German Cemetery
Dionysos, Northern Athens
 
Run 1723 (Sunday 5th December 2010)

Hare: Mad Dog

Photographer: Mad Dog

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

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The starting point & circle (P): 38° 5'24.74"N, 23°54'59.66"E

Altitude: 350 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 6.2 km

The trail from 2.1 km up

 

The trail from 12 km up

Altitude profile of the trail - showing a vertical range of 120 m

- T H E     R U N -

Runners & Walkers

 

The Walkers

 

The runners set off

 

Black Mamba follows the trail

 

The trail leads along a long-abandonded and now rough road

 

Black Mamba

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Panoramic view - On the left - across to the distant Island of Evia

 

OnOn

 

The hare Mad Dog - with the Dionysos Marble Quarry in the background

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Panoramic view of the Dionysos Marble Quarry & the trail

 

Satellite image of the marble quarry - showing the view from the trail

 

A closer satellite view. The huge size of the cuttings can be realised from the tiny size of the buildings

 

Huge openings in the marble face lead inside the mountain where further quarrying is being carried out

 

A closer view of the openings allows a view inside

 

       

Wow!! That's huge!!!

 

Some of the quarry equipment for crushing marble and storing the chips and dust

 

Great views from opposite the marble quarry

 

OnOn hashers

 

The mountainsides are slowly recovering after the fires.of 1995 & 1998

 

The hashers run over a mountain stream

 

The stream crossing the path

 

The German Cemetery

 

The cemetery public toilet - one of only a few public toilets in Greece

 

Outside the main gate

 

Inside the cemetery - beautifully maintained

 

One section of names

 

Sign inside the cemetery. Mostly German companies helped the restoration after the fires.

 

- T H E     C I R C L E -

   

The hare Mad Dog

 

       

Mountain Goat

 

Black Mamba

 

 

View of the circle

 

Doggie Style poured the beers

 

     

Bouboulina

 

RA Fair Cop dips Clitoria's 350 run badge in her beer

 

And sticks it on her head as is our tradition

 

Oop's it's falling off her head.

 

Is that mulitasking?

 

Stress Cow steals her badge

 

Badge stealing DIO for Stress Cow

 

   

Hamish McTavish Esq.

 

Mountain Goat is given his 10km Marathon package
he was too late to collect on 31st October.

 

The hash never forgets!

 

And finally, Fair Cop gives himself a DIO

 

- T H E     T A V E R N A -

Lovely, tender roast pork (1.2 kilo) + starters, beer & wine for Euro 14.00 each

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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