Ano Melissia
(Northern Athens)


Run 1772 (Sunday 5th February 2012)

Hare: Mad Dog

Photographers: Mad Dog + Fair Cop & Rear Entry


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


- T H E     T R A I L -

The starting point & circle (P):  

GPS:  38° 03' 54.41" N, 23° 50' 31.94" E   -or-  38° 03.907' N, 23° 50.532' E

Altitude: 358 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 5.25 km



The trail from 2.00 km altitude

 

Altitude profile of the trail (showing a vertical range of about 120 metres)

Almost all uphill for the first half of the run.

 

From 6 km up

 

From 30 km up

 

The walker's trail (mostly paved with a little cross country - crossing the dry river bed)

 

- T H E     R U N -

Pre-run gathering at the Ano Melissia outdoor theatre

 

The trail leads directly up hill & keeps going up

 

Rural scene with a large cockerel in the background

 

On up between stone-clad buildings

 

At last! Heading for open hillside

 

Hare Mad Dog and one of his checks

 

Rocket Socket carries the hash horn

 

Back to the streets. Mountain Goat and Rear Entry come screaming round a corner.

 

Runners and walkers meet as planned

 

Heading for the hills again. Is the trail finally going country?

 

Rim Job and Rocket Socket at a check

 

Ah! This looks more like it!

 

Runners stretch their legs in a downhill section (centre)

 

Now for some jolly obstacles

 

Trees burnt in the forest fire and later blown over in a violent storm

 

Checking! Fair Cop decides to check down the steep slope

 

Yes! Thats the trail!

 

Now the blue flour leads the pack along a dry river bed

 

More dry river bed.

 

Mad Dog smiles (there's more to come)

 

Bee hives on the hillside.

Melissia (meaning a bee area) was once well known for it's hives and fragrant pine-tree honey.

 

Cutting through private land often requires crawling under fences

 

Fair Cop comes through backwards and almost loses his balance

 

Mad Dog ducks under

 

Rim Job backs through

 

Charging through another private plot in the Luxury Villa area bordering Kifissia

 

The top of the hill in the private plot & almost at the end of the run

 

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Mad Dog blows the hash bugle in the outdoor theatre signalling the start of the circle

 

Fair Cop opens the circle

 

Now that's a REAL circle!

 

The hare's down-down - but wait - Doggy Style lead the walkers

 

So a combined hare's down-down

 

Brr! That beer's really cold! It's been stored outside during the recent snow.

 

Fair Cop awards Rocket Socket and OTIS their Virgin Hare T-shirts for their Papagou run

 

RS & OTIS with their virgin-hare T's

 

Kum Kwik and Scrubber

 

Fair Cop

 

Fair Cop and Clitoria

 

Mountain Goat

 

Rear Entry with Mountain Goat

 

Mad Dog

 

Rim Job

 

Kum Kwik

 

Doggies in the park next to the theatre

 

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Magginas meat Taverna - Doggie Style poses outside

 

Hashers enjoy the meal and wine + beer

Good value at 12.50 euro pp

Meal included: Starters, salad, kokkoretsi, pork chops, bbq chicken thighs, etc &drinks -plus- complementary sweet course

 

Magginas card - front

 

Rear of card

 

Magginas Flyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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