In the wild mountains of Arcadia

Yesterdays climbing continued until max 1150 m. Beautiful Arcadian town of Langadhia along the way up. After the pass subalpine vegatation with spruces, very much in contrast to the forest fire damaged woodlands near Olympia. What was climbing for us, is the place of the gods' wild frenzies according to Euripides' Bacchae!

Reached campsite during daylight. Temperature surprisingly stable over several hundreds of metres of altitude.
My altimeter is an invaluable tool, unlike the map material given out by the organizers because it's really hard to identifiy the ascents and descents from a b/w copy.

This photo shows our Silk Road van that carries the excess luggage (including even two complete spare bikes) and is driven by Marcin and Adam from Poland who do lots of other things during the day for the benefit of the group like providing water, organizing and signposting nightstays etc.

GPS and more photos http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=13239