Describes a multi day trek over the highest parts of Spain taking in the highest peak, Mulhacen and the remote and quiet fortress of Alcazaba. The route up the south ridge of Mulhacen from the Hoya del Portillo may not be the most exciting in the world but at least it gives a high start [...]
The heat necessitated an early start so by 9am we were high above Lanjaron in the Alpujarras and heading for the trail head forming the start of our ascent up the Cerro de Caballo (3009m). This mountain is in the SW sector of Spain’s Sierra Nevada and is generally quiet and free of the paraphernalia [...]
Little known to foreigners, and only a handful of locals, there is a way to cross the steep, seemingly impossible north and north west faces of both Mulhacen and Alcazaba in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains. These ways facilitate the crossing from the Col de Ciervo to Siete Lagunas and make the ascent of Alcazaba achieveable [...]
Describes the sources from where can you obtain reliable water when walking in the high peaks this summer or when trying to complete “Los Tres Miles” 5 day traverse of the main ridge. Water shouldn’t really be a problem after the wet winter just past, but the following should be a reliable guide even in [...]
Access Locations: (1) Hoya de la Mora (2500m). Follow the ski road from Granada to the ski town. Follow the signs left for œVeleta above the town and reach a car park at the road end. Good quick access for Veleta, Los Machos and Catujo sectors. Cariguela hut is 3hrs from here. (2) Cortijuela (1700m). [...]
The area called Lagunillas de la Virgen is only a stone’s throw from the ski paraphernalia of the Sierra Nevada ski restaurants at Borreguiles. Head SE from there (in July and August you can even get a lift to Borreguiles courtesy of the ski centre gondola!) and over a small pass at Collado de las [...]
When we dropped our trainee guide , Clive Fenn, off at a high trailhead at 9 in the morning we didn’t expect him back for 2 or 3 days. Certainly didn’t expect him to stagger, totally spent, into our house at 11pm that same night, after a mega tough 14 hour walking day in the Sierras, including about 2000m of ascent and 3000m of descent!
Andalucia’s Sierra Nevada lends itself to 2 or 3 day mountain trekking. There are high start points that give access to magnificent mountain scenery. For those with limited time available in Spain, these crossings of the range allow you to experience the mountains at their best. Spanish Highs Mountain Guides of Lanjaron, in the Alpujarras, have developed these crossings into a series of excellent adventures.
Mulhacen in the summer is a fairly straightforward, but long and hard trek up and down the south ridge. There is normally a National Park bus service operating during the summer months from Capileira, but this year the access may well be affected by old snow and ice patches lying across the track. The description [...]
The Sierra Nevada ski centre will open a main Gondola and the Veleta II chair for access to the mountains again this summer from June 26th until August 29th.
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