Mount Pendeli
(Northern Athens)
Run 1710 (Monday 6th September 2010)
Hare: Mad Dog  
                        
  Photographer: Mad Dog    
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The lat/lon coordinates of the starting point 
    & circle: 38° 3'39.02"N,   23°53'44.05"E     
    
  Altitude: 695 metres above sea level
Trail cartographic Length = 4.82 km

  Rotated 90 deg (North to the right)


Altitude profile of the run. 
  Nice easy downhill, a bugger uphill. 
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  Hashers circle-up before the run. 

Crossing the main road after completing the upper section of the run
Note - across the road & behind the trees is a popular spring
    where many people fill their water bottles to take home with them.
  

View of the dry mountainside - brown after August heatwaves >>>>>>>>
Near here are abandonded concrete plinths for campsites...
    
    Location:  
 38° 3'40.13"N,  23°54'3.31"E

Water from a mountain spring pours down the bank.
Location: 38° 3'36.36"N, 23°54'3.37"E
 
Close-up of mini-waterfall from photo above

The spring runs down the valley giving life to the plane trees

Here we climbed up from the corregated-iron roofed building to the road >>>>>>>

    
  Blow-up of 1 of 2 derelict army buildings on the mountainside from photo above.
Location: 38° 3'35.26"N, 23°54'1.83"E

  Rocky outcrop 

  Greenhouses in the valley

 


Junior School - Saint Marina and the 
    Parent's Association (named Thiseas) of the 
Saint Marina school....
...
Re-planted this area with new trees after the forest fire. 

Special roped-off areas of planted small trees and bushes on the mountainside

The sign says: "No Watering" & at the bottom "Experimental planting"
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The cheap Sherif souvlaki taverna in Paleo Pendeli.
    
  The meat is always good. 
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