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2284 – The second day of the path clearing expedition. (part 2)
Four impressions of the first stretch of the coastal path between Vatopedi and Esfigmenou. Not too far from Vatopedi in a wooded bend an old drinking place for mules can be seen. The now dry well is a nice shaded … Continue reading
Posted in 02 Vatopedi, Trip 2023
Tagged fishing, FoMA, footpath, monopati, path clearing, Xerxes
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2281 – Athos pilgrimage 2023: members of the FoMA footpath clearing group
This year the Friends of Mount Athos (FoMA) organized a footpath clearing mission on the Holy Mountain. From Sunday 17th to Saturday the 30thSeptember the different teams split up and went to their locations in a number of monasteries, including … Continue reading
Posted in 02 Vatopedi, 05 Dionysiou, 09 Sografou, people, Trip 2023
Tagged FoMA, footpath, footpath team, kalderimi, monopati, path clearing, paths
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2277 – forest fire at Stavrós junction near Kerasia
Yesterday evening a fire broke out at a very remote point on Athos, near the junction called Stavrós, where the monopati from skiti Agia Anna and Lavra splits on goes up to the top of Mount Athos. The monks located … Continue reading
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Tagged Feast of Transfiguration, fire, fire brigade, forest fire, Kerasia, monopati, Stavrós, top mountain
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2269 – FoMA footpath team 2022 – part 3.02: the Ridge path above Vatopedi to Chera
In the second part of our clearing day on September 28th 2022 we made a classical mistake that often happens when hiking on Athos, by paying no attention while walking on a dirt road and missing a sign in the … Continue reading
Posted in 02 Vatopedi, nature, Trip 2022, walking
Tagged dirt roads, FoMA, monopati, signs
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2261 – a new site with routes for hikers on Mount Athos
Athos friend Vasílis found this new (since October 2022) and excellend site, agionorosroutes.blogspot.com, with 70 detailled walking routes on the Holy Mountain, shown in Google maps. All tracks can by seen with satellite images. The text is in Greek, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Google Earth, Google maps, hiking, kalderimi, monopati, paths, walking
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2252 – a You Tube footage of a hike between Simonos Petras and Grigoriou
Rafinos from Greece published this beautifil 8-minute video from his hike on July 5th 2022(?) between Simonos Petras and Grigoriou, in black and white and color, and with appropriate music in the background. Some of the shots were made by … Continue reading
Posted in 13 Simonos Petras, 17 Grigoriou, films, walking
Tagged drone, film, footpath, hiking, monopati, Wikiloc
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2141 – From Dionysiou to Paulou in summer and winter
In the summer of 2011 we walked from Dionysiou to Paulou. The other way around as my brother Wim has described in the previous post (2140). In the winter of 2015 my friend Bas and I, together with our sons, … Continue reading
Posted in 05 Dionysiou, 14 Paulou, trip 2011: Herman's group, trip 2015
Tagged bread, monopati, olives, snow, steep, tower, winter
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2140 – the hike from Agiou Paulou to Dionysiou
This is a relatively short hike, only 3,3 km long, that takes about 1 hour walking. The setting is beautiful: leaving the Agiou Paulou monastery, with the majestic marble pyramid shaped peak of Mount Athos behind it. At 8 o’clock … Continue reading
2121 – On our way to Lavra
A large proportion of the old monopati (footpath) and kalderimi (cobbled stone footpath) between Prodromou and Lavra still exists. It is situated a bit more uphill than the road. After the well the path descents to the new, concrete, road … Continue reading
