Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Greece-Kalymnos-Grand Grotto (Day 164)

We headed back up to the Grand Grotto.
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I got up on a warm up climb.
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We came up to the Grand Grotto for Anja to try to climb Trela a super long (40 m) 7a.  It was a real struggle but she fought through for the red point.
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I followed on top rope. 
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Ram wanted nothing to do with a 40 m climb but there was a nice short 7a+ just left of Trela.
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Since Ram had hung the draws, Anja headed up the climb too.
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After the Grotto we rented some motorbikes and headed up to the Cave climbing area to head down into a cave.
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We climbed down into the cave.
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And explored around.
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The cave was awesome.
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Anja found a big crystal and wanted to take it home but I had to tell her it would put our bags over weight on the plane.
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Nice pose window.
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We climbed out.
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We took a tour of the island on motorbike.
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We stopped by the hospital and said our goodbyes to Will as we were headed off to Athens the next day.  We had to hurry back to return the motorbikes.  I stopped at the hotel to drop Anja off and Ram went ahead to return his bike.  When I rode up to the bike shop, Ram and his bike were lying on the ground.  Ram had been kind of nervous about the motorbike riding so the whole time he rode behind me when he rode off in front of me he hit the gas.  He saw the motorbike shop and hit the brakes hard but opps he pulled the front brakes and was on the ground.
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Amazing sunsets for our last night.

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