The Wall Athens

Climbing at Athens was a challenge: finding a wall that was opened, and then the routes were quite hard. Or we did understand the system correctly..

Athens has a lot of climbing places: RockWay looked the best from the pictures (on holiday), then Rockway (on holiday), OKOA at the stadium, a climbing center and not clear if it was open. And climbing center The Wall, a bit further from the city but next to station Pallini. And a really nice climbing and bouldering place.

There are routes starting with 4/5a with white labels. A 'v' shape at the start with two labels, then every hold has a coloured label and a 'v' shape again at the end. The holds can be in any colour, so you really have to look ahead not to miss a hold. The label are either one colour or a colour with a stripe of another colour. We both took them to be white, but distinguishable because they are close to eachother. Which made some really hard routes.

The walls are diverse: overhang to roof and some parts artificial walls. Good fun! And we traversed quite a part of the top roping walls.

Nice atmosphere and friendly staff. I would not mind returning here.