Photos: Mad Dog and Tender Vittles
THE PRE-RUN CIRCLE
THE WALK AND RUN
This is a new area for the Athens Hash so there are extra countryside photos
Runners and walkers set off
Spring flowers
Here come the walkers
Coke Alone at a check
We come to a brook with stepping stones
The stepping stones are wet and wobbly so the walkers turn back
We come
across the first check dam in this valley
(Check dams slow water runoff velocity to reduce erosion and
allows sediments to settle out)
Broom plant
1st check dam
2nd check dam
3rd check dam
More spring flowers
A sea of flowers
Is that Mad Dog blooming in the spring?
On down!
A huge area of land enclosed by a massive fence.
Rear Entry poses by a derelict rock-crushing plant
Down again...
...and up
Fair Cop arrives at the beer check
Tender Vittles (with Violet) welcome the runners
Oxymoron was also waiting for us
On on after the beers
Coke Alone finds a swing on a olive tree
Fair Cop arrives back at the start
Here comes Coke Alone
THE CIRCLE
Doggie Style is given a birthday down-down
A bit of beer spillage there
Wet Dream is also celebrating her birthday
Meanwhile 4-year old Violet rearranges a pile of sand
Coke Alone gets a soft-drink down-down
Oxymoron is awarded the Oxymoron memorial down-down
Mad Dog gets a flying-club down-down
Tender Vittles DIO
Fair Cop's turn
AT THE RESTAURANT
The path leading up to The View
Coke Alone poses at the entrance
Booked
for 12 but we had 14 so spread to an adjacent second table
After the main course they brought out the birthday cake.
No problem for DS in blowing our the candles as the wind did most of it.
The cake is offered to both tables
Doggy Style's birthday pose
It's a warm spring day and no one is in a hurry to leave.
Trying a signature pink coffee
The bill: 14 euros each + 2 euros more for extra drinks
RECORDING
OF THE TRAIL
(approx. 8 km)
From Mad Dog's iPhone6 Strava app. website
Elevation profile showing a 100 metre vertical range
The downloaded .gpx file from Strava website converted in GPS Trackmaker to .kml file displayed on the Google Earth Pro desktop app.
THE DIRECTIONS TO THIS HASH
Sunday,
3rd April @ 11AM - The View Club
Address: Kallitechnon 107, Kallitechnoupoli 190 09
GPS:(38.0266462, 23.9581933)
Hare: Tender Vittles
Comments:
Come join us for an excellent walkers and runners trail.
The start is at a recreation center with a children's park, great for kids
to hang around while the walkers and runners do their trail.
Bring €3, whistle and a change of clothes.
The trail will be between 5-7 KM and it is family friendly.
The weather is guaranteed by your RA to be warm with some overcast for shade,
excellent conditions for running/walking.
See you all there.
On On ... The Hare
MIS-DIRECTIONS
Get on the Attiki Odos and take the exit for Rafina (The one for the Smart Park and Zoo)
At the end of the motorway turn LEFT (not Right for the Zoo)
On arriving at the main road (Leof. Marathonos) turn RIGHT for Pikermi.
Keep on Leof. Marathonos and pass through Pikermi town and on exiting, turn LEFT for Kallitechnoupoli and Daou Penteli.
Before reaching Daou Penteli turn RIGHT onto Geor. Kezasoglou street for Kallitechnoupoli.
After passing through some of the town, turn RIGHT on Kallitechnon street.
This will lead you to The View Club.
Look for the View Club sign on the right ( at No. 107) as Kallitechnon street continues on after the club.
GPS: 38.0266462, 23.9581933
ON THE WAY HOME
THIS WEEK'S MUSIC YOUTUBE VIDEO
'The flowers that bloom in the spring' from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBgUtXRc4sM
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