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Last edited 29/05/2006 Here you will find recent updates to the walks contained within my book Skopelos Trails. This page is updated constantly. When I find changes on any of the featured walks I always post them here. So please check back often!
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Updates to 1st Edition Walk 8 (page 38 - picture 43) Pile of sand at beginning of track is still there. Walk to the left of it and you'll see the track beyond. Walk 9 (picture 47) Lots of lavender on this route. The track after the white bungalow is now a steep, bulldozed road edged with chain-link fencing. After a couple of minutes hard slog, this new road continues on (left) but you veer right where the old path is visible. When you reach a building, you can see the bulldozed road again on the left. You continue on the path and follow text on page 49. To end on the Ag. Reginos side of the hill. After the spring, follow marked path, veering left at marked rock. Just after the meadow, a b.....y great big bulldozed road crosses our path, winding up to a new apartment block up on the left. Simply cross straight over it where you will see the track again. There are several tracks leading up on the left, keep right and you will emerge onto the road you climbed up earlier, before the untidy small-holding. Turn down right then almost immediately left. This track winds along then down through an olive grove with a "kalivi". At the bottom, turn right. You'll see that someone has used an old bed and ladders as fencing. Continue along then down between chain-link fencing, where you join a dirt road 15 minutes later. Turn left for Ag. Reginos/Agnondas or right for Skopelos town. Walk 10 (page 41 - change to text after pic.44) A bulldozer had destroyed the track beyond the Xiropigatho spring beside the large white house. Walk 11 (page 46) The track between Petrovrissi spring and Xeropigatho spring has been destroyed by a bulldozer. Walk 13 (Return route via Evangelistria - 1 hour back to Dilinia Taverna) I have marked the track entrance from the road with a blob and cairn. It divides almost immediately. Turn right. Twenty minutes later at a marked junction, you can go on but I suggest you bear right and you'll find a fantastic place to rest with views across to the town and the northern coastline. To continue, either retrace your steps to the junction or find a marked stone in the bottom left of the meadow where the path continues down, divides and joins up again. Keep bearing left. As the road that leads to the monastery becomes visible, there is a final junction, turn right and you are at the entrance to the monastery. Walk 16 & Walk 19 (picture 69) The road between Skopelos and Elios via Karia is now asphalt. Walk 20 and Walk 22 It is with regret that I have to tell you that the local authorities have destroyed yet another portion of "kalderimi" in order to make a road; Old Klima to Machala. Owners of land locked olive groves claim they want easier access but I believe they have in mind to sell. Road access would obviously make this possible. The destruction of a "kalderimi" means nothing to them and so they take the easy option rather than try to find a way round destroying the path but still obtain access. Walk 21 (page 69 - picture 85) Keep going along the dirt road - don't turn into the forest - as a new road has been cut clean across the path, leaving one stranded 15ft up a slope. Continue on the dirt road, which leads to the water pumping station. Walk 23 ( page 75) Dirt road now asphalt. Walk 24 (page 76) Dirt road now asphalt. Also, on page 77, 2. Take the dirt road opposite the monastery. After a climb of about ten minutes, ignore the inviting dirt road on the right, opposite a vineyard. Continue up the hill. Walk 26 (page 80 - picture 85) Don't go into the forest as a new road has been cut clean across the path, leaving one stranded 15ft. up a slope. Continue on the dirt road, which leads to the water pumping station. Walk 29 By the burnt tree area, trees have been felled across the path making it difficult to pass. A fence has now been put around the lighthouse, making if difficult to get down to it plus there is nowhere to sit. Updates to 1st&2nd Edition Walk 7 (page 35 picture 37) After the triangular rock and halfway up the zigzag track, the cement drive to a new house cuts clean across our path. Cross over and you'll see the continuation of the track. Where the track emerges at the top of the hill, a fence has been erected. The path skirts around it and ends just below Ag. Marina church. GENERAL Due to an ankle injury last year and a terrible winter, I have been unable to get out much. Many paths have become overgrown and in places fallen trees are blocking the trails. From Djilali spring to Glysteri Bay for example, the way is blocked. The situation in general has become too bad for me to handle alone. The Town Hall has to intervene. Elections are in October and perhaps the new mayor will help. We will see! But in the meantime, I apologize if you get stuck anywhere. Let me know and I will put your information up on this site.
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