Ascents in Datça as Flash

Very nice tour. The crux comes at the beginning. A good hand jam makes it easier, but also very painful. In the middle, we were surprised by a snake.

A good Warm Up

One of the best in Datça. Incredible line. For those savvy in slab/lightweight and strong at technical climbing, this might feel easy for the grade or even soft. For my 89 kg fat ass it felt every bit of 7a+, given that slab makes me feel like a bear on a unicycle.

There’s one glue-in, I think maybe the 3rd bolt in the final brown headwall above the anchors of the surrounding routes that is somewhat annoying to clip as you traverse out right. There’s also a decently-committing runout to the anchors (thankfully with a no-hands just before) on the final overhanging jug section, which IMHO cements its status as a über-classic. The fall seems clean, but I don’t recommend looking down 😅

Decent warmup

I read the stemming section extremely poorly and made it quite difficult, but I think there’s a lot of easier beta to be had with some practice. Killer kneebar rest before the final moves in the overhang! Felt a good bit harder than Cesme. Even tried the left extension, wow is that a tough boulder problem

A buffet of different climbing styles…beautiful warmup! The top is quite pumpy if you read it wrong.

Pleasant climbing with a super defined crux on imaginary holds. Thankfully the feet are workable. I seriously don’t know how I held on to those holds.

A 6b climb with a 7a crux move. Holds are decent but the feet are utter shit. Almost blew off. Terrible warmup.

Lovely! Beautiful texture for feet the entire way. I think it’s a bit easier if you are tall.

Some really fun tufa moves in the crux of this one

Really cool tufa climbing, had seen people on the first 5 bolts but onsighted all moves after that (draws were also up)

Pretty happy. Cool sequences! Definitely thought it was the 6a+ while climbing...

First climb to test out my hand. Avoided most downwards pulling...

Cool roofy section!

Very happy to still be able to climb a little

Great climbing! It was so cold i can't tell whether the rock is sharp or it was just icy..

Very cool sequences! Went pretty direct for the start bit instead of going right. Very glad to have commited at the top!

learning how to climb with stemming on water runnels.