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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 3, 2007 - 10:55pm PT
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The surrounding Kastraki neighborhood:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 3, 2007 - 11:05pm PT
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murcy
climber
San Fran Cisco
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tarbuster for tsar!!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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i'm satiated, for now, soon to be desirous of cobbles in the not to distant future. Good thing for Pinnacles.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Wonderful pictures and story, Roy.
Now, I really want to go there,too.
Europe alone has enough interesting mountains and crags for a lifetime.
Rick
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Rich adventures + keeping longterm friends, signs of life lived well.
I've totally got into your habit of taking pictures at tables. Wish I'd started that 40 years back!
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Tarbuster,
Very nice! A dream really. Greek Godesses, mythical awe inspiring towers to climb, history, a repreve from Bushland with nice Mediterranians. What more could anyone ask?
I've never been to Greece, I should go with my family sometime, that is if I not on the the no-fly list. Who knows? I haven't flown in a while.
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FeelioBabar
climber
Sneaking up behind you...
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Great stuff! Keep it coming!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2007 - 09:31pm PT
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This is The Sourlotis, seen from Kastraki:
( A tour de force Heinz Zak route, Thessaly Sound Barrier, is straight in view, right of center)
So the next good route and entertainment we sought, South Face of Sourlotis, Line of the Falling Drop,
The route followas a brilliant line of steep slabs, progressing on wonderful knobs & cobbles:
(climbers top center)
(photo Dieder Hasse)
Tarbuster, lashed in and cobbled up:
Casual cobble walking & 5.10 slab climbing at its best:
(photo Dieder Hasse)
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Bump.
How did I miss this gem?
Tar,
Do you still keep in touch with Jane?
Prod.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2007 - 02:14pm PT
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Yes I do Prod,
At the end of most every work week, they host "Friday Night Follies" at their pad, which consists of loud music, beer, wine, martinis, grilling, dancing...
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handsome B
Gym climber
SL,UT
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Yowza! What a great tour, thanks!
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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They live in Boulder now?
Prod.
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s_mestdagh
Trad climber
Between Boulder & Crestone, CO
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Hah! This Dieder Hasse photo looked very familiar so I called my wife, Mia over. I asked who is that? She said Bärbel Schmidt. Bärbel hooked up with my wife when my wife was growing up in Berchtesgaden and learning to climb. Anyway Bärbel is still around. She is in her late 60s now - living in Bad Reichenhall, still hiking and climbing!
Mia emailed a link to this page over to her. She won't understand everything of this thread but she'll enjoy seeing herself on the internet.
Tarbuster, thanks for the great post and pictures!
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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totally sweet (as usual) tarbuster ! add another place to the dream ticklist for sure...
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2007 - 11:32pm PT
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s_mestdagh!
How fun that you identified the woman in Dieder Hasse's photo.
Hasse really captures the Meteora Experience and his productivity there would seem unsurpassed.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2007 - 12:08am PT
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Kastraki abounds in hospitality and the Taverna (bar) was a popular haunt:
These guys cooked many of our meals, on the right is young Vangelis.
When it came time to go, I left him my rope and I've since heard he became quite the climber:
French guy on the left and one of my partners Martin, from Vienna on the right:
The French guy was, among other things, a freelance tandem para glider pilot.
He had promised Jane a ride up with him so when that day came, Micha and I found ourselves helping him to secure the craft’s “wings” to the ground, by placing golf ball sized pebbles onto the fabric to keep the thing from getting drug away in the winds.
As we were instructed to hurriedly lay out the pebbles, busily trapping the billowing nylon and keeping it from prematurely being drug over a cliff, we glanced sideways at each other, no words needed; we thought this scheme was nuts and we alternately glanced over at Jane, who seemed nonplussed and firmly intent on seeing this thing happen.
The two of them got all strapped in and I don’t know what happened with all the rocks, but they caught the wind and were out of there, over the edge they went and quickly spiraled up over our heads. Seemingly within an instant Frenchie & Jane must have been several hundred feet above, but we could tell she was having the time of her life, transfixed and awestruck; she just hung from the harness like a rag doll, staring down in wonderment.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2007 - 12:17am PT
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When guys go out for a day on the cobbles, it’s good if they don’t take themselves too seriously!
(As long as they don’t rattle off the holds from laughing at one another).
On this particular day, we climbed a most enthralling chimney line on Archimedes:
The position was spectacular. In order to start the climb you scramble into the bowels of the rock about half a rope length and then begin making upward progress out towards the sky above a bombay flair:
(photo Dieder Hasse)
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2007 - 12:32am PT
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For my last climb in Meteora, Jane and I made an ascent of a route called Drop of the Vulture. This was a superb three pitch route. The first pitch was much like a Tuolumne Meadows slab: the rock was flint hard and the cobbles were very small, which makes them more secure.
While the technical crux may have been the slab climbing below, what clings to my memory most is the upper head wall pitch, a dead vertical section of climbing up through a large chute, progressing on football and watermelon size cobbles. These features had to be stemmed and this activity gave a precarious feeling similar to that of ice climbing, because the holds themselves put the body so far out from the rock.
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