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09/23/08. Hartetest (VI+, 4P) on Kumarieskopf
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7806-225x300.jpg)
Hartetest.
Next day we got on the Corner Of Madness but of course it started raining midway up the already-plenty-slick pitch 1. We bailed. The next day, more f…ing rain! Formations were totally socked in clouds. What a shitty weather pattern!
09/26/08. Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (VI, 6P) on Sourloti
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3887-225x300.jpg)
Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens.
Photos
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3666-768x1024.jpg)
I think this is the Moni Megalu Meteorou (monastery; Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3675-768x1024.jpg)
Starting up the first pitch of Hartetest…trying to see where that first bolt is (it was high for me; Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN0012-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley following pitch 1 of Hartetest (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7791-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley arriving at the first belay (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3688-768x1024.jpg)
Leading pitch 2 of Hartetest (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7801-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley on pitch 2 of Hartetest route with fall colors below (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7806-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley almost atop pitch 2 of Hartetest (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3695-768x1024.jpg)
Starting up pitch 3 (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN0022-768x1024.jpg)
Leading pitch 3 (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3711-1024x768.jpg)
Higher on the crux third pitch (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7812-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley topping out on pitch 3 (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7808-1024x768.jpg)
Views from Hartetest. Pillar Of Dreams route is visible in profile on the left (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3717-1024x768.jpg)
Leading the fourth and final pitch of Hartetest (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7821-1024x768.jpg)
Looking back at Shirley from the lead of pitch 4 (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7830-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley on the summit of Kumarieskopf after our climb of Hartetest…we’re searching for the raps. Turns out you rap the route (Sept. 2008).
![Kumarieskopf - Hartetest](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7831-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley rapping off Kumarieskopf after our climb of Hartetest (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3721-768x1024.jpg)
Hiking back under the impressive Holy Ghost Tower (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3725-1024x768.jpg)
More towers (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3665-1024x768.jpg)
Doupianifels (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3733-1024x768.jpg)
A closer look (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3753-768x1024.jpg)
Pitch 1 of Wahnsinnsverschneidung or Corner Of Madness route on Heiliger Geist before the rain started (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3784-768x1024.jpg)
And what is this?
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3787-768x1024.jpg)
This is where climbers who retrobolt existing lines are strung up and whipped in front of the whole village populace…don’t fuck with climbing ethics in Greece (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3790-1024x768.jpg)
A typical day during our two week stint in Meteora (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3791-768x1024.jpg)
What’s next (Sept. 2008)?
![Greece](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3795-1024x768.jpg)
An old church somewhere in Thessaly region of northern Greece (Sept. 2008).
![Greece](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3809-1024x768.jpg)
A rainy day road trip and a short hike in northern Greece (Thessaly; Sept. 2008).
![Greece](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3798-1024x768.jpg)
Pomegranate tree (Sept. 2008).
![Greece](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3804-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley enjoying our third (after drinking table wine & climbing) favorite activity in Greece (Sept. 2008).
![Greece](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3806-1024x768.jpg)
Greece (Sept. 2008).
![Greece](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3814-1024x768.jpg)
A traffic jam in northern Greece during one of our rainy day road trips (Sept 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3817-1024x768.jpg)
Meteora formations with a storm clearing (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3823-1024x768.jpg)
Some more dampness (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3832-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley at the base of the Doupiani Rock (Ostkante route follows the ridge in the foreground) in full lichen bloom following some days of rain (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3838-768x1024.jpg)
Pillar Of Dreams in a post rain bloom (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3783-1024x768.jpg)
A Meteora tower-top monastery. This (I believe) is Moni Agias Varvaras Rousanou…though I could very well be full of shit (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3764-1024x768.jpg)
Unknown climber on the opening pitch of Pillar Of Dreams on Heiliger Geist (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3770-768x1024.jpg)
Unknown climbers on the first pitch of Pillar Of Dreams (Sept. 2008).
![Meteora](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3776-768x1024.jpg)
Unknown climbers on the first pitch of Traumpfeiler (Pillar Of Dreams) on Heiliger Geist (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7936-768x1024.jpg)
An unknown climber nearing the top (pitch 2) of what is likely the Gordischer Knoten (VII-) on The Spindel formation. Not the line that we did (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3864-768x1024.jpg)
Starting up the first pitch of Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (VI, 6 pitches) on Sourloti (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN0004_2-768x1024.jpg)
Starting up Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens on Sourloti (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7839-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley following pitch 1 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN0007_2-768x1024.jpg)
Starting up pitch 2 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3865-768x1024.jpg)
Starting up pitch 2 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN0008_2-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley about to start up pitch 2 of Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7854-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley on pitch 2 of Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7863-768x1024.jpg)
Arriving at the second belay (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3872-768x1024.jpg)
Leading pitch 3 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7879-768x1024.jpg)
Topping out on pitch 3 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3874-768x1024.jpg)
Leading pitch 4 of Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3880-768x1024.jpg)
More pitch 4 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7903-768x1024.jpg)
Looking back towards wine and Greek salad lunch from high on Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens on Sourloti tower (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7901-768x1024.jpg)
Views from the route (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7891-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley on pitch 4 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7899-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley topping out on pitch 4 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3887-768x1024.jpg)
Starting up pitch 5 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3899-768x1024.jpg)
More pitch 5 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7905-1024x768.jpg)
Shirley starting pitch 5 (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7915-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley on pitch 5 of Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7917-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley arriving at the fifth belay (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCN3906-768x1024.jpg)
Leading the sixth and final pitch of Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7919-768x1024.jpg)
Looking back at Shirley at the fifth belay (Sept. 2008).
![Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens](https://chossclimbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_7929-768x1024.jpg)
Shirley arriving on the summit of Sourloti via the last pitch (#6) of Linie Des Fallenden Tropfens (Sept. 2008).
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