I found it! Yay. Thr sector Anatoli turned out to be the first crag I looked at when we arrived at Karathona Beach but I dismissed it as looking too broken up and weedy.
Not so. The climbs are excellent from bottom to top. The bolting is superb. Very close spacing on every route so far. It wasn’t until I saw a Google Earth photo on another web site that I recognized the sector. We walked from Arvanitia Beach south along the wide, nearlly level and scenic promenade for about three kilometers and one hour. Just before arriving at the gate at the end of the walkway before Karathona Beach and the boat docks there is the remains of a narrow, concrete road. Step up onto the road and follow it to the second set of small, low cement blocks. I’m not sure what these are. I’ve set a cairn on the block. There is a trail. Follow cairns up to another concrete road. Follow the road. It will switch back to another cairn and the trail up to the crag. ” Sector Anatoli” is painted on a rock in the trail. The crag is in the sun all day. We have been leaving our stufio at 6:45, arriving at the base before 8:00. With this early start we can
get in four or five routes before it is too baking hot to take any more at 10:00. There are rows and rows of beehives near the base of the final trail. They caused no problem. However there is a border collie dog we think is there to guard the hives. We were very concerned at first when she approached us but were relieved to find that she is a total pussy cat. She wasn’t hungry but was terribly thirsty. Bring extra water.
Speaking of dogs. On the road up to the Karathona Walls there is a small ranch. There are at least five dogs here some of which are unleashed. Two came after us in spite of the workers on the ranch who made no effort to control the dogs. We had to run, with packs, the road to the chapel area. We worried all day about our return. We had to bushwhack a wide circle to avoid any encounter.
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