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!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

sujook!! that's how you should spell it cus that's how it sounds! how nostalgic those rocks look. it'll be fun to attempt them again. this time, i'll be able to withstand the pain from the shoes cus i'm getting used to it. stop picking on me, turdball! i know, i know, i'm a noob, so sue me! haha =P

is it Besto or Bestami?

EM said...

That bolt looks bomber!