Lost treasure chest

The first ascent of the route “Lost treasure chest” (VI+, 360m) was realized on 17/6/2006 by D. Aivazidis - D. Mavropoulos.

The line is found at the area of the route “Michailidi - Trochani” but it begins several meters to the left of and higher than “Michailidi - Trochani”. Approaching the route from the campsite involves getting past the beginning of “Michailidi - Trochani” for about 100m and then going straight up on an easy slope, until an arid bole.

The route follows natural lines as it often passes by big and impressive caves of the crag. There is a possibility that after its 7th pitch the route coincides with an older one, which was opened up by P. Botinis - F. Galinos - D. Galanis in 1968. This possibility arises from the panorama of the crag that is published in a book of Tr. Adamakopoulos - V. Chatzirvasanis - P. Matsouka named “Roumeli’s mountains”. The problem is that the photo of the book is too faraway and too indistinguishable to tell for sure if it’s the same line or not.

The first repetition of the route was realized on 24/6/2006 by G. Voutyropoulos - E. Chrysadakou and K. Kardaras - I. Palapanoglou.

In general, the route is of average difficulty, equipped with permanent pros placed at the most difficult or very loose parts and the belays are already set up. There are some parts where climbers have to be careful, such as the vegetation after the 4th bolt of the 1st pitch, the dangerous loose rock between the 2nd and the 3rd bolt of the 3rd pitch, the vertical wood at the base of the dihedral of the 5th pitch and lastly the vegetation after the bolt of the 8th pitch. The big loose rock of the 3rd pitch must not be used as a handhold, although the traverse on the slab right underneath is quite difficult and only the handhold at the base of this rock might be safely used. The 4th and 5th pitches can be united in one.

A set of nuts, some medium friends and slings are necessary in order to repeat the route.

Returning is possible by abseiling down the same route with no problem at all, since all belays are equipped with rings. The 4th and 5th pitches together make a 45m abseil, while the abseil from R2 does not move toward R1 but straight down until a ring which is placed 47m lower, and from that point one more abseil of 40m leads to the ground. Alternatively, one can return by following the ridge to the right (east) for 15min until the hypsometric spot (little pole) and from there descend from the smooth slope, eastwards, until the dirt road above the sheepcote, in totally 1,5hr.