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Jen and I overlooking the Gorge

Jen and I had the great pleasure this past week of attending a leadership meeting in Greece. We stayed in the mountains of northern Greece in a quaint little village. Most of our time was spent training, meeting and learning but I did get one serious adventure in on this trip. Sunday all the guys went on a "hike". If you know me hiking (or anything outdoors) is not on my radar but I thought this would be a great opportunity to spend time with some friends and maybe relax, so a "hiking" I went (there was some serious peer pressure applied as my other choice was to shop with the women). When I hear the word hike, I think of a long walk in the woods, maybe a river to cross. Apparently when my colleagues say hike they are really saying "we are going to climb down a mountain walk four hours in difficult terrain at the bottom of a gorge and then climb back up about 3000 feet." - unfortunately I figured this out after we had hiked for 45 minutes and we came to a sign that said START. When half the guys came out with hiking sticks, boots, camel packs etc, I should have clued in that this may be a little difficult. By the end of our 12 mile hike I was exhausted, especially after climbing out of the gorge but it had been a fantastic experience and a great time with a great group of guys.
When I came out of the gorge Jen was waiting for me and told me there is a sign at the top of the gorge stating that the "Vikos Gorge" is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds deepest gorge (after some research I found out this is true and a gorge is different from a canyon. A canyon is wider and a gorge is more narrow. So as an example the Grand Canyon is deeper the Vikos but they are different). So not only did I survive the hike, I got to hike the deepest gorge in the world. That is an adventure worth noting (also worth noting, hiking the worlds deepest gorge only needs to be done once).