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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Mountain climbing on Crete, Greece with EOS Rethymnon: photo gallery

Mountain climbing on Crete, Greece with EOS Rethymnon: photo gallery

Greek Association of mountaineers Rethymnon
Dimokratias 12, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
Phone: +30 2831 057766 * email: eosrethymno@rethymnon.com

Rest at the little church on top of the Psiloritis (Mount Ida)



http://eos.rethymnon.com/program.html

Program of Events 2012

Equipment
The most important role at our excursions plays the right equipment. Right equipment means safety, survival and comfortable ascend and descend.
Please contact the guide before every excursion. He will inform you about the suitable and necessary equipment.
Terms of Participation
The participation in events of the EOS Rethymnon will happen on your own risk. The EOS Rethymnon is not responsible in any way for accidents caused by the participant himself.
The guide of the excursion has the right to change the program corresponding to the weather conditions.

Ascent to the Psiloritis top in Winter


http://eos.rethymnon.com/index.html

The mountain calls...
also on the island of Crete with its high mountain regions between Hania and Rethymnon ("White Mountains"), between Rethymnon and Heraklion ("Psiloritis" / "Mount Ida") and between Heraklion and Agios Nikolaos ("Dicta Mountains") with their foothills and plateaus in the eastern part of the island.
The direct neighborhood between high mountains in the middle, steep cliffs and rocks at the south coast and long white beaches along the northern coast of the island rewards the mountain hiker at any time of the day with an unforgettable view that lets him forget all troubles of the ascent.

Winter...
on Crete is not just the soft rain at the coasts and in the valleys falling on orange and lemon trees giving life to the earth, which is longing for water from May to October, it is not just the winter storms lashing the waves like furies in rage. No, in the Cretan mountains snow is falling day by day. The temperatures in the evenings have fallen steadily since September to a level, that you can see the villagers in their winter parkas, when the last tourists are taking their dinner at the "platia", the village square, freezing in their bermuda shorts and blouses. From November to February we villagers are quite alone again, and some villages are always cut off by snow.
It's time for mountaineering.

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