The Mountains of Greece - Trekking in the Pindhos Mountains

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August 2011

The Píndhos Range, Chapter 1, B: Mt Ghíona

page 43

Mílos – there is now a wooden picnic kiosk on the path. The spring has been piped down to the kiosk and the water gets unpleasantly hot in the exposed pipe. A pity but it is the only sure supply of water. From Mílos onwards the path has been cleared and widened.

page 45, top of page

The junction for the path to the refuge is now clearly marked by green E4 signs. It bears off to the R up a steep spur into the firs. It has been refashioned by machine which makes for a rather unnatural gradient. After about 1hr 15mins you emerge from the trees and come to another   new picnic kiosk just above trees, from where you can see the refuge to the N.

page 45, para 2

The secondary hut beside the refuge has gone. For water, continue 15mins along the path due N of the refuge,to a spring.

The Píndhos Range, Chapter 4, Route 17

Stage 2, page 148, para 5

THIS IS A CORRECTION TO THE ROUTE DESCRIBED

From the spring, continue up the track and, as you climb, you will see two farm buildings above you to the SW. About 12mins from the spring, the track turns sharply R and crosses a small stream bed. Immediately after, a very poor track bears off L (south). Continue straight on the better track for a few minutes and arrive at a fork. The L fork leads to the two farm buildings, which are now behind you. The clearer/better R fork continues to a building which is still out of sight, lying in a hollow due W of the Gréku spring.

Leave the track here and climb gently NW on grassy slopes towards a ridge. As you reach it, the solitary building in the hollow is now visible below you to your R. In front of you is a large rock-strewn bowl.

You will see two distinctive rock bands across the bowl and above you – the L one being lower than the R one. You need to pass above both bands.

Traverse to your L around the bowl, climbing gently to reach the L side of the lower rock band. Here there are faint traces of an old path. Follow these over the ‘top’ of the rock band, passing a prominent white boulder to your R.

At the top of the band are a couple of flat grassy areas. Cross these and follow the obvious zig-zags of an old path up to an obvious notch at the top of the ‘taller’ rock band above and to your R. At the notch (50mins) there is another flat grassy area which you cross.

Follow the remains of the old path which are fairly clear and head in a generally WNW direction, passing several more flat, grassy areas to reach a false col where the true col with a stone wind break comes into view. Continue along the path in a WNW direction to reach it (1hr 5mins from Gréku spring).

In addition, the author has redrafted some of the route information for Routes 1, 9, 17 and 19. In the main these represent fuller details for routes previously only sketched out as variants but which, because of various changes, mainly road-building, have turned out to be the best routes.

The new sections of route description can be downloaded as a PDF file by clicking here and will be incorporated in the next printing of this guide.