Ano Melissia
(Northern Athens)
Run 1704 (Monday 26th July 2010)
Hare: Mad Dog
Photographer: Mad Dog
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- T H E T R A I L -
The lat/lon coordinates of the starting point
& circle: 38° 3'53.97"N, 23°50'31.57"E
Altitude: 356 metres above sea level
Trail cartographic Length = 5.5 km
The trail (from 2.6 km up)
The trail (from 15.2 km up)
Altitude graph for the run (vertical range 475 - 350 = 125 metres)
- T H E R U N -
Who was late & is seen here changing in his car?
Hashers gather by the Ano Melissia outdoor theatre
OK where are the blobs of flour marking the trail?
Sorry runners, today's heavy rainstorms seem to have washed them away?
Heading for dem dere hills
Oops, sorry hashers. This part of the trail was a dry riverbed yesterday.
Now what? Stress Cow ponders about the way across.
Stress Cow poses by the stream.
Note the water is stained brown with earth.
Since the forest fire here, the topsoil is washing off the hillsides.
Walking alongside the stream (the dryer option)
(The trail went along the middle of the river bed)
Crossing further upstream
The trail takes the hashers to a path leading to what was once lovely woodland
The trail leads across a fallen tree spanning the stream
Pea Shooter takes his turn to cross
Mountain Goat crosses back across the stream on the second fallen tree
The trail continues along by the river bed
Panoramic view panning round to the main peak of Mount Pendeli (1087 metres)
Reforestation effort (small pine trees + irrigation pipes) on the hillsides
The runners get a chance to stretch their legs
More evidence of the storm earlier in the day
Mad Dog says "how about that for a puddle?"
Panoramic view - decision time - easy way back or up and over the next hill.
Stress cow sensibly chooses down rather than up & we arrange to meet her at the bottom.
View of Mount Pendeli as the setting sun illuminates the peak
Panoramic view with setting sun - On On you bastards >>>>
An artistic "blow-up" from the last photo
(No applause required! Just send cheques and cash to the Mad Dog beer fund @..........)
On the way down - stepping over burnt logs and branches that have
been
pegged-down
after the last fire
to reduce topsoil erosion.
Roughly translates to "Drunk hashers are strongly
advised
not to drive along this bit of road"
Can this be Stress Cow actually running to join us?
Notice says - It is forbidden for animals to use this grass area.
Better move on hashers!
- T H E C I R C L E -
Circle get underway on the grass next to the outdoor theatre
Clitoria - self portrait
(See what happens when you give her a camera to hold!)
Clitoria takes a shot of Mountain Goat
The hare's DIO
Mountain Goat - a latecomer DIO
Our visitor & virgin hasher Brent (Pea Shooter's brother visiting
from Austin, Texas) sportily demonstrates 'Shot gunning' a beer
Down it goes! You just have to open your throat and
let the beer pour down
as there's no stopping it!
Scrubber gets one for not using Clitoria's hash name in the circle
DIO's for the First Back offense - apparently a tie between Black Mamba
and Mountain Goat
Stress Cow
Clitoria (as Virgin Inspector) checks out our virgin hasher and asks the 1,2,3 ... &
Oh - Mountain Goat wants the dreaded 4th question
A very inventive answer to the last question. Bravo!
Kum Kwik adds in his interpretation
DIO for the virgin hasher
- T H E O N - O N -
BBQ time at Mad Dog & Doggie Style's kennels - just up the road from the open-air theatre.
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