Potůček brothers in Christmas Leonidio

My brother and I, as it is usual among climbers, went for climbing trip during Christmas holidays. The original plan was Spain. But it was decided to cancel it and Leonidio from Greece won. Both of us were in Greece for the first time, so expectations were not quite high, but Leonidio surprised us a lot.

Both in quantity and quality of the climbing itself. There are very frequent stalactites in most of the routes and therefore the concentration of knees is incredible. You can't do much without a kneepad, but it was an interesting change in the nature of the routes compared to other destinations we go to.

The difficulty of the routes in Leonidio ranges from the very easiest to 8c+ (the harder routes were then just a combination or project). Šimon had, I'd say, a very successful trip where he quickly climbed three 8c routes, a couple of 8b's and some OS/flashes in 8a grade.

From the hard ones, I only managed Scorpion Venom 8c and some of that 8b and 8a OS/flash. The big advantage is that the hard routes are still relatively new, and so unpolished. The downside, on the other hand, is that one occasionally breaks something off. All in all, it was a very nice trip and it certainly wasn't our last time in Greece

Štěpán Potůček

Leonidio 2024

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