The trail starts at the football court of Samarina village. Its lowest part is properly waymarked, while the section crossing the alpine zone is marked with metal poles. This side of the mountain receives considerable quantities of snow and is inaccessible without special equipment during the colder months of the year. Samarina is built at an elevation of over 1400; highest than any other greek village.The first part of the route goes through a fir forest, yet the trees are not to thick so as to hide the path. Begin your ascend, leaving the village behind you. You will pass two clearings, and finally reach a spring after about an hours' walk. If it is covered in snow, look for the small stream; it will lead you to the spring. After this point, the forest becomes gradually thinner and the slope is steeper.
Keep Capetan Tsekouras ridge on your left and walk on its foot until Bogdoni peak appears before you. We need to reach the ridge between these summits and then go to the right. The path goes left of Bogdani peak and takes us to the other side of the mountain where we can see the Albanian mountains and mount Grammos. We continue towards Mosia peaks. We keep ascending and then we can see the highest peak of the mountain and the ridge to get there. On the way there are some fallen metal poles. Soon we will arrive to a plateau and then we can climb to the peak where we can see Tymfi and lake Mosia. At this point our route ends.
In case someone wants to continue to the highest peak he needs to descend to the right and then ascend again to the second peak.
The itinerary takes about 7 hours depending on the conditions.
Source: mountainsgreece.com
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