Richard Jones and John O’Connor from Ireland recently visited southern Spain and decided to try out some of the superb scrambles that Andalucia has to offer. This is their report. All photos by Richard Jones and/or John O’Connor “After our three day ski touring adventure our plan was to have three days scrambling around Granada ……….. Day [...]
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A report from Jens Foell of a 3 day combined ski tour and mountaineering route in the Sierra Nevada combating very cold and icy conditions, knife edge ridges and finishing in the dark. Jens continues…………….. “This year we had a big drop in temperature here in the Sierra Nevada at the end of November. This [...]
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A report of a superb winter mountaineering route in Spain’s Sierra Nevada along the long alpine ridge of Los Raspones, graded AD, accessible from Capileira. The route is not done often, even by the spanish (we know of only 1 other british party that have done the full ridge traverse in winter), so decided it [...]
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Tim Salter from Australia went up Veleta a few days ago with our guide Luis. He says……… “We had a great day. It was freezing on the way up (snowing for most of the way) and on top, but the sun came out as we headed down. Luis was fantastic, we went up to and [...]
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Report from our guide, Jens Foell as he ascends the highest mountain in mainland Spain in poor weather conditions. The weather forecast was looking pretty bad. Rain, rain, and yet more rain for the whole week. But Xavier Wang had come all the way from Singapore to climb Mulhacen, at 3482m the highest peak in [...]
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What better way to contrast the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada than with a few days at sea? As a mountaineer on a yacht I get that same feeling of wildness and remoteness, of being held in the grasp of natural forces, that I get when I am in the mountains. We recently met [...]
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Just half an hours drive from the busy Costa del Sol and you are in a different world where some great walking and hiking opportunities exist far above the sparkling waters of the mediterranean. Today we were climbing up La Concha (1243m), which is really an interesting series of lumps on a long rocky ridge [...]
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If you are looking for a good, quick access route to the northern Sierra Nevada mountains then we suggest you try out the Loma de Papeles route to the superbly situated Refugio Peña Partida. We recently revisited this old favorite as part of a search to see the rare Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture). It is a [...]
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A day walk in the Tabernas Deserts Sometimes you can get caught out by the weather, normally bad weather. But this time the weather was good, too good! Our day trek in the Tabernas desert badlands of Almeria turned into a very hot walk indeed. Due to the heat we don’t normally visit the deserts [...]
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The Paso de los Guias is a spectacular shortcut path cutting through a rockface in the Sierra Nevada and requiring a good steady head for heights. Links the Refugio Cariguela south of Veleta to the Paso de los Machos. It provides a quick by pass of the main track, cutting off a substantial zig zag [...]
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