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Greece (Mt. Olympos)

Welcome to Mt. Olympos

Day 1 - Prionas to Refuge A to Skala - Campout - Day 2 - Skala to Mytikas to Iomakia to Refuge B to Refuge A to Prionia
The long hike up
Don poses (fake backdrop?)
and takes a break
I get artistic
Flowers and bug

Flowers and sky

Still climbing
3.5 hours up to Refuge A
Poser me
Refuge A
Where the lot of em sleep
Leaving Refuge A for higher ground
Looking down
Looking up

The campout crew (Petros, Dimitrios, Panagiutis (Pancho), Ioannis (papa))
Looking down on Litohoro
Mountains and clouds
The sun begins to set
Mytikas peak (landscape)
Mytikas peak (portrait)
Proud papa Ioannis
Posers (Panaguitis, Ioannis, Dimitios, Petros)
Me and the posers
Sunset over Olympos




Sunrise over Litohoro

After a sub-freezing night riger mortous sets in



'Brrrrrrrr'
Me and my dugout
Shadow and dugout
To get to the peak you must first go down...
straight down...
'take another'
and across...

and down and across...



and straight up
It isn't an easy climb
Looking up at the peak
Looking down from 10,000 feet
The final climb
We made it! (minus papa)
The real peak
Hours later papa finally makes it
Team Salonika poses at the top (Panaguitis, Petros, Dimitrios, Ioannis)
The whole gang (chocolate in my mouth)
Now we gotta get down somehow
Looking down

Pancho too scared to begin
'Come on guys... It aint bad, honest'
Wild flowers in the canyon
and daiseys





speaking of daiseys
Moments later a large rock avalanches within inches of my head
Pancho pushes on
The climb isn't for everyone
This guy fell and broke just about every bone in his body
Carrying to the nearest refuge
In critical condition




Climbing above the clouds
Trail to Refuge B
Refuge B in the distance
The refuge
This place is absolutely beautiful!