Mount Pendeli
(Northern Athens)

Run 1692 (Sunday 9th May 2010)

Hare: Mad Dog

Photographers: Prickly Bush & some from Mad Dog

 

 

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

- T H E     T R A I L -

The lat/lon coordinates of the starting point & circle: 38° 3'34.95"N, 23°53'22.68"E     

Altitude: 670 metres above sea level

Runners trail cartographic Length = 4.8 km

Walker trail cartographic Length = 1.00 km

Note: Cartographic length is like a plan view & does not
take into account the extra distance travelled due to the inclines.

 

The runner's trail

The runner's trail - altitude profile (> 200 metres range)

 

Walker's trail - up to the old marble quarry & beyond

Walker's trail - altitude profile ( > 60 metres range)

 

THE RUN

The GM calls the circle to order

 

Mad Dog the hare

 

The pre-circle

 

And they're off

 

Checking

 

 

 

 

Rear Entry offers help on a difficult descent

 

Mad Dog on a check

 

A view over Athens

 

On down

 

A wry smile from the hare. Perhaps the hounds are on a falsie

 

Only a few hashers waited at the view point

 

>>>>>Scroll Right>>>>>    Panoramic view from the viewpoint

 

Mountain flowers somehow surviving

 

Let's go this way

 

>>>>>> SCROLL RIGHT >>>>> Panoramic view - Note valley on left down which a small stream ran (see following pics)

 

Suprising presence of a stream & green vegetation located between the dry mountainsides

LOCATION:   38° 3'2.07"N, 23°53'16.10"E

 

Sparkling miniature waterfalls serenade the valley with their soft sounds

 

Tadpoles swim freely and unthreatened in the clear water....until...

 

The best place to be on a hot day

 

Further upstream rushes are growing & concealing the location of noisy nesting waterfowl

 

Wild flowers flourish here

 

Hashers at the oasis.

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCROLL RIGHT>>>>>>>>> Panoramic view looking back at the valley

 

Checking

 

On up the dried out gorge

 

and more up

 

...and then some more

 

Black Mamba leads the way

 

Exhausted hashers take a breather

 

THE CIRCLE

The circle

 

Clitoria strikes a pose

 

Clitoria saw a different kind of hare on the walk

 

A DIO for the Hare

 

Stress Cow tied in knots

 

Stress Cow hops in to the circle

 

Returnees Formosa Flyer and Stress Cow share a DIO

 

Flyer Rear Entry

 

Mountain Goat flying for Rear Entry

 

Who didn't wait at the view point

 

Clitoria has a quiet word with Napoleon Boney Part

 

Napoleon resists Clitoria's advances

 

Time to say au revoir to the Frenchies

 

Napoleon is awarded his 50 run badge and the first of the new mugs

 

Rim Job takes evasive action from Clitoria's onslaught

 

The Frenchies admire their leaving present........

 

... along with other hashers

 

Next weeks hare, Rear Entry

 

THE PICNIC

Clitoria holds court

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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