{"id":281,"date":"2018-05-11T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/?p=281"},"modified":"2018-05-11T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T21:15:08","slug":"bafi-refuge-1160m-skipiza-spring-1205m-fire-brigade-cabin-1300m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Bafi refuge (1160m) \u2013 Skipiza spring (1205m) \u2013 Fire Brigade Cabin (1300m)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>MOUNT PARNITHA<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parnitha Mountain is located in the north of Athens with a total area of \u200b\u200bapproximately 300 square kilometers and along with Mount Penteli, Hymettos and Egaleo embraces the basin of Athens. The highest peak is Karabola (1.413 m). It is covered at lower altitude by pine trees and fir trees at higher altitude. Parnitha has been declared as an area of \u200b\u200bspecial natural beauty and a great part of the mountain is National Park which was founded in 1961. At one of the mountain peaks, Mavrovouni, a Casino (Mont Parnes) has been built, which can be reached either by car or by cable car. In the area there are two mountain refuges, Bafi and Flambouri.<\/p>\n<p>USEFULL INFORMATION<\/p>\n<p>European emergency number: 112<\/p>\n<p>Fire brigade: 199<\/p>\n<p>Medical Emergency: 166<\/p>\n<p>Usefull sites:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpafi.gr\">www.mpafi.gr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Region Map:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d15404.88638066166!2d23.708059040475316!3d38.174595793614465!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x14a10a8a95deeb3b%3A0x7d1ba5bc209f4934!2sParnitha!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sde!4v1526071912821\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nSHORT DESCRIPTION<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/en1parn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285\" src=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/en1parn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>It is a very easy route, which, in addition to hiking in dense vegetation, also has a spectacular view after ascending to Skipiza spring and the Fire Brigade Cabin.\u00a0 From Bafi refuge you will follow the asphalt road heading to the Holy Trinity. Approximately in 300 meters to the right you will meet an uphill narrow road, which you are going to \u00a0follow for 1.5 km until you come across a sign that says &#8220;Skipiza -Pyrofilakio&#8221;. Basically , this is the starting \u00a0point of \u00a0the trail. If you do not want to walk that part of the route , you can get here by car and park in the small car park.<\/p>\n<p>The trail is mild \u00a0without any uphill and downhill directions and it is \u00a0moving through \u00a0dense forest \u00a0vegetation. After a while \u00a0the vegetation is lost and that is \u00a0because the path passes through \u00a0the burned forest area ( the big fire of 2007). But soon enough, the path returns to the dense forest, full of fir trees that generously give their shade to the hiker . After a t while, you will reach the Skipiza spring .<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the spring\u2019s water is one of the best in the Mountain of Parnitha. At this point \u00a0you are at 1200 m altitude, and you will continue hiking for another 10 minutes up to the FireBrigade\u00a0 Cabin. Going up the steep hill , you will have an impressive view of Elefsina and by continuing \u00a0at the altitude of 1300 meters where the Fire Brigade Cabin \u00a0is, you will have all the Evoikos Gulf and Evia\u2019s summits in front of your eyes. You are continuing to follow the path that, in a short time, crosses, (from the left) the path that comes from Mola. But you will go to the right, following the signs from the Fire Brigade Cabin to Bafi refuge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Snapshot-1-Mpafi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-284 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Snapshot-1-Mpafi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can understand, you will make a small circle, in the beautiful fir forest around Skipiza spring, where you will meet the original path again. Following the path to the opposite direction this time, you will soon arrive at the starting point of the route and Bafi refuge. At the refuge , which is managed by\u00a0 Athens\u00a0 Mountaineering club , you can have a good rest and a good meal on a daily basis.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT PARNITHA Parnitha Mountain is located in the north of Athens with a total area of \u200b\u200bapproximately 300 square kilometers and along with Mount Penteli, Hymettos and Egaleo embraces the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[150,152,151,9,149,146,148,147],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trekxp","tag-bafi","tag-flambouri","tag-skipiza-spring","tag-trekking","tag-149","tag-146","tag-148","tag-147"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parnitha_some_snow_.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oXKh-4x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}