The "friends of Ikaria", volunteer-work vacation and trail marking on Ikaria

The Friends of Ikaria group “started its activities in 2015 in Brussels and aims to bring together Ikarians living on the island and ex-pats living abroad – as well as those people who like the island and have established a personal link with it”. According to their website, their mission is to bring together Ikarians living on the island and abroad as well as non-Ikarians who like the island and have established a personal link with it, wherever they may live.
Over the years, the group has been active and involved in various projects, one of which is voluntary work of trail marking on the island’s crazy-long trail network.

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This year, they are organizing once more a Volunteer Hiking Holiday! The idea is to create a 60 km long scenic hiking trail along the backbone of Ikaria, the ridge of the Mount Atheras, running all the way from the East to the West end of the island – the Transikarian Trail, also called Atheras Ridge Walk. OPSIkarias are in charge of this project, as they have started this voluntary work already some years ago and they are working on it on a continuous basis.