Greece mountains

"That was my long term running goal for training for a big expedition in the Alps on August! Killed my legs but I am very satisfied with the outcome! 16km continuous uphill running with 863m elevation gain in 1h58m!" - Pyrgari, Christos, Jun 24, 2018

"The third day of a four-day trek on the Olympos Massif, Macedonia, Northern Greece. From the Christos Kakkalos Refuge (Refuge 'C') (2650m) to Touba 2801m-c.90m and Profitis Ilias 2803m-c.94m via their cols, returning to Refuge 'C'. 250m of ascent and descent. 2hrs 0mins. After another rather restless night in our cramped quarters in Refuge 'C', I was up with the dawn, in time to see her light rose-tint the surrounding high peaks of the range. Stephani, the High Throne of Zeus, again dominated the scene, as it had done at dusk on the previous evening. These mountains have a truly numinous" - Touba, marktrengove, Sep 14, 2017

"Continuation of walk from Touba. I headed down to the Touba - Profitis Ilias col again, taking another GPS reading there. While by the refuge, I encountered three of our party, who were scaling these two peaks in reverse order to me. I followed a path which taversed on a gentle gradient up the south and east flanks of Profitis Ilias, then turning west to head more steeply up to the summit. I was soon there, and it was a very different place to the other summits I had visited on this trek. The area was enclosed by a curtain wall, with an underground chapel at its northern end. Bent doub" - Mount Olympus, Profitis Ilias, marktrengove, Sep 14, 2017

"The second day of a four-day trek on the Olympos Massif, Macedonia, Northern Greece. For more information on Mount Olympos, see at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus From the summit of Skala 2866m/20m to Mytikas 2918.8m/2355m, and return to Skala. Four of our group declined the option of the Grade 2 scramble to the summit, so Ivo our guide had four of us in his summit party. I was of two minds myself, as I am not a confident scrambler. However, I had wanted to climb to the summit of Mount Olympus since I was a boy, when my passion for Ancient Greece started. I had come a" - Mount Olympus, Mytikas Peak, marktrengove, Sep 13, 2017

"The second day of a four-day trek on the Olympos Massif, Macedonia, Northern Greece. From the summit of Skala 2866m/c.40m to Skolio 2911m/101m, then descent by its south-east ridge, then Zonaria path to Christos Kakkalos Refuge (Refuge 'C'). 6.0km. After a short rest on the summit of Skala, soaking up the view, our guide Ivo led those who had not summited Mytikas down by our outward route of ascent. The rest of us decided to do a round of the cwm, and to rejoin the others at the start of the Zonaria path which traverses below Mytikas and Stephani to the Plateau of the Muses. I was par" - Skolio, marktrengove, Sep 13, 2017