{"id":405,"date":"2019-04-06T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T08:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/?p=405"},"modified":"2019-04-06T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T18:20:16","slug":"olympus-mountain-kleftovrisi-alt-1380m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Olympus Mountain  \u2013  Kleftovrisi (Alt. 1380m)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The area of \u200b\u200bKleftovrisi is located in the North Olympus, in the stream of Arapis, above Vrodou, which is a semi-mountainous town of the prefecture of Pieria and also the entrance of Olympus from its north side. Many climbers are having Vrodou as a starting point for the mythical mountain\u2019s summits. Before the entrance to Mount Olympus, in the place called Agii Apostoli, there is the Information Center of the Olympus National Park and Vrodou Mountaineering Club and in the altitude of 1100 m there is the mountain refuge of \u201cKrevatia&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Kleftovrisi, after a gun fight ( in 1925) \u00a0the famous Greek bandit \u00a0Yangoulas was killed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>USEFUL INFORMATION<\/h4>\n<p>Distance from Thessaloniki:\u00a0 84 km<br \/>\nEuropean Emergency Number:\u00a0\u00a0112<br \/>\nFire Brigade Dept:\u00a0199<br \/>\nMedical Emergency:\u00a0\u00a0166<br \/>\nVrodou Mountaineering Club:\u00a0\u00a0 697 222 4665<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eosvrontous.gr\/\">https:\/\/www.eosvrontous.gr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Agia Kori (alt.300m) \u2013 Mastorouli\u2019s spring (alt. 970m) \u2013 Kleftovrisi (alt. 1380m) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Route Information<\/strong> <\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>Route Description: Trekking<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Route Length: 8 km<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Water in route: Yes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Duration:\u00a0\u00a0 4 h (ascent) &#8211; 4H (descent)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The route took place in\u00a0 MAR 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From Vrodou we take the road leading to Agia Kori. We cross the junction for Old Vrodou and Ag. Triada and in about 4 km we see the beginning of a forest road. From here we are starting the ascent. We follow the road freely, but also we are using many times the path that crosses the road. We walk about 1.5 hours, having on our left the stream of Agia Kori \u00a0when we \u00a0reach a point where the road becomes slightly downhill, just \u00a0before crossing the ravine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/54354339_425216474895904_2592049923193044992_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-411\" src=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/54354339_425216474895904_2592049923193044992_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our right we see a steep uphill road. We are following it and in about 15 minutes we come across a sign that writes &#8220;water&#8221;. We follow the path and soon we reach the spring of Mastorouli (alt. 970 m).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/53621317_323872114938359_1904353456408231936_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/53621317_323872114938359_1904353456408231936_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are back on the road again, which is very uphill and drives deep into the ravine. In about 1 hour, we see on our right an ascending path and we follow it. The path follows the ravine and being in higher altitude, than the ravine itself, is giving us a better view. The path intersects with the ravine far above, it passes across and continues ascending. Once it goes to the opposite side of the ravine, it becomes not clear and the only help for our orientation are some red marks. We continue our climb, trekking between the big , tall Cedars, and in about an hour, our path brings us into a neck in the woods. Shortly, the inclination is getting normal and we are heading south for another 10 minutes until we meet Arapi\u2019s stream in front of us, while higher , in the horizon, we can see the majestic peak of Skourta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/53846742_310862906270744_8819371246736113664_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-407\" src=\"http:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/53846742_310862906270744_8819371246736113664_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"836\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We enter the ravine, descending, with great precaution, on the left side, for another 20 minutes and we meet a path to the right that leads us to Kleftovrisi (1380 m). The return is done by following the same route backwords.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos: George Manolopoulos\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Text: Constantine Tsakanikas<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our climb, trekking between the big , tall Cedars, and in about an hour, our path brings us into a neck in the woods. Shortly, the inclination is getting normal and we are heading south for another 10 minutes until we meet Arapi\u2019s stream in front of us, while higher , in the horizon, we can see the majestic peak of Skourta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413,"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":[232,229,233,109,234,231,230,225,227,224,228,102,226],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trekxp","tag-agia-kori","tag-kleftovrisi","tag-mastoroulis-spring","tag-olympus-mountain","tag-peak-of-skourta","tag-stream-of-arapis","tag-vrodou","tag-225","tag-227","tag-224","tag-228","tag-102","tag-226"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/53918299_2333696026675548_4684121419263508480_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oXKh-6x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theursaminor.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}