Mount
Parnitha
The BAFI Refuge
Sunday 3rd March 2024 @ 11:00
Run #2232
Hare: Amawanka
Photos:
Mad Dog
AI Images: DALL-E3, Playground v2.5, POE Photo 4K
The hare
describes his trail to the runners and walkers while Bouboulina gets close
to hear him better
"It's
completely flat, no checks or false trails" he says,
untruthfully
ON-ON!
Runners Fair Cop, Jacket Off, Mountain Goat, Strawberry4Skin (and Mad Dog)
Runners
Rear Entry & son Lefteris
Flour
arrow laid over pine needles shows well
View of the burnt mountainside - slowly greening back from the fire in August 2023
View of the Hyatt Regency hotel & casino
Signs of Spring
Forest of antennas
Jacket Off on a check
Signs showing the Flabouri mountain refuge
Going down
Rear Entry & son Lefteris
Showing the beautiful pine forest
Katafygio
(meaning refuge, shelter, lodge) Flabouri >
& Koromilia <
Hare Amawanka gives the Victory sign
Mountainside
is steepening here
Mountain
Goat heads down the forest pathu
Flour arrow shows well on wet grass/moss
Moss-covered tree trunk
Runners stop for a group photo
Beer stop. The beer was heroically carried by the hare in his rucksack
Bouboulina with Rim Job and Le Freek Non Chic
The hare
on his check
Strawberry4Skin
ahead
S4S crosses a small stream
View from
the path
Crossing another stream
Flabouri and Bafi refuge signs
Starting the steep uphill climb to the Bafi refuge
Jacket Off looks out for Shoulder Boulder and Mazen who are somewhere below.
Up and up.
Stopping for a breather. Mountain Goat waves.
Rim Job, Mad Dog, Strawberry4Skin
Mountain Goat with GM Jacket Off
Runner's group
Mazen and Shoulder Boulder catch up with us
Panoramic
view - with Fair Cop climbing up the rocks on the left side of the photo
We climb up the steep slope to the Bafi refuge and meet the hare Amawanka waiting for us
Mad Dog and Fair Cop
Shoulder Boulder and Mazen
Walking through the visitors to Bafi drinking coffee and eating lunch
Back at the start, Lefteris helps father Rear Entry spray antiseptic on Mountain Goat's scratches
Hashers slowly gather for the circle
THE CIRCLE
Fair Cop stands in as RA
Amawanka, the hare's DIOThe
The returnees are called into the circle
Just Easy is back
New Boots mixes beer
Rear Entry in the circle
Le Freek Non Chic
Grand Master (GM) Jacket Off
Mountain Goat
Bouboulina
Just Easy
View on the drive down to the taverna
View on the way down to the taverna
THE TAVERNA
The Vlahos taverna
Hashers eating the starters
RUNNER'S TRAIL RECORDINGS
An altitude range of about 240 metres
Showing the Bafi and Flavouri mountain refuges and the Hyatt Regency hotel
The cable car and hotel & casino car park at the base of Mt. Parnitha
The cable car cabins passing each other
The Regency hotel & Casino Mont Parnes
MisDirections to this hash
Sunday 3rd March 2024 – 11am-ish
Run: 2232
Hare: Amaw*nka
Venue: Parnitha mountain – Bafi Refuge parking
On Inn: somewhere near somewhere….
[Note: Hare says he can offer 4 seats in his jalopy from Syngrou Fix metro station – contact him on the car pooling WA group]
MisDirections:
Take the long and windy road [with awesome views] up Parnitha to the top of the mountain and head for Bafi Mountain Refuge… meet in the parking lot before the refuge.
IF LOST - YOU ARE LOST - either go home or call someone who cares…
GPS: 38.168718, 23.726389
PLUS CODE: 5P9G+9H Acharnes, Greece
MAP
LINK: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aW5sDXLdzmmYVW398
Lost? Directionally Challenged?? Just plain gormless and stupid???
Call: ?? Amaw*nka 6942 564900
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