"A traverse of Oros Ainos, using the Atsoupades Trail, marked by a white square on yellow background. I was dropped off at the trail head in a quarry (at 38.16586N; 20.67513E) below the town of Digaleto by my wife in the hire car. The trail wound through the piles of limestone grit, and then through low cork oak woods, and up to a battered rest area at Karvounolakos (at 38.15661N; 20.66783E). There I joined a grit road south east over several kilometres, with only about 40 metres of ascent, to the next battered rest area at Pigadia (at 38.14995N; 20.68096E). From there the real climb began up the steep Kefalonian fir-clad slopes of the mountain, with the trail zig-zagging through the shady forest nearly all the way to the summit. Some 100 metres below the summit, I crossed a higher grit road, meeting the first people all-day who were taking the much shorter route from the car park at the end of the public access road. The trail emerged from the fir forest just short of the summit crest, and a brief ascent over limestone brought me onto the craggy summit of Megas Soros - the highest top on the mountain. This sported a large cairn, trig point with summit book in a metal case, an..." — marktrengove • Sep 20, 2021