Photos from Kalymnos

Check out some photos from my trip to Kalymnos in September/October over at my flickr account.

Some previews:

From Kalymnos #3

Sorry about the total lack of updates from this years trip to Kalymnos. I’ve been busy doing everything else than sitting on my computer. Now we’re only a couple hours away from starting the trip back to Norway. It’s been a great month of climbing, and I’ll most likely come back some other time. I’ll try to post some pictures in a day or two!

From Kalymnos #2

A few more days have gone by and I’m still living the “hard” life at Kalymnos. We (as in Louis which I’m here with and myself) have been climbing today and we’ll go out again tomorrow. When tomorrow is at an end we have been here for a week and have climbed 5 days. We have done some very nice routes as well! I’ll include a tick list when I get home from this place for those who might be interested in that.

We have been bathing and swimming every day as well. It’s about 21 degress in the ocean here so it’s quite nice. It’s very refreshing to take a quick dip after climbing all day long. We are going out to eat today since we forgot to take anything out of the freezer yesterday.

You’ll hear from me later!

From Kalymnos

So, we’ve been here for a couple of days now. We arrived around 1800 on Sunday and didn’t do much that evening. The room we are staying in is not really that good. The “kitchen” is a small portable gadget with one plate to cook on and a fridge that barely works. Not too great if you want to make rice, sauce and some meat. We have been talking about looking for some other place to stay if there are better options regarding the kitchen around here. Since we’re staying here for over a month it would be nice to have a decent place to make some food.

Today we are having a resting day after a long climbing day yesterday. We went to the capitol of the island earlier today and picked up some food since there is no butcher shop around here. We also spent some hours sleeping in the sun on the beach after a short swim. It’s a hard life we are living here…

We are going to climb tomorrow and Thursday and we’ll rest on Friday again. I’ll write some more later and post some pictures as well. There won’t be too many pictures until some more of our friends arrive here. When it’s only the two of us climbing there is no opportunity to snap some photos as well.

Anyhoo, hope everyone back home is having as great a time as myself. Later everyone!

Soon off to Kalymnos

In about 4 days I will arrive at Kalymnos, Greece for a month of sport climbing together with a friend, and I’ll stay there until the 15th of October.

Our plan is to go climbing every other day. I wanted to bring my bike so I could get some mileage done on the non-climbing days but there was no room for it on the plane from Athens to Kalymnos (which is a smaller Propeller aircraft). I’ll probably try to do some swimming and hiking instead. I also have some plans to read some books while there. I’ll bring World Without End by Ken Follett and some other smaller books.

I’ll bring my camera and some lenses as well and I’ll hopefully be able to snap some nice climbing pictures (pictures from last year is available in this set over at flickr.com). The last couple of weeks some other guys will join us there so it’ll be easier to fix myself high up in some route and take some pictures of the other guys.

When I’m really bored (can’t really see how that will happen) I’ll probably get some coding done as well. :)

I’ll keep you all updated!

Photos from Kalymnos

Just made some of the photos from Kalymnos public over at my flickr page. Check them out!

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Photos from Alcatraz

Just made some of the photos I took when in San Francisco public. Check out the set of pictures from Alcatraz.

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Kalymnos – Day 9

Only two more days of climbing to go now! :(

Today I had a resting day which was quite nice actually. I picked up the scooter I have for the remaining days here and rode around the island all day long looking at some of the other small cities here.

I had lunch in a place called Vathi and then headed over to Pothia and walked around there for a while. A bit later I had a bath on a beach in Myrties. I stayed there for a couple of hours, reading and listening to some music. Very relaxing!

Not much else have happened here today actually. I guess thats what resting days are for, do as little as possible and just … rest. :)

Anyways, I’m off to bed.

Kalymnos – Day 8

Howdy! Just got back from a crag called Kalydna. We went up there around 0930 together with Ingrid from Vancouver. She is 63 and does allot of hiking so it’s pretty hard to follow her up the steep slopes towards the crags here. She has been climbing for 7-8 years and is pretty darn good as well. She mostly topropes, but pulls herself up routes up to 7a I think. Really inspiring.

We started the day doing two easy 6a+’s, Extra and Late Evening Light, which were both pretty nice. After that we did a 6c+ called Theodora and then a long 6c called Uschana. The last route of the day was a 6b+ called Kaly-Nikhla.

The climbing at Kalydna was a bit different from the other stuff we have done here. The wall is mostly vertical and the holds are much smaller. I tend to like this type of climbing because my fingers are quite strong after doing allot of bouldering. I struggled a bit with the 6c+ though. My arm kept cramping up and hurt allot more today than yesterday which was very annoying. I guess I’ll have to take a rest day tomorrow. I don’t really want it to get worse than this. I have a scooter tomorrow though so I can take a ride around the island looking at some other places as well. I guess it will be ok.

When traveling down here I managed to leave my iPod on so I haven’t been able to listen to any music until today. Ran from Vancouver had an iPod cable with him, so my iPod was charging while I was out climbing. I have really missed listening to some of my music here. The bars tend to play only 80s and early 90s rock hits that gets old rather quickly.

I guess I’ll go for a shower now and then out to get something to eat.

Kalymnos – Day 7

Hello again! Back at the apartment after some climbing! Starting to get a bit sore in my hands again! :(

Today we went back to a crag called Odyssey but instead of going to the same sector as last time we went up to some steeper stuff. The steeper climbs on Odyssey have less tufa than the stuff up at the Parnorama wall though. Anyways, most of the climbs look really good. We warmed up on a 6b+ that was nice, but a bit too sharp, and then moved over to a steep 6c with some tufas (names will come in a later post, don’t have enough energy to go fetch the guide book now). After the 6c with the tufas we did another 6c (which was really nice!) and then took a lunch break.

After the break we went further down the crag to finish the day on a 6c+ and a really steep 7a.

I was struggling with a sore arm today which was a bit annoying. Maybe I need another rest day. Since we have so few days left I’m not sure if I’ll waste a day for resting. We’ll see, if my arm is hurting tomorrow as well I might climb a few easy climbs instead.

Now it’s time for a nice shower and then off to grab something to eat.