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Alberto Pedrotti

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Distance: 28.01 mi
Elevation gain: 5,909 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 5,840 ft
Max elevation: 4,022 ft
TrailRank: 64
Min elevation: 26 ft
Trail type: One Way

Time: 13 hours 19 minutes
Coordinates: 2279
Uploaded: March 1, 2018
Recorded: August 2014

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near Treis Ekklhsies, Crete (Greece)

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Itinerary description

The present track collects the cycling of August 09, 2014, which was entirely on gravel. Up from Tres Ekklisies to Paranimfi. After a detour to the wonderful isolated church of Agios Pavlos, up to the summit of the Kofinas, which is the highest summit of the Asterousia. From there, directly down to the isolated Koudouma monastery. A few days earlier I had achieved the same by foot, remaining 200-300 above the coastline: a path which needs a certain amount of rock scrambling.
Later I did it again by foot passing through the church of Agios Pavlos, which is longer but easier. Unfortunately I did not record the tracks of these walks. Due to errors, I also lost the tracks of my further cycling to Agiofarago and Cape Lithino, and from there back to Tres Ekklisies.

An annotated version of the summit 360° from Kofinas can be found on PPH

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Waypoints

Tres Ekklisies

Fork to Mesosfini

Upper switchbacks

First view

Fork to Mournia

Fork to Charakas

Amigdalos

Paranimfi

Fork to Agios Pavlos

Fork Agios Pavlos - viewpoint

Aerial view II

Aerial view I

Viewpoint at Agios Pavlos

Agios Pavlos

Fountain

Door

Platanias

Sopata

Strange place: all the high roads ot the Asterousia seem to converge here!

View on Kapetaniana

Fork to Kofinas

Kofinas end of road

Kofinas ridge

Timios Stavros

The chapel on top of the Kofinas.

Kofinas

Highest point of the Asteroussia, and sacred summit in Minoan times.

Panagia Kera

Little curch little below the start of the summit path.

Madhara saddle

The summit is not featured in the track, but is it very easy to reach from the road. Better not to start from the very saddle, but to push on some hundreds of metres in direction Koudouma.