
| Me and my friend Fotis have to be the only people that climbed Vardoussia from Athens in a day trip.
This wasn't the plan, of course. Some friends were spending the whole Christmas vacation on the mountain, staying in the refuge. We couldn't go from the 24th, so we thought we 'll grab our gear and go climb something in the weekend.
Saturday morning we started climbing in perfect weather but bad snow (the climbing gear was already feeling like dead weight). Just before reaching the hut we met the others coming down. As it turned out, they have been stormed in for 3 days and since the conditions didn't allow for any climbing we all took the long road home (driving back through the icy road proved to be the crux) |