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GEODETIC REFERENCES

User Grid Longitude of origin +24.00000E Scale factor 0.9996 False easting +500000 False northing +0.0 User Map Datum Dx -200 Dy 74 Dz 246 Da 0 Df 0

For final route planning, note the daylight hours as soon as you arrive. By the end of October (when clocks go back) there are 10hrs of daylight.

Nida: ‘the Partisan of Peace’, photographed in 1992

Maps

Part of the challenge of mountain walking in Crete used to be that you had to work with small-scale maps, and this is still the case in some areas. However, since 2006, Anavasi of Athens has been producing – and this work is ongoing – large scale GNSS-compatible maps of all the best walking regions of Greece, including the Cretan mountains. Relevant to this guidebook there are four separate maps covering the White Mountains, one of Psiloritis (Mount Ida) and one of Lassithi.

Visit the Anavasi website for the latest information, including local stockists. Distribution has been good but even so it may be prudent to buy the maps you want (about £8 each) before your trip, either direct from Anavasi, or, in the UK, from Stanfords (see Appendix D). Digital versions of the maps for mapping receiver GPS users are available via the Anavasi website. These include newly researched paths and roads sooner than the paper maps are available. However, a basic GPS, adjusted to suit, will give you a grid reference – easier too, if you draw on the grid lines from the margins. Useful comments on the walking routes, including timings that are usually faster than those listed in this book, are found on the reverse side of each map.