Still living the Kalymnos dream. On another rest day I joined Tobi and Eric on a hike. The goal was to get to the tallest point on the island. After many hours of hiking, we settled for a smaller peak that probably had equally great views. A worthy rest day activity indeed.
The next day, the three of us had big plans in the big cave. I managed an onsight of the super fun 40 meter 5.11d, Trela. Here in the top left of the image, if you squint enough, you can see Tobi making his way through the last section of the climb. Stellar route!
While Tobi and Eric were resting before giving it a second attempt, I hopped on a 5.12c variation of a climb that I onsighted last week. The variation totally smacked me as I was unable to make the huge move off a small crimp. I admitted defeat and just climbed the original version of the route.
Here's Eric giving Trela another go.
We then hiked over to another wall to get on a 5.12c called The Craic. I had tried it last week and made it up with 4 hangs as I pieced together the crux section. Only slight progress was made as I made it to the top in only 3 hangs this time. A worthy project indeed.
That night was one of the best sunsets I've seen on the island thus far.
The next day, every part of my body was sore and stiff. Unfortunately Tobi and Eric were meeting up with some other friends from Germany. Fortunately I met Susanne, a girl from Germany who was looking for climbing partners. We headed to a wall with lots of easier routes on it, given that she's fairly new to leading outside and I was fairly certain my body was rejecting the idea of trying to climb hard. Some heavy clouds and intermittent sprinkling kept it quite cold that day, but we had a great time regardless.
We climbed together again the next day and I jumped on some amazingly fun and technical 5.11s that were friendlier on the muscles. Today I'm taking a rest day in hopes of trying hard tomorrow. Only 5 more days before I'm on a ferry to Athens then a flight to Portugal!
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