November News

Having been advised not to arrange volunteers for this month due to the imminent start of the Trails Project, I haven’t actively been looking. So, of course, the start date has yet again been delayed as the papers have been sitting on someones desk waiting to be signed and returned. We are so close now, I can’t say more.

The last trail to be cleaned was Abuzali on 15 October.

Lene, a retired nurse from Sweden came to help at this time but it rained every day and she got so bored with lack of work, she left! We did manage to go round and check on some of the Geocaches, remove a couple that weren’t working and place a new one that got found two days later!

Abuzali

On 12 October, I GPSed a long circular hike starting from Milos, then Ag Konstantinos, down to Glysteri, up to XTA, Chickpea, Pera Kariya, Kriavrissi, The Gorge, Djelili, Prof. Ilias and back to Milos – 13k. A route for the next edition of Skopelos Trails.

The next group hike, weather permitting, will be on Sunday 16th. I’m thinking Mill on the Hill via Kimissia, returning by municipal bus.

We are now gathering information for our next publication which will be about Mammals and Bats. If you have any high resolution images of mammals or the fallow deer, please contact me. You will receive full photo credit.

Skopelos Trails: A British woman uncovering — literally — paths of Greek island’s simple past

JANUARY-MAY NEWS

At last our latest publication, over a month later than expected, has arrived and is on the shelves. We are very happy with the result, after putting in a lot of hard work plus toing and froing between us and the printer. We have already started on our next publication which will hopefully be ready by Easter 2026.

We started trail clearing this year on 24 January and stopped 23 May. In spite of a lot of rain in February, altogether, I worked 42 days and with the help of three Workaway volunteers throughout that period and six others, we reopened and carried out maintenance on the following trails:

Vouno Glossa, The Gorge, Klima to Kosta, Ag Marina, Anania, Dymaka, Platanakia, Abuzali, Myli spring, Moutero, Petrovrissi, Prof. Ilias church, Djelili, Karyia and Skleri.

I’d like to mention and thank my Workawayers: Chris Stofel from Austria, who played a huge part in reopening the old Gorge trail from Djelili to Kriavrissi, Sina and Jana from Germany plus local helpers Marko Kazandzic, Thomas and his wife Andrea, Chris and his wife Angela plus Johan Uthus.

We start again in September.