Varibobi
(North-West of Athens)

Run 1738 (Sunday 20th March 2011)

Hare: Mountain Goat

Photographer: Mad Dog

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NOTE2: The Lat. & Lon. coords can be copied and pasted into the Google Earth 'Fly-to' window.

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The starting point & circle (P):   38° 9'48.83"N, 23°47'22.30"E

Altitude: 545 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 8.6 km

 

The trail from 4.8km up. North is to the right. The trail progressed clockwise up to the peak shown on the right.

The section from the Fountain to the first check (yellow circle) is estimated as no satellite signals were received in this section.

The parking and circle were at the Fountain area shown on the left

 

Altitude profile of the run. The vertical range was from 545m to 825m   i.e. 280m

The first 0.9 km was not recorded due to lack of satellite signal.

 

The peak - from 3.2km up

 

View of the Peak as seen later from the taverna

 

The trail from 15km up. North is Up.

The 4th Century BC signal tower on the peak had a view of both the sea at Marathon (enemy ships) and of Athens (to warn the city)

 

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Ancient steps cut into the rock

Location: 38°11'3.69"N, 23°47'1.52"E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remains of the 4th Century BC Signal Tower

Note the large precisely carved stone blocks.

Location: 38°11'3.52"N, 23°47'11.05"E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scout Hut

Location: 38°10'55.62"N, 23°47'29.87"E

 

 

 

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The Lambros Taverna - about 3.5 km further up the road -on the right (down past another Taverna)

Location: 38°11'21.62"N, 23°47'12.81"E

One of the Taverna cats

 

The Lambros Taverna business card

 

Map showing location of the Taverna (red X)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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