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Snowshoeing
Snowshoeing isn't unknown activity here. In old times our grand, grand parents used it on their villages in heavy winters to get to the beefs and sheeps, to feed them easier or to visit friends in nearby villages. Snowshoes were made of wooden frame with rope net in between, looked like today tennis racket. Still in many villages you can find these tools, mainly hangs on the walls reminds their owners at the time that has passed.
Nowdays snowshoe hiking knocks on the door as tourist product. Montenegro is a great playground for this relaxing winter activity. Numerous unmarked trails, deep pine forest, large plateaus, deep valleys, hills and mountains, abandoned katuns in winter time and plenty of snowfall call you to walk in pristine nature leaving your traces in fresh snow! No matter are you interested on a daily tour or multiday tours over one of the large mountain plateaus will be my pleasure to guide you and organise tour for you.
In winter 2012, with group of frineds I was engaged by Ministry of tourism on a project development of trails for snowshoe walking. Around 500 km of trails was included in this project. Let me show you some of them!
Sport climbing
- Smokovac, near Podgorica, my favorite place for climbing. There are around 70 routes. Hard, overhanging routes with good holds are charactersitic. There is room for 1000+ routes. Best time for climbing is spring and autumn, but it is possible in summer too, because of orientation. At any time of the day you will rock in the shadow!
- Kolasin - small crag on the north with 30 routes is nice place during summer.
- Gusinje, another climbing area on the north at the foot of mount Prokletije. There are few sectors, biggest one is near Alipasini springs. Unfortunately, climbing is not yet popular among locals, so crag is not well maintained.
- Pirlitor - Zabljak, newest crag, with 20 routes, good place during summer.
- Boka Kotorska, around 15 routes on 3 different places. Most interesting is above bus station in Kotor, but with only 4 routes.
- Povija, village near Ostrog monastery, very few routes, great potential, as well.
More information you can find on www.montenegroclimbing.net
If you need sport climbing instructor or just climbing partner feel free to contact.
Welcome text
"The experience of the mountain, that we feel when abandoning it, is always different from the persuasion we came with into its sides. In the mountain we see glory and mystery it scares us and we dream about it as a gift we've always wanted, but, yet, only every so often get. However we access it, adventure waits on its slopes. An adventure of a lively and close, yet fathomless and timeless experience. Adventure that sometimes starts without intention, and doesn not stop even when come back to everyday routines and conventionality. So, take your rucksack, put a little bit of dreams and fears in it, a piece of pride and a slice of doubt, desire and inexperience and let your feet take you in the mountain. All that you have packed will be returned at least a little bit different, but something new will always be here, something that will call you and attract you, and that will be harder and harder to resist. It's up to you to choose the time, place, method and equipment, but that choice is not the begeninig of mountaineering.That is a sign that you have deeply sailed in it and all that is left for you now is to steer in a world of mountain adventures. Using your heart as a compass.."
Ivan Laković
"Magnificient mountains"
About us
Vlajko-Vanja Pejović was born in Podgorica in 1979. He graduated the Faculty for Tourism and Hotel Management of Kotor. During his study, he started to go to the mountains and practice rock climbing. With a group of friends he founded Outdoor Club Podgorica and Mali Alpinistički Klub (Small Alpine Club). He organizeed and participated in several pioneering projects concerning the development of sport climbing areas (Smokovac, Kolašin, Tivat, Orjen, Bar). He also runs the web page montenegroclimbing.net. Furthermore, he has been active in marking hiking trails and organizing alpine climbing camps in the Montenegrin mountains, and he has also participated in a few rock, snow and ice climbing trips in the Dolomites, Chamonix, Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia. He climbed around 150 routes in the mountains and canyons of Montenegro, many of the were first ascent routes. He is a member of the Montenegrin Mountain Rescue Service since 2009. He is living and working in Podgorica with his wife Ana.
