Two springs walk
Trail photos
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.64 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,375 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,375 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,194 ft
- TrailRank
-
64
4.3
- Min elevation
- 1,952 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 2 hours 52 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours 12 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1825
- Uploaded
- January 20, 2022
- Recorded
- January 2022
near Kritsá, Crete (Greece)
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Trail photos
Itinerary description
Another part of the route has a short shingle section.
Much of the trail is unmarked but can be easily followed.
After leaving the second Spring the track continues unmarked ,by the line of trees scrabble down the rocks and through more trees before intersecting a decent pathway with blue marker's to follow.
Another unmarked section from the tree area with the singular chair before intersecting the 4x4 road and onto where the cars are parked.
Waypoints
Car park
2,398 ft
Start
After parking the cars, follow the well defined road for 1.3 Kms to the first intersection. The road is fairly flat on this section
Photo
2,411 ft
view of track
View of roadway a small downhill section just before a U bend 0.5kms further on
Intersection
2,395 ft
First Intersection
Keep right Road zig-zags downhill, when you have walked approx another 1.4 kms, go off the road and down a small slope to cut off a section of road bends and save a bit of walking distance The road travels up and down slight inclines for another 1.4Kms
Intersection
2,096 ft
Turn Left
Turn Left by small roadside monument and follow this track 600 metres climbing steadily up 50 metres higher.
Panorama
Photo
2,274 ft
Go up throgh rough terrain
Up 200 metres of rough rocks and thorny bushes to intersect the road again tough 80 metre climb
Intersection
2,254 ft
Go left on the roadway
Follow the road passing the gorge to your left for 1.2 Kms rising 80 metres to the turn to climb the shale terrain further on
Photo
2,687 ft
First Spring
The walk actually passes many springs, but this is the first that has a man-made construction, just a few metres before the climb up the shale to your right.
Intersection
2,746 ft
Pass the buildings and go right
Pass the storage buildings and through the open fence up the shale for approx 300 metres, turning left by the large tree and following the pathway up over the hill
Intersection
2,992 ft
before passing tree the pathway is to the left
By large tree, the pathway is easily seen. Follow up the hill through the trees to the top of the hill
Photo
3,123 ft
pathway becomes more defined
Continue along pathway to the next spring and the highest point of the walk at 973 metres high.
Fountain
Photo
3,143 ft
Continue on ahead through scrubs to the tree line
Continue on ahead through scrubs to the tree line approx 100 metres before going down through the rocky terrain and dropping 100 metres in height 800 metres further on
Intersection
3,097 ft
Intersection
Go down before this tree and follow faint pathway down, stepping over rocks and boulders through treeline. If you pass these trees you will have missed the trail and although you can get down and connect with the trail further down it will be more of a challenge
Intersection
2,805 ft
Intercepting pathway and blue markers
Hit the trail and go right following the blue markers, passing a collection of shepherd huts
Photo
2,808 ft
Pass shepherds huts
Pass motley collection of shepherd huts, follow trail that leads to road track
Intersection
2,776 ft
Open area
Pass by an open area with a singular chair and where the shepherds place the hay in the fork of the trees for their goats, continue straight ahead
Photo
2,795 ft
Go straight ahead
Follow the trail for another 200 metres and it intersects a roadway, which you follow all the way back to your cars
Intersection
2,661 ft
Trail meets roadway, go right
Intersecting the roadway, keep left and follow road
Intersection
2,589 ft
at Intersection by tree turn left
Turn left, pass through small stream twice ( if water levels are high enough) and follow twisting road back 2.6 Kms to end
Photo
2,592 ft
Rough roadway
Rough roadway continue onwards. Gorge views to your left as you walk along this roadway
Intersection
2,408 ft
Back to first intersection
Return to the first intersection in the walk, this time go right back to the parked cars 1.2 Kms further on and complete trail
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Excellent walk 👍 challenging at times 🥵, but fabulous location with some of route covered in snow ❄️👍😎
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The springs were very nice. The views amazing. I skipped the short cuts between loops of the road wherever possible - preferring to follow the road. I didn’t like the long part of unclear path, as I was forced to follow the wikiloc app closely so as not to get lost, and thus couldn’t just enjoy the scenery.