Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Olimpos Climbing Festival Oct.24-28, and sucuk!


kahvalti anyone?

Our bungalow hostess in the backround and her grandson waiting for a delicious orange from Bestami

Look like he got ahold of a piece of orange finally! Ahu on the left here, I think he learned the pinky finger trick from me!

Bestami did most of the hard climbing.... pretty much all the time. That just gave Ahu and I a chance to work some fun routes, mostly VI - VII+

Beautiful rocks.

Everywhere.

Bestami, "Ahh, sucuks...!"

Bestami, Ahu and I decided to find a secluded spot off the trails where no one, I mean no one, could even smell the sucuks! :)

Nearby wall filled with VIII and up routes.

Our wall a little bit of cool down before the beach

Another day of climbing, another lunch with... yum... sucuks! Oh, and a Robert Deniro look-a-like!

After lunch we decided to go for a dip in the Mediterranean, Ahu said "Cok guzel" I said "Cok soguk"

It just goes to prove that you don't have to ever worry about not finding a Canadian nearby, very good climbers they were!

Bestami sending something hard here, maybe VIII or VIII+, I can't recall.

On belay, off belay... ahhhhhhhhhhh. No worries Ahu has it under control.


Clip it Besto!

And of course I had to point out each and every SCARY bolt I found in Turkey. Here is a nice one bolted horizontally, sure to unthread the nut if you took a hard fall on this one! Yikes!!! And wow were there alot of bent hangers, I don't trust this Kong company... Fixe all the way!