Alternatively, from the base of Roussánou's lower access path, descend the main road for just seven minutes until the first curve and then take the path signposted for Ayías Triádhos. Ten minutes' climb brings you to a ridge, beyond which lies the rugged canyon called Houní Ayías Triádhos. There's no way directly across this; instead bear left, following red paint-dots on the rocks, to climb more gently to a point on the circuit road about 600m shy of your goal – this won't save much time compared to the half-hour road-walk from Roussánou, but is far more pleasant. The final approach from the end of the lane down from the parking area of Ayías Triádhos (daily except Thurs: summer 9am–5pm; winter 9am–12.30pm & 3–5pm) consists of 130 steps carved into a rock-tunnel. You emerge into a cheerful compound with small displays of kitchen/farm implements, plus an old ascent windlass, but in lieu of labelling, maxims from Corinthians 1:13 appear everywhere: "Love is Patient", "Love Does not Criticize", etc. Few tour buses stop here, and life remains essentially monastic, even if there are only three brothers to maintain it.

The seventeenth-century frescoes in the katholikón have been completely cleaned and restored, fully justifying a visit. On the west wall, the Dormition is flanked by the Judgement of Pilate and the Transaction of Judas, complete with the thirty pieces of silver and subsequent self-hanging. Like others at the Metéora, this church was built in two phases, as evidenced by two domes, each with a Pandokrátor (the one above the témblon very fine), and two complete sets of Evangelists on the squinches. In the arch right of the témblon is a rare portrait of a beardless Christ Emmanuel, borne aloft by four seraphs; on the arch supports to the left appear the Hospitality of Abraham and Christ the Righteous Judge.

Although Ayías Triádhos teeters above a deep ravine and the little garden ends in a precipitous drop, an obvious, well-signposted path from the bottom of the monastery's access steps leads back to the upper quarter of Kalambáka. This 45-minute descent saves a tedious retracing of one's steps; it's a partly cobbled, all-weather surface in decent shape.