Fengari

Start in Therma (about 50 m) on the dirt road that climbs to the right of the municipal thermal baths on Psarotherma hill. It passes mobile-phone antennas in the fire-protection zone (about 190 m, 25–30 minutes; close the gate behind you) and ends at about 290 m, where the E6 path continues through ferns and strawberry trees. After a stream crossing and a steep climb the path enters the Martini forest, one of the oldest wild oak forests in the Aegean (about 500 m, 1.5 hours), and climbs through it until the trees thin at 750–800 m. At about 1,050 m (3 hours) the path reaches the Kalamithria spring, often unreliable or dry in summer, then the open saddle between the Tsivdogiannis and Gria valleys (1,100–1,150 m), a good camp for a two-day trip. Above about 1,300 m there is only boulders and scree; follow red dots and cairns up the long slope to the summit ridge, joined just above 1,500 m by the path from Chora. The ridge has three tops: a Bulgarian-built trig pillar at 1,584 m, then the Greek geodetic marker where the waymarks stop (20–30 minutes on), and the true summit about 300 m further, marked by a cairn and a bent iron rod. The final ridge has unstable ground and exposed crossings with drops on both sides. Descend the same way; hikers get lost every year, mostly on the way down in poor visibility.