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Monthly Archives: February 2019

Leonidio – Hot Rock (at last!)

February 28, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

The sun has well and truly got its hat back on now! SunRock indeed 🙂 Troughton team selfie at the campsite ahead of Tash’s last day Back to Twin Caves […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019, Uncategorized

Leonidio – Mignonette; multi-pitching on Kokkinovrachos

February 27, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Warm, sunny intervals and possible showers – a bit of everything today, and teams headed to Panagia, Theos and Mars. After a tough 4 days, Jake was keen for a […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019, Uncategorized

Leonidio – Mars Landing and a Return to Normal Service on Sun Rock

February 26, 2019by Dominic 2 Comments

After three chilly days, normal “Sun Rock service” was finally resumed – just in time to avoid the worst of the mutiny! Big teams at Red Rock and Skiadianiko made […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Twin Caves, and a day of belay bunnying

February 26, 2019by Dominic 1 Comment

Another chilly day, 8C max, but at least it was dry. Reports from Bill and Barbara, back from a foray over the hill, indicated the snowploughs had been out! News […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – More Theos Cave

February 24, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

With Saturday’s deluge behind us, it was still pretty chilly and some early drizzle had us wandering up to the crag around noon. Surprisingly, the whole of the Theos / […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Elona and very un-Sunny Rock

February 23, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

The forecasts had been promising a grim start to the final week of SunRock 2019, with various doom-laden projections including inches of rain and even snow. In fairness, the “official” […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Twin Caves

February 22, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Parking at the 9th hairpin out of town you’re at over 400m (the crag’s at 470m) which is why we were in the snow when Jim and I made our […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Grande Cuckoo

February 21, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Another small sector with a decent mix of grades from 6a to 7a situated a few minutes above the Elona road. Ignore the instructions to park 400m beyond the hairpin […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Montanejos Climbing Garden

February 20, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Good drying weather and wilting arms provided the perfect conditions to get a month’s washing done and have a lazy start… … before heading to the crag. We’d nipped to […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Love Ledge

February 19, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

This is a newly developed sector on the Theos escarpment, another couple of hundred metres beyond Theos Right (along and gently DOWNWARDS. which isn’t completely obvious from the guide). You […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Skiadianiko

February 18, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

We’d visited this crag on our last trip in the hope that the altitude plus the curved nature of the crag might provide enough shade and relief from the heat. […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – RockSpot and Douvari, and SunRock 2019 is well and truly underway

February 17, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Although the keen team and overlanders have been here for almost a week, the “official” Rucksack Club SunRock meet actually started on Saturday, though clearly I’d forgotten to book the […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Bella Vista

February 15, 2019by Dominic 2 Comments

This new crag has been developed by a German couple since the last guide, and is set fairly high above the road to Elona (the guide says an elevation gain […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Theos Cave; The Place to Be!

February 14, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Wednesday was a day to forget from a climbing point of view – torrential rain was only interrupted towards late afternoon when it turned to snow! In fairness, Jim and […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019, Uncategorized

Leonidio – Cave of Panagia

February 12, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

We’d explored a couple of the sectors on the big yellow wall that overlooks the Leonidio valley nearest the coast, above the road to Athens on our last trip – […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Kokkinovrachos

February 11, 2019by Dominic 2 Comments

After another circuitous drive up the “Peloponnes forefinger” and over the mountains from Sparta, we’re back in Leonidio – familiar territory from our 2017 trip it feels like coming home. […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Zobolo East

February 10, 2019by Dominic 1 Comment

The crag just keeps on giving… As well as the imposing main face that overlooks the parking area, there’s a bit round the corner that faces east and so enjoys […]

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Campervan Stopover, Greece, Peloponnese

Zobolo multi-pitch adventuring

February 9, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

The left hand side of the crag – the imaginatively named “West Zobolo” reaches a height of around 150m and is home to 5 multi-pitch routes. Today’s combination of lighter […]

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Greece, Peloponnese

Zobolo – Sector Aspra and some petrified trees

February 8, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Started off chilly so we had a mooch down to the coast to check out Zobolo’s other major attraction (in addition to the very fine crag and aforementioned most southerly […]

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Greece, Peloponnese

Zobolo – the only way is up!

February 7, 2019by Dominic 1 Comment

The Vatiko peninsula at the bottom end of the “forefinger” of the Peloponnese marks the southernmost point of mainland Europe (according to the guidebook – a bit more analysis suggests […]

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Greece, Peloponnese

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