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Snowshoeing
‘We are all born, we all die, it’s what you do in between that counts’
Recollections of a hard trek to and from the Poqueira hut in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Difficult snow conditions and at times blizzard conditions made it an epic and at times very testing journey.
Latest access and snow conditions for ski touring and snowshoeing
The accesses from the south have been difficult lately due to the heavy snows. However in the past week we have experienced high temperatures down here in Lanjaron (17 deg C). This has helped the freeze/thaw cycle and we now have a considerable amount of consolidation with the snow pack. Avalanche danger still exists though [...]
Trevenque. The best summit in the Sierra Nevada?
Trevenque (2079m) is an old favourite. We have known this peak in all weathers, at all times of the year. It stands isolated and proud on the outskirts of Granada in the Cumbres Verdes range of hills. It is not linked by ridges to any other peak, has the ideal mountain profile and has one [...]
Snowshoeing on Veleta in deep snow
With few access tracks to the Sierra Nevada open we had to settle for the usual route up Veleta from above the ski town in the Sierra Nevada. The snow level was about 1500m. We parked the car at the Hota de la Mora (2500m) and set off, immediately requiring snowshoes to aid progress.
We made [...]
Descending Mulhacen with snowshoes
Just had a 2 day ascent of Mulhacen. We began at the best start point in winter which is the Cebadilla Electric plant in the Poqueira gorge. The ascent to the Poqueira Hut took 4 hours and we encountered tiring soft snow above Cortijo Tomas at 2100m. Fortunately, overnight the temperatures plumeted to well below [...]
Snowshoeing on Mulhacen. Fresh tracks in deep powder.
In the last 2 days our guide, Mike Elston, has been attempting Mulhacen with 4 clients. The heavy snowfall of the past week suggested that a certain amount of snowshoeing might be necessary. The first day on the approach to the Refugio Poqueira they found snow above Cortijo Tomas, which then became deep on approach [...]
Good snowshoeing and its mid-May!
Unbelievable but true. About a foot of new snow overnight down to 2400m and its 19th May! We started off from a snowy Hoya de la Mora at 9am and headed south for Veleta before donning snowshoes and dropping down leftwards into the San Juan bowl.
Good job we had the snowshoes on as the snowdepth [...]
Great skiing conditions
Deep snow last weekend enabled the ski centre to re-open after the official ending of the season. That means we get another weeks skiing. The snow is thick and deep above 2700m. We have been on Trevenque (2000m) in the Cumbres Verdes today, where the route over the summit was affected by powder snow. To [...]
Loads of Snow!
The recent heavy rain followed by Sunday evenings low temperatures left a large covering of the white stuff down to about 1800m. This has since retreated uphill but the whole situation for skiing and snowshoeing is much brighter. Above 2500m there is good cover and above 2750m, deep snow.
I took the attached photo today from [...]
Conditions on the north
The recent heavy rain and high temps has washed out snow cover below 2700m. Above 3000m there has been some significant falls of wet snow. Yesterday and overnight the freezing levels dropped considerably so that there is now extensive icing. Further low temps today and tomorrow should help consolidation.
Ski touring – still poor. Best cover [...]
