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Alan McWilliams

E-MTB rider based in Western Crete, documenting off-road routes across mountain, rural, and historic terrain.

Routes are personally ridden and field-verified, recorded with GPX data, clear grading, terrain notes, and surface accuracy. The emphasis is on rideability, access, and realistic conditions rather than headline distance or speed.
Many routes follow older paths, resistance landscapes, battlefield ground, and working rural or sacred sites. Historical context is included only where it arises directly from the ground being ridden, with attention to place-names and land use over time.


Off-road riding in Crete involves linking existing tracks, older paths, and rural access routes with short road sections, reflecting the absence of a way-marked E-MTB trail network and the terrain’s settlement-based structure.
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13 Eylül 2026 05:01

Morning Ride

Süre

2h42m

Mesafe

27,6km

Hız

15,1km/h

Çıkış

610m

İniş

620m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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10 Eylül 2026 04:56

Morning Ride

Süre

3h16m

Mesafe

38,4km

Hız

15,6km/h

Çıkış

820m

İniş

830m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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8 Eylül 2026 05:07

Morning Ride

Süre

2h53m

Mesafe

27,5km

Hız

16,8km/h

Çıkış

550m

İniş

550m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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6 Eylül 2026 06:24

The Descent and the Twenty-Seven Bends

The way down lay in full view and told us almost nothing. It was only a pale thread scratched across the limestone, appearing on one shoulder of the mountain and vanishing behind the next. Far below, the Frangokastello plain spread beside the Libyan Sea, green and geometrical where the high…

Süre

3h45m

Mesafe

27,9km

Hız

11,7km/h

Çıkış

980m

İniş

980m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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3 Eylül 2026 04:54

The Wells at Kefalas

There are places I have ridden through so many times that I have stopped really looking at them. Kefalas is one of them.

On this morning's ride I stopped in the village square beside the church, where a small group of old wells sits among the stone paving and trees.…

Süre

2h56m

Mesafe

30,9km

Hız

17,6km/h

Çıkış

620m

İniş

620m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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1 Eylül 2026 04:59

Reading the Landscape - Part 5: The Koules

Süre

3h24m

Mesafe

37,2km

Hız

15,1km/h

Çıkış

830m

İniş

840m

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30 Ağustos 2026 04:55

Reading the Landscape - Part 4: Phrygana

The Cretan Landscape in Summer

The previous rides in Reading the Landscape had taken me to the salt pans beside the sea, into the limestone country of Apokoronas, and then to water — or, more accurately, to the evidence left by water in a landscape which for much of the…

Süre

4h37m

Mesafe

37,0km

Hız

15,2km/h

Çıkış

780m

İniş

780m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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11 Ağustos 2026 05:04

Reading the Landscape - Part 3: Water

Reading a Dry Watercourse in the Limestone of Apokoronas

The first two rides in Reading the Landscape began with things that were immediately visible.

The salt pans were cut into the coastal rock beside the sea. Stone was everywhere across the limestone country of Apokoronas.

Today was different.

The subject…

Süre

2h42m

Mesafe

26,1km

Hız

16,7km/h

Çıkış

600m

İniş

600m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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9 Ağustos 2026 04:58

Reading the Landscape - Part 2: Stone

Limestone and the Karst Landscape of Apokoronas

The first ride in Reading the Landscape took me down to the coast and the salt pans cut into the rock beside the sea. Today the route went in the opposite direction, away from the coast and into the broken limestone country of…

Süre

3h04m

Mesafe

33,5km

Hız

16,4km/h

Çıkış

710m

İniş

710m

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6 Ağustos 2026 05:29

Reading the Landscape — Part 1: The Salt Pans

The landscape itself can preserve the memory of an industry long after the buildings, tools and people have disappeared.

The ride began, as so many do, in Kokkino Chorio, following familiar roads across the Apokoronas before descending towards the coast. The morning was warm but clear, with excellent visibility across…

Süre

2h17m

Mesafe

12,8km

Hız

14,7km/h

Çıkış

240m

İniş

330m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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4 Ağustos 2026 04:59

Objects Along the Way — Part 10: The Shepherd’s Hut

A small dry-stone shelter within Roupakias Forest preserves the practical knowledge of those who once worked and moved through this landscape.

Some objects stand openly beside the road. Others must be found. The shepherd’s hut lies within Roupakias Forest, the wooded area included in local walking route guides known as…

Süre

3h07m

Mesafe

30,6km

Hız

16,5km/h

Çıkış

590m

İniş

590m

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2 Ağustos 2026 04:28

Objects Along the Way – Part 9: The Minoan Tholos Tomb

Riding Through Time ......

Today's circular ride began and ended in Kokkino Chorio, covering 51.7 kilometres with 980 metres of climbing through the varied landscapes of Apokoronas. The ride took 4 hours 8 minutes overall, including stops for exploration and photography, with 3 hours 6 minutes of riding time. The…

Süre

4h09m

Mesafe

51,7km

Hız

16,7km/h

Çıkış

980m

İniş

980m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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30 Temmuz 2026 05:23

Objects Along the Way – Part 8: The Irrigation Manifold

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
— W. H. Auden

Water has always determined where people live, what they grow and, ultimately, whether communities survive. On an island where long, dry summers are the norm rather than the exception, every spring, stream and well has shaped the…

Süre

2h56m

Mesafe

32,3km

Hız

15,6km/h

Çıkış

730m

İniş

740m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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26 Temmuz 2026 04:24

Objects Along the Way – Part 7: The Threshing Circle

"The gods keep hidden from men the means of life."
— Hesiod, Works and Days

Every landscape has its places of work.

Some are obvious: the harbour, the quarry, the olive mill. Others survive so quietly that they are almost invisible. Hidden beneath the shade of old cypress trees, enclosed…

Süre

3h08m

Mesafe

30,9km

Hız

15,3km/h

Çıkış

650m

İniş

650m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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19 Temmuz 2026 04:27

Objects Along the Way – Part 6: The Underpass

Long before the national road existed, people crossed this landscape. The underpass simply allows them to continue.

"Eyes are more exact witnesses than ears."
— Herodotus, The Histories, Book I

Most people pass beneath this concrete structure without a second thought. Drivers travelling along the Northern Road Axis of Crete…

Süre

4h52m

Mesafe

30,7km

Hız

14,3km/h

Çıkış

590m

İniş

670m

, ve kişi bunu beğendi.

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