Kalymnos Poets

Tie a knot in the end of your rope

The bowl shaped cliff between IANNIS and POET'S MAIN. Routes A13 to A23 are reached by a short scramble

Takes the left hand side of Coeur, after a short scramble to the base

Start as for y'a rien and move right

Climbs the right side of the cave with a difficult move over the lip followed by more delicate climbing

The route furthest right after the scramble

A lovely two pitch route going all the way to the top of the crag. Starts below and to the right of the bowl. The first pitch is a bit over 35m (6a), the second about 35m (5c+).

Just to the right of Propolis

Just right again

POETS MAIN CLIFF, LHS

About 50m to the right of Propolis, an easy scramble (3) leads to a lower off (belay) and above it the main pitch (7a)

The slab right of Minos

A few metres right of Minos, a 30m pitch up the obvious flake (6b+)

Two parts 6a+; 6c with the lower off before the extension just to the R of the bottom of the flake of Kavafis

A long route that can be split at half height (6c, 6b). If you do it as one pitch, 20 quickdraws required, and some of the lower ones need removing to reduce drag

Another "two pitcher" (6b+; 6c+) with an excellent 2nd part. It uses the lower off of Nathan Patro which is just below the roof

Climbs right of the white scar to a lower off below the roof

The first pitch is 40m 6b+, the 2nd 55m in total, 7b

renamed Wala Wala

The extension to Damocles, or is it Wala Wala? Either way an "out there" pitch up the overhanging arete

Starts up a short corner then more easily to a lower off under the overhanging corner

Climbs the overhanging corner

Always important. Starts up Harry Hole and moves right to climb the wall just right

Starts up Harry Hole and makes a traverse R to the roof where a difficult move leads to easier ground

Direct through the two roofs to the lower off of Rolling Stone

Starts right of Ca bruine, goes over the small roof, trends left and goes all the way to the larger roof

the extension to Scala Dream

POETS MAIN CLIFF

Broccoli and a bulge

A nice introduction to tufa climbing

A hard pull round the bulge then sustained but easier. Very nice climbing

Nice moves round the bulge then sustained on good holds. Excellent

A smooth wall followed by a lovely pocketed wall

Nice climbing between pockets

Nice moves on slippy holds

Technical slab

sustained, prickly, fingery climbing

pleasant climbing up the groove

fingery climbing, especially where it steepens

The wall just to the right of Ibria. Tricky, technical climbing, but only for a short section

The obvious corner

Just round the corner to the right of POETS MAIN

5 minutes up to the right of POET'S MAIN

ZEUS is reached by traversing 100m from the right hand end of Poets to a fence with a couple of gates that lead into a fig grove with sheep and goats in it

A long route to the left of James Blonde. 70m rope needed

The extension to James Blonde

The big long tufa, sustained balancy and technical climbing until the final clip at the lower off. In fact especially the final clip

An easy start, a boulder problem move and an absorbing finish