Mount Pendeli
(Northern Athens)

- Ancient Marble Quarries-

Run 1610 (Sunday 26th October 2008)

Hare: Mad Dog

Photographer: Mad Dog & Prickly Bush

NOTE: Use the horizontal scroll bar (bottom of screen) to view the panoramic photos.

 

- T H E     T R A I L -

The starting point & circle:
Latitude 38 04' 40.08'' North
Longitude 23 52' 48.55'' East
Altitude: 953 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 6.2 km

Parthenon (Elgin) marble quarries at Q1,2,3

(Quarry Q1 located at 38 04' 32.81'' N, 23 53' 07.72'' E )

 



3D View of the trail

Altitude profile of the trail (in metres)

NOTE: Compare Mount Pendeli's height of 1,109 metres (3,638 ft)
with that of Mount Snowdon, Great Britain's highest mountain south of the
Scottish Highlands with a height of just 1,085 metres (3,560 ft).

 

- T H E     R U N -

A chilly pre-circle

 

Has Mad Dog lost his marbles! If they're not in his pockets he might find them in the quarry



Northernmost quarry (Q1)

The 3 quarries shown above and below were created 2,500 years ago
to provide marble for the Parthenon's 160 metre-long inner frieze.

 



Centre Quarry (Q2)

 



Southernmost Quarry (Q3)

 

Ancient quarrymen's tool marks in the southernmost Quarry (Q3)

 

Floppy Dick atop the marble quarry

 

Hashers gather in the marble quarry

 

Mad Dog surveys a quarry

 

Mountain Goat and Black Mamba struggle uphill

 

Floppy Dick, Julia and Yiannis sprint to the finish

 

Coke Dealer poses for the camera

 

Hashers making their way to the top section of the trail

 


Panoramic view looking south over Athens

 


Panoramic view looking north over the modern quarry and towards Dionysos

Coke Dealer on the very windy edge of the modern quarry

 

Why did Coke Dealer and Mad Dog take so long-
to check out the porn in the workmens hut?

 

- T H E     C I R C L E -

The circle begins

 

Fair Cop begins the proceedings

 

The hare, Mad Dog, after much discussion is awarded 6.9

 

FRB, Floppy Dick

 

Returnee Sara, daughter of Spazmodic

 

Porn perverts Mad Dog and Coke Dealer are awarded a DIO

 

Yiannis, next week's hare promises a hard run
-in preparation for the Athens Marathon 10 km run

 

Mountain Goat asks the virgin hasher inappropriate questions

 

Clitoria the essence of etiquette puts a stop to his nonesense

 

Doggie Style made virgin hasher Faneia come

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES

To save a photo to your disk drive:
 - Internet Explorer - Netscape Navigator - Opera -

(1) Right-click your mouse on the photo
(2) A menu appears
(3) Click on "Save Picture As" (or "Save Image")
(4) Pull-down the "Save In" menu (click the down-arrow)
(5) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose a drive)
(6) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable)
(7) Type in a File name of your choice for the picture
(8) Click Save

To send the photo by e-mail as an attachment:
- Outlook Express -

(1) Click the "Create Mail" button to start a new e-mail
(2) Click Insert > File Attachment
(3) Pull-down the "Look In" menu (click the down arrow)
(4) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose the drive)
(5) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable)
(6) Click on the photo file name to highlight it
(7) Click "Attach" to attach the photo to the e-mail

                                                                        MD Feb. 2006



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