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 […]
Category Archives: Leonidio
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. […]
Return trip to Mars
On arriving back at the campsite in Leonidio after our Kyparissi excursion we’d spotted a fellow GB plated campervan and were surprised to find that our friends Andy and Wendy […]
TheosÂ
Another gorgeous day with just a hint of a breeze to make some sunny climbing tolerable. Theos is a series of sectors running rightwards from Yellow Wall and making up […]
Hot RockÂ
Another one for a cooler day (I guess the clue’s in the name). Hot Rock is on the far left end of Kokkinovrachos, and accessed by an easy 10mins mostly […]
Skiadianiko
We’d gazed down on this major crag from the lofty viewpoint of Elona, a week or so earlier. Clearly in full sun with what looks like a major traipse. A […]
Mad Wall and Yellow WallÂ
With a big storm arriving just in time to force a much-needed rest-day, we seized the opportunity of the cloud cover the following day to visit one of the many […]
King of Thrones and Aresos
We’d heard good things about Sector King of Thrones, another shady option on what was forecast to be the last of the blazing hot days (27C), so we were quite […]
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