Ascents in Kalymnos having Beta

dropped before anchor both attempts

Lang und schön

Am Ende wird's noch einmal spannend

Vor dem Umlenker abgegriffen

Book 6b+

Also: Pink Mist Ext 6a 20m Lead Onsight

First attempt to set draws

Beautiful sustained climbing to a strenuous crux. Then a bad sit-wrap-around rest, followed by a steep kneebar-assisted jug haul to the anchors Stoked that these first-try 5.12s are becoming a thing!!

New highpoint, well past half the climb! Linked it in 4 sections, including a super long one to the anchors. So pumped, everywhere, and especially in the calves. Felt like I was gonna puke from the pump!

My intro to MP. Little adventure that finished at 10pm

A bit of everything. Strong start to a good rest followed by a technical crux. Felt great to send

Actually a tricky 6c.

Thought this would go easily second go, then managed to stuff up the crux multiple times.

Soapy conditions but nice warm up.

Mega route. Crux is demanding and strong. Lots of good rests after the crux

Definitely needs more traffic

Needs more traffic

Physical, technical and exposed. One of the best at the grade

I set this as a toprope for Esau. Bouldery and short. Took out some rock pieces, so wear a helmet!

Right after setting the 6b+ for Esau, I headed to this one. I had eyed it when I was looking for climbs. Its chimney section looked so cool, so because we still had some time, I got on it. Hardish start, then techy climbing through most of the rest of the climb with stemmming, dropknees, and generally a lot more feet movement than hand movements. The end is pumpy. What a fantastic route!

What. An. Area. This area is pretty darn beautiful from the ride from Masouri, to the approach, to getting there, to the climbs. The sea is right there, blessing with its calming sounds and breezes this beaufully sculpted wavey limestone decorated by tufas, stalactites, and cauliflowers. The movement on this one flows very nicely. For me, the crimpy section in the middle is the crux, which I dispatched diligently. Very, very stoked for this one! The setting was inspiring for sure!

We woke up late and someone was already working on Aegialis, so I decided to get on this instead. Really cool, bouldery sequence on (at this point) slick crimps! I think I've lost some power from all the endurance climbing I've been doing. Enjoyed it a lot!

Rest day cameo. Excellent rock.

Lang, lang, lang, herrliche Kletterei

Unten Henkel oben Platte, tolle Route

Left: Megaburger 4c 18m Lead Onsight

One break

Polished. Bring a brush and be prepared to remove the excess chalk

Flowy straightforward climbing. I tried the extension which was not the aforementioned. It was sharp, cryptic, insecure, and just not what my body needed at that time, so I did what I don't do very often and bailed on it. Maybe another time

Pretty fun climbing on +/- a few degrees off vertical on long moves on pockets. Sequency and crimpy crux, but not too bad, maybe V3ish. Onsight was blown at the crux because of bad headspace and skin hurt. Rehearsed it and got it next go easily. Get on it!

Got on this the day after the Priapos send. Guess I was wrecked! Headspace and skin didn't help either. Bolts felt far away from each other. Skin hurt. I even somehow ended up with my foot full of bird poop. After I got to the chains after basically bolt-by-bolting this thing, I considered cleaning it, because it didn't feel like it could go this trip with the days I have left. I reasoned that I was just feeling bad, and that I should come try more rested and make up my mind then. This is gonna be a mega pumpfest from |-|311!

Silly mistake on the OS. Fantastic climbing with a crux that can be done multiple ways.

Excellent climbing

Mega warm up

Anchor placement (even though it has been lowered now) still disturbs the flow and character of the climb overall. Significantly harder and very awkward to clip anchor if you’re shorter.

Did some bizarre variation with Greek freak here

Short but fun

Nice extension to a nice route. A bit sharp.

Flowy first half. Second half is sharp, crimpy, but has its charm. Stoked to get it second go!