Saturday, October 28, 2017

Sport Climbing in Kalymnos 2017

Yes we went back!


After last year’s very nice climbing holiday in Kalymnos we decided to go back again.
We always enjoy the Greek sun and warm conditions in October. The only drawback are the huge climbing crowds during this period and it looked that it has become worse. Nevertheless we found ourselves again in less popular places where the rock is almost still unspoiled and sometimes we even find remarkable nice routes at extraordinary places.

We had to start easy this year as San is still suffering from a neck hernia and did not have much climbing training this year. She said that she would do only top-roping this vacation. We started at Poets and Zeus with some easy 5’s and 6’es where she quickly started flashing the routes. She even on-sighted some routes.
Next days we drove with our tiny scooter to a lot of places like Summertime, Rockland, Palionisos Redwall, The beach, Saint Potis, Prophitis Andreas and again we went also to Telendos.

One of the highlights of this vacation were our meetings with the “Famous” ladies from 365roadtrip! https://365roadtrip.blogspot.nl/
We saw their Van just standing outside Masouri in which they travel around the south of Europe for one year. We decided to do some climbing days together and we had great fun and enjoyed each other company. The ladies where well trained now and were aiming for higher rates routes, colognette and tufa overhang climbing. We helped them getting some more experience in this during the following days, it was great fun.
We will come back again.




Leaving Rockland with our Scooter


Putting in quick draws 7a at Sea Breeze


Not that easy

San in action

Maybe too early for this kind of work

Jan in Aboneros el Chilli 7B at Pescatore Telendos

Happy People back from Telendos









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