky friable ridge I didn't yet know if I was ok with unbelayed, I decided against the version of reality where I had a good chance of needing to go down the funnel...err... major obstacle once again 2h later in full noon sun. Easy descent, 90% walking and a bit of downclimbing, on not yet sticky snow, in 1h
Sat 22nd Apr 2023 - Piatra Craiului
Prăpăstiile Zărneştilor MCM
	7- Hard	★★★ Le Slaubeause — 5 attempts - with gabriel bazacliu	Sport 10m	★★★ Classic	Ruxandra V
Route is really cool and v psychological. Graded as a 6 in the park topo, really closer to 7-/7 (not only my opinion). Could get to the third bolt, couldn't make it past the crux there. Need to problem solve more
Sat 22nd Apr 2023 - Piatra Craiului
Prăpăstiile Zărneştilor La Refugiu
	6	★ Diagonal - with gabriel bazacliu	Sport 25m		Ruxandra V
Tired and a bit off my game after Slabeause. Didn't have guts to lead it, was iffy about following it too but at least I got to the top
Sat 22nd Apr 2023 - Piatra Craiului
Prăpăstiile Zărneştilor Prăpăstii
	3A	Traseul Începătorilor P1 - with gabriel bazacliu 1 Second lead by gabriel bazacliu	Trad		Ruxandra V
Friable and poorly protected, albeit v easy. Decided it wasn't worth it
Sat 1st Apr 2023 - Piatra Craiului
Padina lui Călineţ Văi şi brâne
	M2	Brâul de Sus - with Andrei Badea	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Hornul N portion, retreated at Saua cu Iarba due to snow conditions
Sun 12th Mar 2023 - Caraiman
Peretele Albişoarelor
	2A	★★★ Albişoara Gemenelor - with Gabriel Bazacliu	Alpine	★★★ Classic	Ruxandra V
On descent from Braul Hornurilor (tagging this as an attempt since the crux of the route in winter conditions is right above Braul Hornurilor). Concrete-hard iced snow, downclimbed the lot of it on belay, without swinging them my tools would often only penetrate if I placed them in my footprints, and the footprints often didn't show any marks for the secondary teeth... Not sure how, but we got to La Verdeata by daylight. Well, dusklight, but you know.
Fri 10th Mar 2023 - Morarul
Văi şi brâne
	1B	Valea Adâncă - with Andrei Badea	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Having reached the valley entrance with hours to go, we went back up until 2000m altitude, when the snow got shitty and we got hungry. It's a highway to the ridge basically
Thu 22nd Dec 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Sector Pintenul Magarului
	M7 Hard	★ Ţânţarul - with Virgil Litan	Ice 27m	★ Good	Andrei Verdeanu
Workout. Tired.
Wed 14th Dec 2022 - Coștila
Văi şi brâne
	4	★★ Valea Gălbinelelor (principal) - with Andrei Badea	Alpine		Ruxandra V
We came, we saw, we fucked off. Too much work for an approach route.
Tue 6th Dec 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului New Dry-tooling Crag
	M4	12 - with Marian Anghel	Ice 12m		Ruxandra V
Can do the moves (cool left layback traverse!) and, now that I've figured out that feet exist, could probably do it toprope. Am quite mentally tired after 4 days though, and controlling tiny holds or not blowing feet isn't happening anymore
	M7	10 - with Marian Anghel	Ice 12m		Ruxandra V
Thought it was the M5 next to it and faffed a bit on the initial overhang
	M4 Hard	2 — 2 attempts - with Marian Anghel	Ice 10m		Ruxandra V
Tried a face only version, to protect my wrist. Feels significantly harder than either the dihedral official entrance or the face part above. Can do the moves, but come out of it pumped out.
Mon 5th Dec 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului New Dry-tooling Crag
	M5	3 - with Marian Anghel	Ice 10m		Ruxandra V
Cool crack with a sneaky face exit near the top. Really fun (and better feet than the M4 ladder next to it - cooler, more varied moves) but unfortunately I need to work with my right wrist at an angle for most of it, and it's an angle on a messed up tendon. Not going to try it again any time soon.
	M4 Hard	2 — 4 attempts - with Marian Anghel	Ice 10m		Ruxandra V
Baby's first real drytooling experience. Life is significantly easier in the alpine where you do a couple moves between rest and full rest, even if the moves are harder. I have no idea how to make my feet stick well enough to not run out of gas halfway through a 10m route
Sun 27th Nov 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Cave (Overhang) Dry-tooling Crag
	M8 Hard	★ Corabia Nebunilor - with Virgil Litan	Ice 22m	★ Good	Andrei Verdeanu
Sat 26th Nov 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului New Dry-tooling Crag
	M7	5 - with Virgil Litan	Ice 12m	Crap	Andrei Verdeanu
Crap!
Sat 26th Nov 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Cave (Overhang) Dry-tooling Crag
	M8 Hard	★ Corabia Nebunilor - with Virgil Litan	Ice 22m	★ Good	Andrei Verdeanu
Sat 19th Nov 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Sector Creasta Generalului
	6+ Hard	★★★ Crida — 2 attempts - with Marian Anghel	Sport 22m	★★★ Classic	Ruxandra V
One of those classical limestone face 6 UIAAs on jugs but with the jugs sparse enough that you need to do some long moves. Some footsmears are useful, and at 2 points life gets positively balancy. Have figured out the moves more or less, can't yet connect them
Sun 11th Sep 2022 - Coștila
Umărul Gălbinelelor
	6 A1 ~6+	★★ Traseul Coman - with andrei badea 1 4 40 Second lead by andrei badea 2 3 20 Second lead by andrei badea Friable 3 4 A1 15 Second lead by andrei badea Used an aider to get past the crux. Pro is slightly spicy for a beginner like me (groundfall risk in the crux... not from high, but not nice either. Much easier w/o backpack since the crux is an offwidth that widens to a body jam so if you can enter the jam it'll make your life so much easier. There's a good hand jam in one of the secondary cracks if you can reach it when you'll need it. Above that it's easy chimney on good holds, no fixed pro but mobile opportunities. 4 3 35 Second lead by andrei badea 5 6 50 Second lead by andrei badea Retreated off intermediate belay station from Rosculet due to rain and hearing some thunder in the distance. Crux is fun, an overhanging bouldery crack move. Seems to be a cool feet sequence there but I didn't have the time to work it out so just pulled on draws to get the hell out of Dodge. Splitting the length is a good idea anyway I feel, communication would be iffy otherwise. If you do retreat down Rosculet as we did, the next bolted station is 45m down on a grassy ledge under an overhang (you'll see an hourglass threaded with red 5mm cord on the way - we set the cord but didn't rap it - then a piton (rapped it, moves a bit but stayed fast) and then the bolt). I really really recommend having the last person that leaves the belay be someone who can deal with passing knots on rappel, and pulling the rope before they leave until it passes the grassy ledge, because it's a bit friable and likes to eat knots. 2 ~30m halfropes, frizzy lower ends, free to a good home if you hurry there. 6 Trad	Trad 160m	★★ Very Good	Ruxandra V
Sat 20th Aug 2022 - Coștila
Peretele Gălbinelelor
	5 A0	★★ Grotelor - with Andrei Badea 1 3 lead by Andrei Badea 2 4 lead by Andrei Badea 3 5 A0 lead by Andrei Badea 4 4 A0 lead by Andrei Badea 5 5 A0 lead by Andrei Badea	Mixed trad 150m, 2	★★ Very Good	Ruxandra V
First time on a wall route I didn't aid my whole way up on (and tbh, I'm not sure Suhardul Mic counts that much as a wall). Love. Spoilers ahoy Approach was on Galbinele valley and Hornul dintre Fire. Pitch 1 is a classical alpine chimney, fun stemming, not really any useful pro but this isn't really fall territory either. Pitch 2 also an easy slab crack, nothing much to say. First two are approach, really. Pitch 3 is where the fun begins. After a start that's either bouldery (official version) or a bit of a finesse traverse to the right (our version) you do a slabby traverse to the right to an oblique overhanging crack where a big old peg is visible. We clipped into it, creating mucho rope drag for the rest of the pitch, then downclimbed the traverse and headed straight up on less pumpy terrain until the bolt at the beginning of the second crack. Then started the pumpy overhangy part (topo said good holds, I broke a couple of them before saying screw it and starting to pull on quickdraws). Crux is a slightly bouldery exit out of the overhang using a crack to the right, that we felt is a bit spicier than the claimed 6/6+ . Can easily be aided through with the use of a 0.5 friend, however (the only mobile we ended up using). After that, it's easy terrain up to the belay Pitch 4 is long and well protected (about 20 pegs/bolts) and we only had 13 quickdraws on us so we ended up splitting it in 2 (there's a belay station from Don Corleone accessible from it). Pitch 4.1 was lots of slabby crack, basically, with a few careful traverses, and pitch 4.2 started with an easy slab walkup to the left and then a well-protected few meters up with an exit between a few boulders that would make linking this with p5 a bit iffy, I think Pitch 5 is short but not easy - after a slab traverse to the left you head up on a system of cracks on a slightly overhangy background. Secondary crux of the route - it's far less pumpy than the initial one, but unlike p3 this isn't on jugs but requires balance, finesse feet and some rather sinuous dance steps. Had we but worlds enough and time, I'd have loved to work this out like a sport route since it's right at the limit of my rotpunkt ability and very much my style, but I had a train to catch and the whole of Galbinele valley to descend on a still iffy ankle so if a move wouldn't go on the second try I pulled on the quickdraw for the third and moved on. Retreat was by rapping down (I had left my trekking sticks at the Costila refuge and had to get them back) - first 3 raps would've worked on a single 60m rope, if a bit on the edge of it, 4th one needs maybe 70m of rope, and 5th needs 2 60m ropes stretched to the limit and reaches a peg one can also do a not-very-standard short rap off non-vertical terrain to the valley bottom to avoid a bit of downclimbing. Then we descended off the Galbenele Valley main line, which is pretty full of scree from this year's earlier rockfall off Tavanele de Argint
Wed 17th Aug 2022 - Pârâul Rece
Faleza Mare
	6+	★★ Nea Caisă	Sport 20m		Rihards Zauls
	6+	★★ Nea Caisă - with Rihards Zauls	Sport 20m	★★ Very Good	Hermanis Verhoustinskis
First clip a bit high and spacing on bolts a bit scary for beginners. But all around good climb just find the rests.
	6+	★★ Nea Caisă - with kurgelis	Sport 20m	★★ Very Good	Rūta
	6	★★ Ţancul Retezat - with Rihards Zauls	Sport 20m	★★ Very Good	Hermanis Verhoustinskis
On-sight it is not very clear where the intended bolts are and if they are so far in-between. Commitment to the bulge is too much.
Tue 16th Aug 2022 - Pietrele lui Solomon
Faleza Junilor
	6a+	★★ La școala de ghizi - with Rihards Zauls	Sport	★★★ Classic	Hermanis Verhoustinskis
Fantastic route. BIG recomend
Mon 15th Aug 2022 - Pietrele lui Solomon
Faleza Junilor
	5c+	★ Stagiatura - with kurgelis	Sport	★ Good	Rūta
Wed 3rd Aug 2022 - Pârâul Rece
Faleza Mare
	6	★★ Clasic - with Ivan	Sport 37m	★★ Very Good	Steve Daltrey
Tue 2nd Aug 2022 - Pietrele lui Solomon
Faleza Junilor
	6a+	★★ Examenul de capacitate - with ivan	Sport	★★ Very Good	Steve Daltrey
I had some difficulty with the barbaresa
Mon 1st Aug 2022 - Piatra Craiului
Prăpăstiile Zărneştilor La Refugiu
	6	★ Diagonal - with Ivan	Sport 25m	★★ Very Good	Steve Daltrey
	6 6/6+	★★ Doi Jidani - with Ivan	Sport 25m	★★ Very Good	Steve Daltrey
Sat 30th Jul 2022 - Piatra Craiului
Valea Dâmbovicioarei Faleza La Pensiune
	6-	★ Alex - with Ivan	Sport 18m	★ Good	Steve Daltrey
Hard for the grade.
	6	★ Ştefan - with Ivan	Sport 17m	★ Good	Steve Daltrey
Very hard for the grade, even with the drilled out crimp at the crux!
Sat 4th Jun 2022 - Pietrele lui Solomon
Faleza Junilor
	6a+	★★ La școala de ghizi - with Cristina Melichian	Sport		alex707
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-nf6VGrsQM
Sat 4th Jun 2022 - Făgărașului Massif
Sâmbăta Colţul Bălăceni
	5	★★ Muchia Nord-Vestică - with andrei badea	Trad 320m	★ Good	Ruxandra V
Retreated with 3 pitches to go due to storm risk. We did an alternate version that skips the first 2 easy pitches (with a sketchy belay - 2 pitons, 1 of them 50 years old and the other badly placed, apparentl) and replaces them with 4 not very long all trad pitches (max UIAA 4 and not for long). Retreat was 3 raps and a bit of downclimbing on the main route line - 1 rap was pitch 3 of the original route(mind the ropes, if rapping off the big rock you need to go a bit left from the comfy part of the belay or the in situ cordelette starts rubbing on a sharp edge) 1 rap was part of pitch 2 (which is 70m) and the third one was off a new rap station we set up on 2 blade pitons. I'd advise against using it as a belay station since the pitons are good but the rock isn't, and there are few protection opportunities on the grassy gully above. A fourth rap is possible off a rock spike to the right of the gully line, but we just downclimbed it.
Thu 14th Apr 2022 - Morarul
Colţii Morarului
	2	★★★ Traversarea Acelor Morarului - with Andrei Badea 1 2 lead by Andrei Badea 2 2- lead by Andrei Badea	Trad	★★★ Mega Classic	Ruxandra V
Winter conditions. Did Acul mare, retreated because of lack of time, iffy snow ahead and great snow on our retreat option
Mon 21st Mar 2022 - Făgărașului Massif
Bâlea Lac (Bâlea Lake) Paltinu Mixed Crags Left
	M6	? - with Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 50m	Crap	Andrei Verdeanu
Very poor conditions. 1-2cm ice, minimal pro in place. Had to downclimb after an 8m runout above the last bolt, as I couldn't find the next one.
Sun 20th Mar 2022 - Făgărașului Massif
Bâlea Lac (Bâlea Lake) Paltinu Mixed Crags Central
	M8	★ Te Dai ori nu te Dai (Te Dai sau nu te Dai) - with Andrei Gruia, Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 18m, 5	★ Good	Andrei Verdeanu
Fri 18th Mar 2022 - Făgărașului Massif
Bâlea Lac (Bâlea Lake) Paltinu Mixed Crags Central
	M8	★★ Share Location - with Andrei Gruia, Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 18m, 5	★★ Very Good	Andrei Verdeanu
	M6	Access Direct - with Andrei Gruia, Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 25m, 8	Crap	Andrei Verdeanu
Sun 20th Feb 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului New Dry-tooling Crag
	M7	8 - with Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 12m		Andrei Verdeanu
Fell because multiple holds broke.
	M7	9 - with Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 12m		Andrei Verdeanu
Fell because multiple holds broke.
	M7	5 - with Virgil Litan	Ice 12m	Don't Bother	Andrei Verdeanu
	M7	5 - with Virgil Litan	Ice 12m	Don't Bother	Andrei Verdeanu
Too friable, broke several holds. Decided to bail instead.
	M8	★★ 6 - with Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 13m	★★ Very Good	Andrei Verdeanu
Fell because a hold broke.
	M8	7 - with Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 13m		Andrei Verdeanu
Could not find the link.
	M7	8 - with Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 12m		Andrei Verdeanu
Fell because multiple holds broke.
	M7	8 - with Cosmin Burlacu	Ice 12m		Andrei Verdeanu
Fell because multiple holds broke.
Sun 20th Feb 2022 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Sector Pintenul Magarului
	M7	★ Ţânţarul - with Virgil Litan	Ice 27m	★★★ Classic	Andrei Verdeanu
Soaking rain.
Sat 11th Dec 2021 - Coștila
Văi şi brâne
	1B	Valea Seacă a Coştilei - with Marian Anghel	Alpine		Ruxandra V
10-20cm of soft snow. Retreat at 1700m (crossing Valea Verde and Malinului and descending on Valcelul lui Teodor) due to bad weather and late time. Single, nontechnical axe (fine as second if avoiding the main obstacles)
Sat 27th Nov 2021 - Bucşoiul
Văi şi brâne
	1B	★★★ Valea Bucşoiului	Alpine		Ruxandra V
Stopped and rapped back down at Turnul cu Jnepeni so as to make it to the path by daylight.
Sat 5th Dec 2020 - Muchia Cheii
Cheile Râşnovului Cave (Overhang) Dry-tooling Crag
	M8	★ Corabia Nebunilor - with Daniel Burcea	Ice 22m		Andrei Verdeanu