Leonidio – Hot Rock (at last!)
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 […]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Leonidio – Mignonette; multi-pitching on Kokkinovrachos
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 […]
Leonidio – Mars Landing and a Return to Normal Service on Sun Rock
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 […]
Leonidio – Twin Caves, and a day of belay bunnying
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 […]
Leonidio – More Theos Cave
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 / […]
Leonidio – Elona and very un-Sunny Rock
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” […]
Leonidio – Twin Caves
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 […]
Leonidio – Grande Cuckoo
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 […]
Leonidio – Montanejos Climbing Garden
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 […]
Leonidio – Love Ledge
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 […]
Leonidio – Skiadianiko
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. […]
Leonidio – RockSpot and Douvari, and SunRock 2019 is well and truly underway
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 […]
Leonidio – Bella Vista
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 […]
Leonidio – Theos Cave; The Place to Be!
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 […]
Leonidio – Cave of Panagia
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 – […]
Leonidio – Kokkinovrachos
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. […]
Zobolo East
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 […]
Zobolo multi-pitch adventuring
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 […]
Zobolo – Sector Aspra and some petrified trees
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 […]
Zobolo – the only way is up!
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 […]
