Adrianos Gorge
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 5.33 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,709 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 1,709 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,868 ft
- TrailRank
-
77
4.8
- Min elevation
- 789 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 3 hours 16 minutes
- Time
- 5 hours 18 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1480
- Uploaded
- June 5, 2020
- Recorded
- June 2020
near Ágios Konstantínos, Crete (Greece)
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Itinerary description
The walk starts with a long uphill ascent moving onto a rough way trail. You need to keep an eye out for the yellow and blue markers and note if they have an arrow showing direction to take.
The way path will eventually take you above the small village of Adrianos where you will have to negotiate yourself down a steep descent.
When you hit the village head left and follow the signs to the Gorge.
Again keep vigilant for the trail markers as they show you the way to go so that you don't end up having to drop down high heights to continue the trail.
There is little shade and the pebbles are loose and hard going to walk on.
There are two sections where you need to descent using a rope, one being over 5 meters high.
A couple of gates to pass through, as I mentioned before there is little relief from the heat of the sun and a few of the pathways are very narrow requiring a couple of detours to the sides of the gorge as opposed to carrying straight down the middle.
The signage is there to help but remain vigilant.
It is a physical demanding walk and not for the unfit. Bring plenty of water as there is nowhere to top up.
Waypoints
Car park
1,080 ft
Start
Not much space to park vehicles down this lane, so left them under the trees. Walk is nicely signposted on a Yellow and Blue sign The same colours that are used to mark the route
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1,080 ft
Photo of pathway
Follow the concrete pathway and keep left on the first branch off pathway
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1,008 ft
Take the right pathway
Keep to the right shingle pathway and keep going up The path is a long uphill meandering route rising 139 meters before intercepting the off trail pathway
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1,464 ft
Typical signage to guide you
Typical blue and yellow marker to follow, some will have arrows to show which direction to follow, others just a signage to state you are on the right path. These will be on trees, rocks and boulders throughout the walk Keep to this pathway to the left of the tree From here the track takes you up 124 meters of wild path to the top of the hill
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1,470 ft
Photo of pathway
Off terrain from here The pathway is fairly well trodden but keep a lookout for the signage to stay on track
Panorama
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1,867 ft
Photo of the trail you are following
There is no shade and the markers can be a little hard to spot, but generally head up
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1,858 ft
View from top of hill
Looking down from the top above the village of Adrianos A fairly steep track to follow down to the village
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1,667 ft
Village, nearly there
When you get to the bottom, keep right and pass between the white house into the main village road, turn left
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1,596 ft
Signage to gorge
Large sign on tree to point your way Follow the pathway out of the village
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1,574 ft
Keep to the left
A rock with the blue and yellow sign is easy to miss, but it is on the left pathway and the correct path to take
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1,536 ft
Fence, negotiate around it to the right
When you get to the fence you bypass it to the right, the signage is there. follow it for a short distance and it will drop you down to the pebbled floor of the gorge
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1,541 ft
Photo of pathway
From here you are in the gorge The pebble underfoot is not a comfortable walk many being loose and unstable The heat that is reflected from the pebbles and rocks is also uncomfortable with virtually no shade. Keep vigilant for the markers as it shows the easiest route to take, bypassing many high ledge drops
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1,623 ft
Photo of pathway
Trail takes you through many rock that you have to jump across, slide down and pass through
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1,612 ft
Photo of opening you have to negotiate
opening you have to negotiate, best doing it backwards and dropping down
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1,470 ft
First of two rope drops
Just a small drop here with a rope to help you get down Keep to the right when you come down as there is a large opening to the left at the bottom and you could easily miss your footing and bang your legs
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1,471 ft
Pathway goes left there through boulders
We stopped for lunch here. One of the few places that had shade in the whole gorge. The walk continues through the boulders. Keep a vigilant lookout for the signs and follow them otherwise you may find that if you miss them you may come to a difficult high drop or it become inaccessible If you do, just double back until you see the sign you missed. They can be difficult to spot
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1,615 ft
Second rope descent
This drop is roughly 5 meters, just abseil with your legs pushing against the rocks.
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1,621 ft
Photo of pathway
A few areas where you have to go up and around to continue the route
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1,272 ft
Looking back on pathway
Looking back on a bit of the pathway where we had to keep to the left of the gorge and follow a narrow path before dropping back down again on to the gorge floor
Door
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942 ft
Continue up on the rockface to the left
The path Continues up on the rock face to the left of the gorge
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823 ft
Turn left
Through the gate and go left up the uphill concrete pathway. At this point a hard grind when your tired Continue until you intersect the main road
Intersection
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Hiya, Amazingly Teresa & I attempted Adrianos Gorge last week, but lost our way and had to turn back 😣 😊.
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Magnifique randonnée, peut être la plus belle de Crete, mais aussi une des plus difficile. Fléchage de grande qualité. A faire absolument. Randonnée difficile, passage avec corde et avec les mains.
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Très chouette randonnée, attention nous l'avons faites au lendemain d'une nuit pluvieuse, les rochers étaient donc particulièrement glissants (le 2e passage en corde peut dans ce cas être dangereux si on a pas les bonnes chaussures).
Super bien balisé, je recommande !
Very beautiful round walk and great signs. A bit adventures though with a lot of vlimbing over rocks and stones. Loved it!
Je comptais faire cette gorge mais n’ayant pas de corde ce sera pour une autre année.
Merci pour ces commentaires très précieux.