Describes an wonderful mountain day scrambling and climbing on the west ridge of the Peñón de la Mata in the Sierra de Huetor, N of Granada and the more popular Sierra Nevada. We had seen this ridge on our last visit to the Peñón de la Mata when we did a scramble on the north eastern [...]
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With the early closure of the Sierra Nevada ski lifts, we were presented with a sparkling opportunity for a grand ski tour on deserted pistes! Sometimes an opportunity presents itself. After a poor snow year with little quality ski touring the ski lifts at the Sierra Nevada decided it was time to close. Bad decision [...]
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Sometimes, quite by chance one comes across a gem. I had been on the summit of the Peñon de la Mata (1669m) before, but had failed to recognise the scrambling possibilities. This time there was to be no mistake. The 5 of us parked as close to the peak as we could get, which left [...]
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Guest writer, Ian Tupman, describes an hike to the summit of this wonderful peak in the foothills of Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains, just SE of the city of Granada. Not having done any serious hill walking in February and March, I wanted to get out and do a good leg and lung-stretcher before returning to [...]
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The little known Sierra de Huetor north east of Granada, Andalucia offers some really interesting and relaxed forest walking. In mid winter easy motorway access also offers the chance to enjoy superb snowshoeing terrain. We have been visiting the Sierra de Huetor since 2002. Mainly exploring and scrambling our way around the mountain ridges of [...]
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Ascend the highest mountain in mainland Spain and highest in North Africa in one week? If your time is precious then Mulhacen and Mt Toubkal await you! We have developed an itinerary to climb these wonderful peaks in the same week on the same trip. It is quite intensive both in travel and in trekking/mountaineering but is [...]
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We have just had a few days ski touring here in the Sierra Nevada with a group from Italy. We made the most of marginal conditions and skied on Veleta, Pico de Cartujo and the Picon de Jerez. On day one we set off from the Hoya de la Mora above the ski station at [...]
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What is it like to launch off and paraglide from the highest mountain in mainland Spain? Ian Tupman decided to find out! Ian continues………….. “Short video of a trip with my friend Rob on 23 and 24 January 2012. We walked up to the Poquiera refuge along the acequia alta, spent the night there and [...]
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The important mountain hut in the Sierra Nevada, The Refugio Poqueira, now has it’s own website that gives useful information on access, prices, how to book etc. You can find the new website at http://refugiopoqueira.com/ The Poqueira Refuge was opened in March 1997 and is located at an altitude of 2,500 meters on the southern [...]
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A summary of the weather high and lows, ups and downs, for September 2011 from the Alpujarras Weather Station based in Lanjaron is shown below. Highlights – the highest temperature was 32.6 (lowest 11.7 ). A total of 1.8mm of rain fell over 2 days. The highest wind gust was 42.5kmh. Previous year - the highest [...]
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