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Planning an October roadtrip to Greece for 10 days. Looking to climb at Varasova, Mytikas, Leonidio & Kyparissi.

I know there's two choices of guidebook for Leonidio & Kyparissi.

Can someone recommend which guidebook for Varasova & Mytikas? I saw there is a 'best of Greece sport climbing' - which seems to cover all 4 areas. Will it have enough info about Leonidio & Kyparissi, or should I definitely buy one of the specific guidebooks for those 2 areas?

Thanks

Also if anyone has any of these and is willing to sell

We managed an eight-week roadtrip to Greece using the Aris Greece Sport Climbing guide, so you should be fine for 10 days. Having said that, there has been a huge amount of development in Leonidio since it was published. You used to be able to get all the content on the Vertical Life app so you could go for a 1 month subscription?

Trip reports to dozens of crags across Greece, including the ones you mentioned, here:

https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/category/greece/

Enjoy! Cheers, Dom 

Just worth noting that to climb at Varasova you would need to cross the Rio-Antirio bridge which has a toll of about 15 euros each way for a car and about 24 euros for a campervan.  Particularly if you're in a van, it may be worth staying on the Peloponnese peninsula where there are loads of other crags - though the bridge is quite spectacular if you don't mind spashing out on the tolls.

Thanks Dom, will definitely have a read of those reports!

Thanks for letting me know, unfortunately we pretty much have to drive that way as we are picking my mate up from Preveza…

Well Varasova is a lovely spot, and as I said previously, the bridge crossing is quite spectacular.

You don't have to use the bridge, the road over the Corinth canal still exists!

We did a couple of tours of the Mainland a few years back, using Aris's guide - all really excellent venues and pretty quiet to deserted - I wrote an article about it at the time:

https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/destinations/greece_-_in_search_of_soli...

Chris

Highly recommend checking out the newly developed upper tier at Mytikas. Not in any guidebooks but the couple of routes we did were very high quality.

I have the old guide to Varasova, with all the gnarly long trad routes in it but missing some of the newer sport. Welcome to borrow - I'll DM you.

I don't have the Aris guide but have been searching for it for a while. If you do find a copy and don't want it after your trip I'll happily buy it off you!