Croatia · Omiš
Rambo
Omiš's signature moderate: long, slabby pitches on knobbly grey limestone with big views over the Cetina mouth and the Adriatic. The crux is a short crack on the final pitch.
6a6 pitches230 m
Forma Piva
Stomorica · Omiš · Croatia
Read the cautionsBail with caveatsBolting confidence: high
Sharp, coral-like rock mixing slab and steep juggy walls, finishing up a crack system. It has the best views in Omiš, over the sea, the river and the old town.
- Hardest pitch
- 6a+
- Pitches
- 5
- Length
- 200 m
- Approach
- –
- Aspect
- –
- Not recorded
- Rope
- 2×70 m
Read before you go
Fully bolted (rebolted 2006, reported good in 2021), but the descent needs 2×70 m ropes or route-finding on the ridge, and a hornets' nest was reported on pitch 1 in 2023.
The route
Overview
Forma Piva is a five-pitch sport route on the left-hand, multipitch side of Stomorica, the wall above the coast road just north-west of Omiš. It starts up a slab, crosses right to a crack system and follows it with two steeper, juggy 6a+ pitches on sharp limestone. It dates from 1986 and was fully rebolted from the ground up for its 20th anniversary, so it climbs as a sport route. The climbing is well protected where it is hard; the serious part is the descent, which needs either two 70 m ropes or some route-finding along the ridge.
In pictures
Photos
The areaThe limestone gate of the Cetina at Omiš, seen across the river mouth; the town's crags, Stomorica among them, are on cliffs like these.Photo: SchiDD · CC BY-SA 4.0
The climbing
Pitch by pitch
5c4a6a+6a/6a+5b
| Pitch | Grade | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | 5c | 35 m | Slabby start with the crux at the third bolt, then easier ground to a shaded belay ledge. A 2023 warning reports a hornets' nest in the big crack on this pitch; pass it on the right. |
| P2 | 4a | 30 m | Short link pitch traversing right (only two bolts according to Mountain Project) to the foot of the crack system. Graded 4a locally, 4b on Mountain Project. |
| P3 | 6a+ | 40 m | Steep, juggy climbing up the crack line, well bolted. The rock is sharp. |
| P4 | 6a/6a+ | 40 m | Moves between holds in the crack and bolts on the face. The last bolts are widely spaced. The belay at the top of this pitch is the one the local topo uses for the two-rope abseil. |
| P5 | 5b | 30 m | Shorter, easier pitch to the top of the crack system. Above it about 30 m of unbolted easy scrambling leads to a tree on the ridge. |
Getting there
Approach
To the parking
Omiš is on the coast road south-east of Split. Stomorica is on the west side of the Cetina, on the hillside to your right as you drive north-west from the Omiš bridge towards Split. Mountain Project gives two options. By car: about 500 m north-west of the bridge turn right onto a small street signed 'Duće' and 'staro selo', follow it uphill for about 1.1 km through a right and then a left hairpin, and at the second (left) hairpin take a single-lane dirt road for 0.4 km to a small parking area by a rusty gate (overflow pull-outs near the hairpin). On foot: a trail climbs almost straight up from the petrol station, shop and Kamp Galeb campsite below the wall. The route page itself describes parking near the end of Put Vrila road and taking a trail that starts behind a small hut where the road begins to descend.
On foot
From the gate, go up and left past a vineyard, then up a stone wall to a path heading right. The multipitch routes (Canadair and Forma Piva) are reached before the single-pitch sector. At the base, Forma Piva is the right-hand of two bolt lines on Stomorica Left; Canadair is to its left. No source gives a walking time.
Map of the walk-in
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Coordinates: 43.44497, 16.68116 (crag)
Getting down
Descent
Three options are described, and none is a simple single-rope abseil. (1) Local topo (SPK Marulianus): the most efficient descent is two abseils with 2×70 m ropes from the penultimate belay, at the top of pitch 4. (2) Abseiling from every belay of the route is possible but awkward, because the line trends right the whole way. (3) From the top, the Marulianus text mentions an old abseil line at the lowest point of Stomorica, reached along the ridge eastwards from the exit. The 2021 Mountain Project party could not find the abseil station their guidebook showed; they scrambled along the ridge to a tree and abseiled from bolts beside it into the gully, where a trail leads back to the road. The Mountain Project area page describes a 50 m abseil from the low notch in the skyline.
Retreat
Bailing off the route
Bail with caveats
Retreat by abseil is possible but awkward. The local topo says you can abseil from every belay, but the line trends right the whole way, so the abseils do not hang straight back down the pitches. With a single rope the sources point you towards topping out and descending from the ridge instead.
- Retreat from
- Every belay has a bolted anchor you can abseil from, according to the local topo. R4 is the best equipped: two abseils with 2×70 m ropes reach the ground from there.
- Point of no return
- Not stated by any source. By inference, with a single rope you are committed to finishing once you are above the pitch 2 traverse, because the long diagonal abseils need two ropes.
- Carry
- Two ropes. 2×70 m for the two-abseil descent from R4; shorter double ropes mean more, diagonal abseils from belay to belay.
- Basis
- Part stated, part inferredThe SPK Marulianus topo (via the guide) states that abseiling from every belay is possible but awkward and that R4 gives two abseils on 2×70 m; the single-rope commitment is inferred from the pitch lengths of 30 to 40 m.
Partly inferred from the route facts
Safety
Hazards
- Hornets' nest reported in the large crack on pitch 1 (plezanje.net warning, November 2023); the advice was to bypass it on the right.
- The descent is not straightforward: the route trends right, so abseiling it pitch by pitch needs care, and the two-abseil option needs 2×70 m ropes. A 2021 party did not find the abseil station shown in their guidebook.
- The last 30 m to the ridge tree is unbolted easy scrambling.
- Final bolts on pitch 4 are widely spaced; bolts are 2–3 m apart only on the harder sections.
- Sharp rock on pitch 3.
- The bolts date from the 2006 rebolting. They were reported as looking in good condition in March 2021; no later report was found.
Sun and weather
Conditions
No source read gives the aspect or sun hours for the multipitch wall. The first belay ledge is described as shaded. A 2022 visitor found Stomorica very hot on a clear day. The spring and autumn season listed here is not contradicted.
Usual season · Mar to May, Oct to Nov
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Sun on the wall
No estimate: the wall's aspect is not recorded for this route.
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar (usual season) | Apr (usual season) | May (usual season) | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct (usual season) | Nov (usual season) | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily high °C | 8 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 18 | 13 | 9 |
| Mean daily low °C | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 3 |
| Rain days 1 mm or more | 11 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 12 |
● marks the usual climbing season. Averages for 1991-2020 at about 333 m. Area climate from Open-Meteo reanalysis. Temperatures are adjusted to the height of the crag; rain comes from a grid cell of about 10 to 25 km, and summer highs on sea cliffs can read a few degrees low. The wall and valley can differ. Data: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
What to carry
Gear
12 quickdraws are enough according to the Mountain Project author (who carried 15). Two 70 m ropes if you want the two-abseil descent from the top of pitch 4. Helmet. No trad gear is mentioned by any source.
Checklist
- Quickdraws
- 12
- Rope
- 2×70 m
- Helmet
- One each
- Abseil device and prusik
- The descent or the retreat involves abseiling
Derived from the route data; check it against a current topo
From climbers
Reader reports
Reader reports are not being collected yet. Until they are, check a current topo and the local club or guidebook publisher for recent changes to Forma Piva.
Worth knowing
Tips
- With a single rope, plan on topping out and descending from the ridge rather than abseiling the route.
- Kamp Galeb sits directly below the wall and has a direct footpath to the crag.
- A free PDF topo of Omiš (climbingomis.com) lists the route with its pitch grades.
Open questions
Where sources disagree
- Pitch 2: 4a in the Marulianus topo, the climbingomis.com guide and plezanje.net; 4b on Mountain Project. Followed the local grade.
- Pitch lengths: Marulianus gives 35, 30, 40, 40, 30 m; the Mountain Project author estimated about 30, 18, 30, 30, 20 m plus 30 m of scrambling. Followed the local figures, which are the conservative ones for abseiling.
- Total length: about 200 m to the top (Marulianus, climbingomis.com, plezanje.net) against 182 m on Mountain Project. This entry uses 200 m.
- Quickdraws: the only source that counts says 12 are needed; this entry lists 12.
Provenance
Sources
- Mountain Project – Forma PivaUsed for: pitch descriptions, bolt spacing, quickdraws, 2021 hardware condition, descent actually used
- Mountain Project – Stomorica areaUsed for: driving directions, parking, approach, 50 m abseil from the notch
- plezanje.net – Forma pivaUsed for: pitch grades, length, 2023 hornets warning, rebolting and descent note
- SPK Marulianus – Omiš, additional route information (archived)Used for: first ascent, rebolting, pitch grades and lengths, descent with 2×70 m
- climbingomis.com – Omiš climbing guide PDFUsed for: grade, length, pitch grades
- Rock Around The World – OmišUsed for: Kamp Galeb below the wall, heat
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