Crag Guide for Armeos

meanders and long runout over easy section

I know I have done this before, a couple of times I think, it's still not great - seems to have m...

Pockets suck when there's tufas to climb

Fun stuff

Really really really fun, just a pity you have to go up ziegen Peter to get to it.... Super rope ...

Fun pockets, but i dont think the number rings true.

Executed. [3]

Not a climb to do with a collateral ligament injury....a really bad one. So I top roped it instea...

fingery

Actually rather stiff little unit. it scrapes over the line from average rating as it was dry!!

This climb is now dead to me..... One über polished footer is all that is stopping me... As well ...

Quite involved, sustained except the hands free in the middle

Tank hit empty 2 bolts from the top, gahhhh!

A total classic, even when wet.

Mega route with wicked limestone features the whole way, fell into a great knee bar rest at the t...

Contrived up top unfortunately. One star.

First try today, and did it so nicely. I am stoked! [6]

Fell reaching to pocket

Draws were on, why not

3 cracks today. Should've sent but fluffed on the big move after the crux. Will be back at some s...

Closer to onsight than flash. Clips were in, I saw a french guy up there but I had no beta. 45m m...

My first 7b. Amazing climb! What a contrast between cruxes...

Thought it was 24, upgraded to 25, nice!

The most chalked line I have climbed yet, mainly jugs but a couple of hard sequenced pulls at the...

Repeat. Warmup.

Well this is odd. When I climbed this route (2008) there was no anchor, just a mess of tat and ru...

Pretty happy to bag the Cobra second try. All routes and extensions in the bowl now done. Used a ...

Fell on the LAST bolt on the onsight. Destroyed! Super happy to have got that far onsight.

Felt way pumpy, need a rest after 4 days straight

Added to the sneaker list.

2 burns. One hanged the second burn.

New Mon Bat extension. Bouldery. Mine was perhaps the 2nd ascent? Chloe Minoret flashed it after ...

Wild bridging up the wet tufas

Warm up

Hard with no chalk, fixed now though. A very very good route. Do it.

Works you all the way

Amazing, long, absorbing...

This is a fantastic warm-up, must remember it. Pretty restful, yet still warms you up nicely.

Long and super good. Pockets.

Added to the sneaker list, with Bo.

was very tired and sore when trying this one on TR, only give it one (Kalymnian) star but im not ...

Never too hard just long

In sneakers.

Good test on the onsight with a sequency crux

Fell on the crux! Damn slab!

Super punchy vertical wall. A real climb!

Amazing exposure!

Insanely good rock. With Lara.

2 definite cruxes. Sam loved it - "project for next time"

Only did the first pitch (6a+). Slab to overhung caves.

Two pitches linked = 45m

Great route on a miserable day :-)

Talked up in the guide and good climbing from halfway but to get there you have to pull in super ...

Epic journey. 40m. Hard, with one section which is hard and has a potential ledge fall (very un-K...

Talking in third person. Maybe im turning into a kalymnian local.

pack, sneakers etc to get to space terrace

Warm up - thanks Simon!

Gresham gold. Felt utterly impossible with no chalk. The dot follows white dots only.

Couple falls. Doable 2nd shot

Cragging with Emi. She liked it

STELLIOS is the man. He also owns the biggest and therefore best cat on the island. Legend!

Three year old bolts really rusted. Not good!!

Thumbs up from Emi.

nice with a surprisingly smooth top

Sneakers

L hand only in sneakers. Tried no hands, fell off and grazed my nipples.

Sharp coral.

nice n easy.. good to practice foot work

Sneakers. Getting shiny like glass.

couple of delicate moves

Quick sneaky ascent amidst the coaching. NOT a warmup.

With Owen.

seemed kind of hard

OMG Fantastic!!

With Owen. Delicate and technical. Bo flashed it handily afterwards.

In desperate need of a rebolt, then, classic status! One foot deep tufa fins.

Hah! What a sandbag. Should be 7a.

You're happily romping away and then Claire cuts loose on you. Beware, she's schizo. Should be 7a.

Completely petrified with a 46kg belayer..great route!

great thin climbing

Interesting crux

run out and sustained

With Lee. Surprisingly likeable for a slab

Really enjoyed it. Different style for slabs

Tricky number...

With Lee,. Bad route reading on my part. Zigged when I shoulda zagged

Repeat warm up

Love this climb!! plenty of spots for rest and didnt notice crux i was warned of?

Boring.

delicate feet, good hands, great cool down

Tricky start and a bit sharp.

Bloody shit!

this has 3 stars??? only did the first pitch but it was so bad! true it was still damp and wet fr...

1st pitch only, yuck - hope the rest was better?

Super kneebars, super enduro.

all planetary!

7c/c+. Amazing battle. Several cruxy sections between very good rests which may ruin your T-shirt.

Second shot, it was dry and favours the tall so why not.. I didn't mind this route because it for...

Worst house on the best street.

Straight back on it to clean it. Got a little higher clean than on the onsight attempt but not to...

Pumped out on the second last draw, may have had a better chance of onsighting if I had brought m...

The dot is back in the game. Nearly a massive choke at top....

Fuk yeh!! Such a cool crux....

Sweet tufa fun :) I really want this one onsight so I was hyped when I got through the crux to a ...

Waaay harder than DNA. A bit wandery and not as good either

More like caving than climbing. You can't really compare it to anything. My hardest OS on paper, ...

Cheater pads are the best!!

Need to get so much stronger, fitter and smarter to climb this route. A bit of a Dreamline projec...

Climbed to take a photo from the top, I was surprised that there was a couple of hard moves.

bottom slab is pus, leading to cool tufa climbing to the anchor

Did this three time today to access the upper pitch. Not to bad and very unique rock forms.

Not three stars but good fun if all the other routes are wet or busy. Its like climbing up a mass...

last move super powerful

Final day of climbing in Kaly -- in the rain :) Psyched to do this big bad roof second go despite...

Definitely worth going for the onsight. Trella's big brother.

Crazyness for a 7a

Repeat to put gear on and photo rope

A bit tricker then I was expecting for a warm up. Trying to avoid the big black wet tufa was prob...

Great, fun introduction to tufa climbing ... lots to learn!

pretty steep for a warm up but has super jugs :D

Another one that was a bit harder then I thought it would be. Quite sustained, I am not sure whic...

yeah, nice and pumpy, milk the little rest then blast to the chains.

Had to put shoes on. Dissapointing. It's called Kaly PIPE! Well, that's what I call it. You have ...

Just getting through the 6c+ first pitch was a relief. I'll take it as my second 26 onsight.

dangerous old bolt at crux-downclimbed and lowered

Getting through the sector.

Sustained big tufas

More wet action, for some reason I got scared up top with all the wet holds made it feel a lot ha...

Repeat. Better than carpe diem

My kalymnos dreams of tufa pulling madness have been dashed by all the rain in the last couple of...

Repeat. Should have taken notice how humid and greasy it was and just went home....

Super pumped. Needed to warm up more. Really cool but the anchors are really crap. Not sure if I ...

wow amazing route, got on this thinking mistakenly that it was a 7a+, probably a bit stout for fi...

One of my last to do on the sector. Hard start, then easy.

Pumpy steep start

Priapos warmup

Had to fight like a bugger. Super dooper long, almost 50m.

Lunge, delicate wall, tufa clasping, hold broke 1 move from top, this route had it all!

soft for b+. excellent climb though.

Got the send on the warm up, putting on the draws! And then had to do another lap to clean....

Too hot, too wet, too humid.... Not hard to climb... Just no gas in the tank... :(

Awesome route, not good as warm up though, it worked over. Very happy to bag this.

Really nice climbing... All on your legs! Haven't had a calf pump for years!!!

40m of tufas

6c into 7a+

worst bolts i have ever seen, even worse than mexico! top bolts rusted write through, DO NOT CLIM...

Wet flowstone

With extension

Thought of doing the second pitch but got halfway up and realized today wasn't going to be a clim...

I know I have been on this before, but which trip? Still sweet climbing.

One move knee bar, one move knee bar…

Quite wet, linked it with Lothar La

Short extension. Not 7b. 7a+ tops

A little wet at the start but not to hard. Wet tufa moves up top as well. The middle was dry :)

Cool funky moves on what looks like busted off holds.

Anchor broken, needs complete replacement.

Extension

Repeat in sneakers

Intricate slabbing

30m route with nice stalactites to start

Mr winky suggests paracetamol for cold and flu medication. Bless his cotton socks.

A great little compact route, a few different tufa styles and a sloppy finish. Good value.

Good!

Great climbing

Pumpy and fingery...and good!

Awesome climbing, exciting crimps finish

Awesome! Fun and funky tufa blobs. Easier than stein pilz.

Maybe a touch soft, but great climbing

grabbed the draws twice on this sharp nasty number, still a good route though

scary, sharp and hard for the grade

Wow, nails hard! First half was too easy so I knew something was coming. And then it didn't relen...

I have no recollection of this climb...but...apparently I liked it last time. Now?? Hmm, super po...

Alzheimer's onsite, 6 years has not been really kind to this route, starting to show a bit of polish

Nasty crux for the grade. Wowser!! Not a bad climb though. Very technical.

One wobbly moment on the mantle but nice climbing

Possibly the hardest 7a+ ive done in a along time? Super technical and thin and balancy... Pretty...

Sharp, but excellent moves, crux is quite in distinct not I climbed it the same way twice. 3rd shot.

Not as good as expected. Only 20m long.

Sam rocked it in sneakers.

im sure this climb would be nicer if it wasnt still damp. awkward moves

slab

slab

awkward slab. sandbagged

ugly clown of a climb

Nice climbing

Really cool. Different moves, a bit of crack climbing and a mini roof!

Cool moves, funky crack

Interesting.

Fun traverse slabbing

Repeat to try the extension.

A repeat to get to the extension

Hard, crimpy and cheesegratery. I kinda enjoyed it in a sick kinda way. Clean on 3rd attempt.

This did not extend my happiness :( sharp and nasty

An odd route

What? It counts!

the speedlink anchor (only 1) is at the 3rd hanger above the painted start of the extension, and ...

bailed at crux - slimy that day.

Interesting grey slab.

Old school 7a, and chossy. Needs traffic.

"mate, you chose one heavy-weight sand-bag for your last climb. That deadly move with the despera...

Got past the first crux and thought..I'm gonna onsight this because I never want to have to do th...

Sharp and painful at the bottom...

one of the few dry climbs on the crag. well.. mostly. a couple of splashy holds here and there!

Interesting when wet

Hardest onsight fight in ages. 45m pitch, epic. 23 clips, I had 18 draws.

Awesome climb really nice flow and nice and long

Another day searching for dry climbs! Bit damp but doable. Wanders into the next climb a bit. Har...

Still a project pump sets in quickly at the top...

Almost onsighted but fell just before the anchors... Got on again and fell at the same place. Mak...

Well, what can I say? Overhyped for starters, bloody Gresham. Secondly, there's a blank patch so ...

Feels like youve got nothing to hold onto and nothing to stand on, yet you stay on! Balancy!

Tufa fun.

with Bo

Wet rock extension. Hard start, then grade 16, then smack to the balls finale. Ouch.

Great technical face climbing.

7a in the new guide - felt harder. 6th climb of the day

Upgraded to 6b. Lots of it feels loose.

nice warm up for most

If in doubt run it out I say...

On of the best on Punter's Island. Think I missed something near the top, turned into draw skippi...

If only the rest of the climb was like the last 5 metres

I didn't enjoy it... Was having a shouldn't be climbing day though...

Really hard, especially when exhausted.

Cool groove on small pockets. Sam flashed it. Belayed Susy earlier in the trip.

super climb!

Bicepy, with a couple of good bars.

Fell on move to golf ball, struggled more on crux.

Getting the gear on. I was getting my foot to the other wall but couldn't transition.

Sure its ok, but nothing classic. Wet too.

Humid today so the one move crux was a bit soapy. Just adds to all the excitement!

Woohoo! New sequence worked a charm. Didn't even get pumped!

My sequence wasn't working with my left hand so changed it...

Went like a dream. First time on it that it hasn't been wet and spoogy. Makes all the difference!

:)

When this wall is dry its amazing....

A rare flash on an onsighting holiday. A bit of a weird climb this one with more then its share o...

Like the best route ever. the mantel, the mono, the undercuts... Life surely gets no better. Five...

Hell, I couldn't get past the first bolt of the extension. It was soapy, but still. Desperate.

Mmm This climbing is starting to get real polished, black slippy footers. Rad block orange wall r...

Wandery, pumpy, on perfect orange stone.

This cliff is either the best cliff in the world or a cliff drenched in olive oil. Unfortunately ...

Soapy conditions = virtually impossible. Dogged the shit out of it. Felt like 8b.

Sweet orange blocky climbing.. This part of the wall is super sweet. Top of the route is somewhat...

Don't try and climb in super humid and windless conditions... Super slippery

Oops! I accidently ticked thus in my 2010 trip when infact i had not completed or attempted this ...

A new kaly must. Sweet moves all the way to the top of the wall no really hard moves but constant...

Long and quite demanding in places. Easy start made hard trying to avoid the green wet messy.

Misread the sequence in the orange headwall.

My welcome to wet kalymnos.

Interesting warm up route, great climbing in the upper parts where up climb and bridge up a cool ...

you can't leave the island without experiencing the coral delights on this gem.

Fun with a few tricky spots.

Totally unique for Kalymnos. A big mountain route. Huge 30m flake.

super sandbag. stuck at crux between bolt 2 & 3

For Matt

fantastic! jug hauling crack and laybacking fun. just as the sun was setting

Awesome awesome warm up. Monos haha on 19's

sweet

horrible. hard for the grade and a real knee scraper.

also interesting

Texture that rivals bm in pain. Poets is a kalymnos mega crag... 12 stars!

This climb has about 2m's of worthwhile climbing.

Rope solo

35m mega pitch, love the long ones.

Scary hard at the start, really nice for the rest.

Super long finishing at top of cliff.

Committing! Awesome and slightly scary all the way. Really good.

The new one near Oh Brothers. A couple of cool moves on Vietnam-style limestone.

Something is dry. Its the grey stone we all love so much...

All class.

The limit of red duck onsight ability.

Mega for such a short route, I felt at home on this technical crimpy test piece. Climbs like a bl...

Repeat. Sneakers.

Awesome sharp pockets. Weird sequence up the top.

Bug, bush and slug free. This route begs to be summited by all.

nice, very easy and pleasant

Bit goey with the camera strapped on! I was going for it!

awesome, desperate climbing

Repeat. Sneakers.

Almost fell off this haha. Finger tips were destroyed. With sam.

Small holds, bit thin & techy. Soft touch at 6C! more like 6B+

Small holds! Soft touch at 6C! It's a thin, techy 6B+.

Had to find one more climb to log 400 new climbs for the year... This was it!

cool crimpy

thin and crimpy

6c in the new guide. Potentially the scariest thing I've done here! Thought I was coming off most...

Wore my old comfy, large, no edged shoes... Made it a bit more exciting!

There is a bug for multiple entries. No ability to put quality of route in. Good.

Good long wandery route that stay pretty Stustained between good jugs, grease cave half way up......

About as slippery as a Greek tradesmen. Ok.

Nice climb with only a couple of hard moves in the middle. There's a patch of brittle grey rock t...

Finally a route to bust some tendons on, and have a trulely great holiday...Nice pockets!

Not a bad little climb before lunch, the crux is a way cool sequence on little pockets and a vert...

really run out! not so good when the crux is wet.

Not a great idea as a warm up route ...

Tyranny of kalymnos...

From the third bolt on this route is plenty of fun. Great pockets and moves though a little reach...

Gaston the bowling ball!!

Sick biscuits, second shot today... Took a bit of a whip from the end of the crux first shot, sol...

Re-warm up lap, a couple of cool pocket problem sections but the ledges could be a problem if thi...

Surely climbing needs a purpose. Drill some pockets, sika some lovely edges, bolt some rocks on.....

The first half isn't that flash to the ledge just easy gery slab moves. From the half ledge is mu...

Cool exposure and feature. Single tufa climbing

Freakin nails in the sun, so stoked to onsight this mega tufa. I was WAAYYYY outta there!

Every minute matters.