Mid-September it was time for the yearly
Watson-Bacher climbing holiday. This year however we met up with our good friends Kili,
Anna, Reini and Tanja to spend 10 days on the beautiful island of Sardinia. First
stop was in Cala Gonone where we could not get enough climbing done and
therefore climbed 5 days in a row. The fourth day was Stew´s birthday where we
hired a boot from Cala Gonone to cross the sea to the amazing peak of Cala
Goloritze. Stew and I went on the classic multi-pitch route "Sole Incantatore", which felt rather
hard for me. However even if my toes killed me (climbing slabs in the sunshine)
all the pain was forgotten sitting on the peak and enjoying the view. I have to
admit sometimes in the wall I would of rather been in the beautiful turquoise water right
underneath me ;-). The day after we went in a climbing area called "Su Telargiu Oro" (according to us: The Czech-Crag) where there
were two enormous caves with steep tufa routes. It was a shame that we only
climbed here for one day because this was one of the coolest areas we went to,
however in the same evening we left for the south east side of Sardinia. After
a day of swimming and snorkelling we went for two days to the "Gutturu Cardaxius" canyon. I
enjoyed climbing on a wall named Banana Republic with steep, crimpy routes,
just how I like it. Then it was time to go back to Olbia to catch the ferry
back to Genua. This was my first time in Sardinia and beside the climbing on
the various kind of rock, I loved the time spent by the sea chilling, snorkelling and eating fresh fish under the Mediterranean sun.
