Tyulenovo

So my big adventure this past weekend was a trip to Bulgaria to do some rock climbing. On my flight over here, I read an article on deep water soloing in the climbing magazine that my mom bought me for the trip. I had never heard of it before, but climbing without ropes over water sounded amazing. Given that I had just heard of it, I was pretty surprised when I got an opportunity to go try it out less than a week later. One of the Romanians I met through CouchSurfing mentioned that he was going to Tyulenovo,Bulgaria to do some deep water soloing, and I invited myself along. I was a bit unsure about driving to Bulgaria for the weekend with people I barely knew, but the risk was definitely worth it. The group was great, the scenery was unbelievable, and deep water soloing was an incredible rush!

If you took a look at the video in my last post, I should mention that my version of deep water soloing was much more relaxed than that. It was sort like what you might do if you couldn't decide whether to hang out on the beach or go climbing, so you decided to combine the two. The people I went with were excellent climbers, and the routes were very difficult, so I didn't do as much climbing as I would have liked. But in addition to trying my hand at deep water soloing, I got to watch some amazing climbing, swim in the Black Sea, and lie in the sun. I took a lot of pictures, and since they are proverbially worth a thousand words, I'll let them speak for themselves:














And here's a short video of some of the climbing I got to see. Unfortunately I didn't capture any good falls or jumps, but I'm told that the guy on the right with the red stripe on his shorts is Romania's best boulderer.